because animals have instincts and humans have a conscious‚ we can not say animals have moral consideration. We are much more aware then animals and most animals are single-minded. Animal rely on primal need and humans are curious. The fact that we all are naked when born yet we cloth ourselves while animals don’t‚ should give an idea of the differences in awareness. Now I know we have people that treat their household pets like their children. Those animals still have their instincts but also are raised
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sets about building huts and thinking of ways to maximize their chances of being rescued. For this reason‚ Ralph’s power and influence over the other boys are secure at the beginning of the novel. However‚ as the group gradually succumbs to savage instincts over the course of the novel‚ Ralph’s position declines precipitously while Jack’s rises. Eventually‚ most of the boys except Piggy leave Ralph’s group for Jack’s‚ and Ralph is left alone to be hunted by Jack’s tribe. Ralph’s commitment to civilization
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Human nature has its own definition for many. What one considers to be human nature can include a person’s way of thinking‚ their emotions and behavior‚ but what is the core influence for these actions? Numerous philosophers have their convictions with respect to human nature and what is characterized as one’s self‚ however I discovered a considerable lot of their beliefs fundamental‚ for the purpose of my paper‚ I will refer to the ideas primarily by the customary Western logic in progress of Descartes
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point of what he’s trying to say in the piece. The use of the word “instinct” in the opening of line seventy nine the writer is showing that the Official is reverting to his military training and resorting to any means necessary to defeat the enemy. This is shown again in line eighty-one after he grabs the chair and thinks “It’s wood‚ good old fashioned wood” in my opinion the writer has used wood because it is ancient‚ it is primal‚ our ancestors used wooden spears and clubs to make their first kills
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into his primal urges and disobeys his civilized upbringing because of his constant rationalizations of the fact that they need meat but‚ in reality his interest in meat for the boys is clouded by his desire to kill. The garden of Eden references are also foreshadowing devices as at first the Garden is full of joy and laughter and then humans fall because of greed and temptation which is what happens to the boys at first they believe “this is a good island” but soon they fall to the primal instincts
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the ages by thinkers of all types Darwin‚ Watson‚ Freud‚ Meade and Paigets. They all came up with a different view of how we develop socially. How important are the roles of family‚ school‚ peer groups and the media on our personality development or is it all preordained and instinctual. There are two different theories of what happens in the beginning. Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud believed that human behaviors were biologically based‚ that we have instinct for human competitiveness‚ sexual
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destroyed by Roger when he pushes a boulder down castle rock colliding into Piggy who at the time was holding the conch. Piggy is murdered while the conch is smashed into smithereens. This gruesome event signifies the termination of the civilized instinct of almost all of the boys on the island. Piggy is the most intellectual and rational person out of all the boys and his glasses represent the power of science and intellectual endeavor in society. The glasses are used to start a signal fire on
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Soldiers on all sides of the war sacrificed their futures‚ only for history to repeat itself in the form of the second world war. The men that served in WWI gave up their humanity in return for a primal urge that consumed all rationality. Even after the war Germany was met with more struggles that only led to more death in World War 2. To this day “The war to end all wars” still impacts our lives. The current turmoil within Iraq is largely due to
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the island become less and less attached to social norms. Near the end of the novel the children have no shame in slaughtering animals‚ embracing violence‚ and using the ground they stand on as their own personal bathroom. Every human has a primal instinct lying within them but it is not a question of how close you are to acting on it but rather how well you control and cope with it. From the start of the novel Jack does not like abiding by any of the rules. He simply wants to hunt and have a good
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showing how the island could represent the world and the struggle between civilizing instinct and that of baser‚ more animal instincts and mindset of the boys‚ could depict the political ideologies and propagandas of certain countries or people. The most important theme of Lord of the Flies is the conflict between human urges towards savagery and the rule of civilization that is there to contain these animal instincts in the novel. This conflict is dramatized by the clash between Ralph and Jack‚ who
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