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    Lord of the Flies William Golding uses symbolism in his book Lord of the Flies to explain how a civilized society requires order‚ intelligence and morals to survive or we as humans would be no better than savages or even worse Nazis. William grew up and served during World War II. It was during the war that Golding realized that even the allies thought of as heroes‚ were becoming scoundrels by killing innocent lives in savage ways. After witnessing all the horrors and savagery that went on during

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    the play “A Man for All Seasons” by Robert Bolt the character Sir Thomas Mores characteristics are brought out by a couple of other characters in the play. Thomas More encounters characters in situations that really bring out the personality of Thomas More. One of these characters is Richard Rich. This character clearly helps the reader with understanding Thomas More better and better as they interact with each other in the play. This character contrasts from Thomas More by the way More believes

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    Lord of the flies – Text Analysis In what way is Lord of the flies a picture of society today? Lord of the flies is about a small society of boys formed by chance on an isolated island. The isolation from their parents and adults forces them to think for themselves and work together. William Golding shows a representation of society in his novel by including today’s issues such as violence‚ laws‚ power‚ greed and how easily civilisation can turn to savagery. In the boys lives before they were on

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    Lord Of The Flies: Regression of Humanity To go backwards in life means to regress; This is shown excessively throughout the novel Lord Of The Flies by William Golding. It is about young boys who strive to stay civilized but ultimately regress back into a savage phase‚ where their primal needs for food and shelter dominate. The breaking of the conch shell and the use of face paint and spears demonstrate the regression of the boys which is caused by a lack of law and order‚ and therefore ends

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    Lord of the Flies The book‚ Lord of the Flies‚ written by William Golding‚ was written after WWII. This book is about a group of young boys that crash into a deserted island. After a while‚ most of the boys lost all morals and returned to savagery and murder. The author gives the understanding in the theme that without rules‚ morals‚ and guidelines the human race will fall into chaos. This means that the human race would once again become savages. We see many examples of this type of savagery

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    William Golding‚ in his novel lord of the flies‚ implies that without the constraints of social order‚ people would descend into anarchy and chaos. Three examples in the text that demonstrate this idea are the conch‚ the character of jack‚ and the deaths of piggy and Simon. The conch is symbolic of the descent of social order between the boys. The conch is a shell that is capable of making a loud‚ attention grabbing noise‚ Piggy describes this noise by saying it “moo-ed like a cow”. It symbolizes

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    Lord of the flies Chapter 7 Page 119-120 Even though Ralph is the chief‚ he’s happy to follow Jack -shows Ralph has a sense of moral awareness ’If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return‚ if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny converts on either side‚ then there was a chance that you might put the best out of mind and dream for a while’ -Force of nature reflects emotion Ralph starts to think about hygiene and cleanliness -Looks

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    Lord of the Flies Deep inside each individual is a psychological choice to be made between good and evil. In William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ this choice and its subsequent results are represented by Ralph and Jack. With no rules and no adults on the island to guide them‚ Jack gives into his evil desires. Whereas Ralph struggles to maintain a sense of humanity and constantly tries to strive to do good. Both started off as English schoolboys‚ but when left alone on the island human nature

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    Humans are naturally savage‚ but their savageness is under constraint by society. This means that people change when civilization is no longer around to constrain their savageness. In Lord of the Flies‚ there is no civilization when the boys are stranded on a jungle island and Golding shows that this allows savage behavior to take over. The boys then become savages and everything becomes chaotic. The constraints of society do not allow for savage behavior‚ and the society created by the boys on the

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    Lord of the Flies There are many factors that determine how people conduct themselves in their daily lives. From the day people are born‚ they are governed by a set of laws that influence the way they live. Children are taught how to behave by parents or guardians‚ and adults are taught by the structures of society that keep people civilized with laws and order. In “Lord of the Flies‚” by William Golding‚ the author shows that without the influence of civilized society and law‚ people can revert

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