Although this foreshadows Jack’s totalitarianism and dictatorship‚ it still shows the typical characteristics of a typical teenage boy‚ wanting to take on leadership roles and smiling whenever possible. However‚ as Jack becomes obsessed with hunting pigs and eventually putting on the mask‚ he turns savage and gruesome beyond return. The fact that he uses a spear to attack Ralph immediately after Piggy’s brutal death shows Jack has completely lost his rationality and sense of human being. In the early
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In The Lord of the Flies‚ there are many tragedies‚ the death of Simon when he was mistaken for the beast‚ the death of Piggy and the conch‚ their only symbol of authority‚ being broken‚ and ultimately the loss of innocence in the boys. The tragedy most people refer to in the book is Piggys death and the broken conch‚ for this reason I will be comparing the three main characters and what they could have done to prevent this tragedy. Ralph is‚ of course‚ the first character we meet in the
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with full intention‚ he hurled his spear at Ralph” (181). Another character is Simon who signifies a Christ figure. One of the way he embodies Christ is confronting the devil‚ which in the book was the lord of the flies. The lord of the flies was a pig head sacrifice that the hunters left for the beast. Simon confronted the “devil” when is started to talk to him try to persuade Simon to “get back to the others and we’ll forget the whole thing” (142) because they can’t escape the beast for the beast
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represents all of the boys‚ as they do not yet believe in the beast and all still enforce the law. But‚ when a little boy says he saw a beast‚ Jack replies‚ “... There isn’t a snake thing. But if there was a snake‚ we’d hunt and kill it. We’re going to hunt pigs to get meat for everybody. And we’ll look for the snake too-” (Goulding‚ 36). When fear starts to strike the boys‚ their savagery inside starts to show. Jack‚ hearing the story of the beast‚ has already started to think about hunting and killing. Civilization
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on in the playground. He is fat and has glasses these are seen as weaknesses. He nether the less is included in the main group‚ somewhat reluctantly by Ralph‚ because his glasses are the only way the boys can make fire‚ which is needed to cook the pigs the boys kill‚ in order to survive. Piggy uses this to try to gain a certain respect from the other boys. The story is about the power play between Ralph and the ’leader of the choir ’. The choirboys end up displaying all the worst attributes
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By manipulating the boy’s fear of the beast‚ one can exploit their weaknesses and influence their behaviour to benefit his individual desires. Throughout the story‚ Jack recognizes the boy’s fear of the beast‚ and uses it to his own advantage. For instance‚ “my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who will join by tribe?” (Golding 166). Jack reminds the boys that his tribe of hunters are capable of keeping them safe from harm. He uses the knowledge of the boy’s fear and his capability of protection
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The Lord of the Flies was a very interesting book. It was about these kids stuck on a island. The first boys to be on the island were Piggy and Ralph. They were just walking and talking about who they were and were they were. As they were walking Piggy found a shell. He was very happy to have found that shell he sounded it and told Ralph that they could use that to bring up others boys to where they were. When they were sounding it a lot of boys came out of the trees and came towards Ralph and Piggy
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Mini text assesment 3b Aakash Thornton The theme of lord of the flies is to not stop at anything to reach your. This theme is developed by charecters setting and plot. The lord of the flies is a story about a bunch of castaway kids. These kids had esablished a leader ‚Ralph. Thay also have a bunch of hunters led by Jack Merridew. First is the theme of the book‚ not stopping at anything to reach your goals. Ralph who was voted
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel‚ where a group of young British boys are lost on an island after their plane crash lands. Throughout the novel William Golding utilization of literary devices are in place to reveal a theme of the novel‚ civilization and innocent are destroyed due to the savagery of the boys’‚ desire for power‚ and fear of the unknown. William Golding utilizes three important literary devices throughout the novel‚ symbolism‚ of when the conch is destroyed civilization
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show that they were drawn to her death like a magnet. They did not hesitate to kill her‚ considering they became violent so quickly we know that they are heading towards savagery. Also‚ when “Roger ran round the heap‚ prodding with his spear whenever pig flesh appeared”(135) the reader knows that the hunters are not
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