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    Flies by William GoldingSimon is portrayed as someone who represents and has a deep connection with nature which allowed him to do and understand things which most of the characters in the novel were not capable of. He understood the situation they were put in and they had to use their recourses on the island wisely by keeping a balance between taking and giving and understood that abusing these resources would result in consequences which in this case was Simons death. Simon is demonstrated

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    Pandey D t ‚FABLE TO MYTH’IN THE NOVELS OF WILI.IAM GOLDING "l r * Prakash Bhadury prakashbhadury@grnail.com I I f Witiiu"n Golding as a novelist is unique among the contemporaries of 50s and he continues to be one of tre most popular novelists in the present century for his consistent argument with human values. Golding is termed as allegorical novelist‚ fabulist‚ anthropologist of imagination and a myth maker. The present paper seeks to find the fabulist as myth

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    In the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses his trademark descriptive way of writing his stories to describe the scenery of the island‚ the appearance of the boys and their behavior‚ and the beast that is claimed to share the island with the boys. Golding uses this imagery to create a visual picture for the reader‚ so they can feel as if they’re seeing the events in person‚ and to have a better understanding of the book and Golding himself. The descriptions he uses to describe the boys

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    The Ways That Golding Presents the Island Setting of “Lord of the Flies” William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1954. It tells the story of a group of young boys who are stranded on a previously uninhabited island with no adults around to save them. Golding used the idea of an island as a blank canvas backdrop in several ways which greatly enhance the effectiveness of the story. The island has no other humans on it‚ and shows no signs of man ever living there before. The landscape is perfect

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    In this extract all of the boys take part in the murder of Simon. Simon is described as ‘the beast’ during his killing. Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel‚ the death of Simon also symbolises the death of spirituality. After his brutal death Golding describes ‘his check silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble’ this almost romantic description is an emblem of Simon’s purity. The setting is a frightening one. It is night time‚ but not completely dark as there are ‘flashes

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    WORDS How has Golding used silence and language to enhance the story? Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel where silence and language is used as a medium to communicate among the boys on the island. Language is used as a form of civilization but as the days go by the language starts to depreciate person by person along with the need of civilization. Language and silence are also used to foretell future events in the novel. ‘The conch was silent.’ Here Golding uses irony

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    How does Golding introduce Piggy‚ Jack and Ralph? Golding introduces Piggy as an intelligent and more matured boy: "Nobody don’t know we’re here - We may stay here till we die" Piggy‚ unlike Ralph‚ is more aware of the situation and is focusing on the importance of no adults on the island. Piggy is shown looking on the logical‚ mature side of the situation whereas Ralph‚ much like most of the other boys they meet later‚ are excited about living with no rules and no adults. As Piggy therefore seems

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    rescue‚ out bad things happen. Golding uses the twins seeing the “beastie” when the fire goes out and how “flames blew fifteen yards away from them came the flapping of fabric blown open.” to display that when the fire goes out. A second example is when Golding has a boy report a ship passed by when the signal smoke goes out in chapter 4‚ to exhibit that the boy’s need to keep the fire‚ their life‚ alive if they want to get rescued. A third example is when Golding utilizes the boys building the signal

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    allegory “Lord of the Flies” Simon‚ a major character‚ reflects Jesus Christ because both have similar events happen to them. As similar events occur the reader can also theorize that Simon and Jesus share similar traits . First‚ there are many biblical parallels in the allegory‚ “Lord of the Flies” written by William Golding. The confrontation with Simon and the Lord of the

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    Even when we don’t know it‚ we are either influenced by symbols‚ or are helping those symbols influence others. Without the use of symbolism‚ a culture or society cannot continue to stand. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies shows how symbols are created‚ and how those symbols become powerful. Three of the symbols he uses are the conch‚ the pig’s head on a stick‚ and Piggy’s glasses. The first symbol we come across is the conch shell. It is a beautiful shell that Piggy and Ralph find lying

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