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    Lord of the Flies and Laws

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    to answer this question‚ using ‘the lord of the flies’ as reference throughout. Laws are those things that always surround us‚ almost wherever we go‚ they aid us‚ protect us‚ give us a sense of security and pretty much stop all those people that usually need to be kept in line. Laws are pretty much an extremely important set of rules that can have enormous consequences; in the move ‘lord of the flies’ there are two main characters who represent the two different sides of rules‚ Ralph and Jack‚ Ralph

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    Lord Of The Flies Themes

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    Lord of the Flies is a castaway fiction written in the early 1950s‚ in Salisbury England‚ by author William Golding. A group stranded schoolboys battle the elements and other factors that hinder there survival on a deserted island. In the excerpt the boy display their innocence and high expectations by the use of nescience‚ naivety‚ and character actions. The boys’ innocence and their high expectations can be on display by their nescience. When Piggy raises the question of who knows their location

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    the Lord of the Flies though‚ it’s quite the contrary. They kill because they can and enjoy doing it. Not out of mere survival. Another connection that I made had to do with the theme of the book‚ the evil inside everyone. The natural tendency to become savages if not tamed by a civilization that demands us to do so. We see this today all over the world. Any war is a result of this evil inside us. If this evil didn’t exist‚ then there would have been no need for war. We

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    There are various themes within the dehumanized novel Lord of the Flies‚ yet even though Golding gives an indirect cogent to make the themes of speech and silence prominent‚ they show the strongest divide between civilization and savagery.Verbal communication or speech‚ is most commonly displayed as a prominent property of civilization ‚while bestiality is non-verbal‚ or silent. This is shown when jack is beginning to show his barbarity‚ by hunting anomalistically in the forest‚ where even him‚

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    Lord of the Flies (Simon)

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    Kayque Rodrigues Ms. Post English 4 (Honors) 10 - 27 - 12 Simon’s Stigmata  In William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ the character Simon portrays many characteristics similar to those demonstrated by Jesus in the bible. He is shown to have all the qualities that Jesus has: determination‚ intelligence and resilience. Even his physical appearance portrays Christ since he is skinny and not much of a tough person. Simon was very calm and caring for others‚ especially with the little

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    Throughout the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ the conch is thoroughly known for the loud noise it makes when it has been blown into. However‚ there are many other interpretations that people may have about it. To begin‚ one can clearly see that the conch can be deciphered as something to bring democracy at the start of the novel. For example‚ Ralph used the conch to call everyone on the island and assemble. This shows how the conch had created a democracy because after Ralph used it‚ he was soon elected

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    William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies is like most other books in the sense that his characters change over the course of the novel. However‚ in The Lord of the Flies‚ this change is especially visible. In addition‚ it is visible in almost every character in the book. In Ralph‚ this change can first be seen in the beginning of chapter five: Beast From Water. Previously‚ Ralph was depicted as all the other boys were- someone who wanted to have fun. But after they missed potentially being rescued

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    ego is not master in its own house.” -Sigmund Freud This quote by Sigmund Freud explains how the decisions of the ego are not made on its own. The ego has the super-ego and the id telling it what to do‚ and the ego has to balance out what they both want. The ego may make the final decision but the super-ego and id are the ones putting in their opinions. In the book “The Lord of the Flies” certain characters help to represent part of Sigmund Freud’s theory of the id‚ ego‚ and super-ego

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    when discussing Jack‚ from “Lord of the Flies”. In contrast to the first part‚ the second part‚ known as the super ego‚ or “the angel on you shoulder”‚ can best be used to describe Simon‚ who represented the rules that were made to be followed by everyone. Finally‚ the ego‚ or the one who could best understand and make sense of different ideas‚ could potentially be Ralph. Sigmund Freud also believes that all people commit acts of evil. From Goldings‚ “Lord of the Flies”‚ it shows that Sigmund Freud’s

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    but while they were flying in their plane crashed and landed on a deserted island (Knowledge n.pag). The only survivors of the crash were children and they had to survive on the island alone (Knowledge n. pag). They elected the character Ralph as the leader of the group and the character Jack Merridew as the leader of the hunting party‚ which was made up of his choir group (Knowledge n. pag). Both Ralph and Jack want to be leaders of the island‚ but because they each have different ideas of what is

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