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    Jack is very manipulative and uses a figurative beast to create fear and obtain loyalty from the boys. Although the beast does not exist as the boys portray‚ Jack uses their naive character to his advantage. As Jack is demanding the boys to keep watch over the gates‚ they start questioning him and Jack reassures them by using fear‚ " ’-and then‚ the beast might try to come in. You remember how he crawled-’ The semicircle shuddered and muttered in agreement. ’He came-disguised. He may come again

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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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    Struggle For Power In the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ there is several times where characters struggle for power. The two main people who have the worst time in their struggle for power are Jack and Ralph. They both are very opinionated and have different outlooks on how the tribe should be ran until they are rescued. This often happens among newly created societies and this one in particular because they are all young boys. Jack struggles for power against Ralph in the beginning

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    In the story Lord of the Flies by William Golding there are many characters.Of the characters one of them stands out the most‚ being Jack firstly‚. He is a dynamic character in the story. Dynamic means that he changes throughout the story; he is also a round character.Jack is described as having freckles‚ blue eyes and red hair.Throughout the story he changes multiple times throughout the time on the island. Throughout the novel reveals that Jack often emerges as a bully toward Piggy and others.

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    Lord of the Flies. . . Lesson 1 Question 2: Asses the characters of Ralph‚ Piggy and Jack so far. At the beginning of the novel Ralph‚ Piggy and Jack are all lost children who fear being alone. The concept of no adults about seems to be both a cause of fear and relief among them. The absence of adults seems to promise freedom causing them to realise that they are now responsible for themselves and each other. Everything appears to be going well‚ however as the book progresses we see how each

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    Throughout the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ the protagonist‚ Ralph‚ has a top priority on the island to try his very best to maintain civilisation and order. Lord of the Flies is based on a group of boys who are stranded on an unknown island while trying to escape from World War II and having to fend for themselves. It’s a major challenge with many conflicts along the way and Ralph decides that the only hope of getting rescued and returning home is if some sort of organisation and

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    Written in 1954 “Lord of the Flies”‚ shows the fight for power that emerges when a group of school boys become stranded on an island; and how the fight for power will ultimately become their downfall. With all the chaos that emerges Ralph represents the order and‚ leadership of civilization. He is constantly trying to get the boys to work together to survive on the island; all while fighting with the savage beast inside him. Ralph is a “fair boy” and the perfect description of a British schoolboy

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    Character Sketch: Ralph   In the novel “Lord of the flies” by William Golding the main conflict is between ‘civilization’ and ‘savagery’. Therefore the character Ralph is another significant example‚ because he represents the human instinct. ` Ralph is a twelve-year-old English boy and the novel’s protagonist. He is the first character the reader gets to know. He blew the conch shell to ‘call’ the other boys who stranded on the island. That shows his human instinct to get a situation under

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    ’Explore Golding’s presentation of Jack in ’Lord of the Flies’ and their significance in the text as a whole’ In this essay I will be looking at how Golding presents the character of Jack. Written after the chaos of the second world war‚ Golding uses Jack as a way to portray evil in the novel and he has many similarities to powerful world war 2 dictators. Concentrating on how Jack changes throughout the novel as the boys descend into savagery‚ specifically looking at the beginning‚ middle and

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    For the 1963 film‚ see Lord of the Flies (1963 film). For the 1990 film‚ see Lord of the Flies (1990 film). For other uses‚ see Lord of the Flies (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Lord of the Flies LordOfTheFliesBookCover.jpg The original UK Lord of the Flies book cover Author William Golding Cover artist Anthony Gross[1] Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Allegorical novel Publisher Faber and Faber Publication date 17 September 1954 ISBN ISBN 0-571-05686-5 (first edition

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