you. Do not summarize the novel in your response – instead‚ be sure to provide proof by stating brief and specific examples. Be sure to CITE your research sources. I strongly recommend http://www.shmoop.com/lord-of-the-flies/ for this assignment. 1. The characters in Lord of the Flies are archetypes. What groups or types of people did certain characters or groups of characters represent? 2. In what ways does Golding make the story believable? 3. Choose at least three of the following
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Mr. Lindhurst English 11 3 Mar 2011 Simon In all humans‚ there is some form of evil. This theme is expressed throughout the novel of Lord of the Flies. The only character to realize this is Simon. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies‚ nature resembles the unfortunate events to come and the character‚ Simon‚ foreshadows these events. When Simon is introduced in the beginning of the story‚ he is fainting. Physical weakness becomes a hallmark of his character‚ from
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The work of Lord of the Flies by William Golding presents the idea that anyone without strong security can devolve into anarchy. The boys at the start of the book use school paradigm of rules and regulations to create order. These values are eventually destroyed when they begin to worship false deities through the beast and showcases how religion is never a blessing but a curse. Their microcosm of society reflects the powers of a cult that caused the boys to lose their innocence in the form of their
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Blake Dunkleberger P-4 10/5/12 Lord of the Flies Essay William Golding believes that every human is born evil and can only make themselves less evil by performing good works. Lord of the Flies shows the belief of natural wickedness in humans and how some will try and stray away from that natural evil. Two characters from the book‚ Ralph and Piggy‚ both try to run away from their natural evil and create a more civilized‚ humane form of society on the island. Ralph and Piggy are more than boys
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compose his most famous novel‚ Lord of the Flies. Shortly after their plane crashes on a solitary island‚ a group of English school boys attempt to maintain order and civilization. Ralph‚ the chief of the group‚ struggles to gain power and leadership from his followers‚ especially‚ the defiant‚ violent boy named Jack. Throughout the years‚ critic’s have argued that the novel is a religious allegory that has numerous biblical allusions within the work. Lord of the Flies is‚ in fact‚ a religious allegory
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novel entitled Lord of the flies was been distinguished because of its religious allegory and it was believed that some scenes and characters were been extracted in some biblical parables and episodes. The author of the novel‚ William Golding‚ emphasized that human has inner evilness which could lead for that certain individual to perform evil acts to other people. It just only explains that evil is innate to every human being and it was said that human has the tendency to execute evil acts if one would
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Savage‚ fierce‚ violent‚ and uncontrolled. That’s what Jack was in the novel Lord of the Flies. The author William Golding showed cultural collision in the novel Lord of the Flies by introducing characters that became more and more savage and wild throughout the course of the novel. One of them was jack. Jack throughout the novel showed violence‚ an example is when he hunted and killed pigs. In chapter one page twenty-seven jack doesn’t quite kill the pig and it starts his obsession of hunting and
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Flies What is being said about power and how is it being said? Power can change people in a way that is incomprehensible either for good or for evil. Power can make one so greedy that someone will do anything for it and won’t let anyone‚ or thing stand in their way. Macbeth by William Shakespeare portrays both the positive and negative uses on Power through the main characters. Macbeth’s greed of power allowed him to exercise abuse and ultimately he was corrupted and destroyed by power. Lady
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William Gaddis said‚ “Power doesn’t corrupt people‚ people corrupt power.” In the novel‚ The Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ we see power become corrupt by men‚ or in this case‚ young children. When a plane full of young British boys crashes on an island‚ the plane not only leaves a scar‚ but the plane leaves innocent‚ vulnerable young boys alone to survive on their own. The young boys had nobody to go to for comfort‚ to the boys it was a utopia‚ that is until their mind took over. David Cuschieri
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We are all born with evil and good intensions and we have cilvilisation and law to keep our good intension and keep our bad intensions out. In the book Lord of the Flies writen by Sir William Groulding there are many details that show this. For example when Jack one of the main characters says in the beggining of the novel “we will have rules and obey them. After all‚ we are not savages we are English and the English are good at everything.” Yet he is the one to break his own rules. When the narrotator
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