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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strong and is often referred to as a beast. Animals‚ out in the wild‚ use sex to show dominance in their clan or group. For example the rest of the walruses looks up the walrus that has a mate. Stanley is in this way an animal. He allows his primal instincts to take over. Therefore he is the dominant male in the household and must have everything his way. Around this time males are still looked upon as the “providers” for their families‚ therefore they had a higher position. Even without Stanley
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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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coined by Herbert Spencer and referred to in "The Gospel of Wealth" theory written by Andrew Carnegie. Childhood and Education Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury‚ Shropshire‚ England on 12 February 1809 at his family home‚ the Mount.[16] He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin‚ and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). He was
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William Golding’s “Lord of the flies” is a novel about group of boys who survive a plane crash and land on uninhabited island‚ where they must do what they can to live. The situation the boys are in‚ forces them to act and think radically‚ to form their own system of rules and to make hard decisions without any influence of adults. It is extremely shocking how they organize their new society‚ how they treat each other and what results their actions bring. Two main characters‚ Ralph and Jake‚ at the
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