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    deterioration in society. In The Lord Of The Flies when a group of boys are deserted on a remote island‚ they originally try to follow the societal values in which they learned in their homeland of Britain. Eventually‚ the boys lost all control over each other and even themselves because they forgot where they came from and what they stand for. The three main stages of societal deterioration seen in The Lord Of The Flies are the failure to duplicate British society‚ the breakdown of society into two factions

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    Abree Cox Sheehy 1/2 Orange Mental Breakdowns in Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book about the slow decay of order within a society that cannot sustain itself. In the story a group of young british schoolboys find themselves on an island after their plane crashes. The reader does not know the exact time period that the story takes place in‚ or even if it is supposed to take place during a real world event‚ but it seems to either take place sometime around the second

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    In ‘Lord of the Flies”‚ the author William Golding is being realistic with claim that all people have a natural evilness inside of them because it has been shown that without order many people would act out and because several people have easily impressionable personalities that only need a leader with wrong intentions to get them on the wrong path. A lack of authority and order can lead people to express the natural evilness that lies inside all of us. One example that proves this is our society

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    Lord of the Flies How does Golding develop ideas about order and disorder in the first 6 chapters of the novel? The main theme and concern in the novel Lord of the Flies is the conflict between civilisation and savagery. Golding develops this idea about order and disorder by using the two main characters Ralph and Jack‚ symbolism of the conch shell and foreshadowing to portray the instinct to live by the rules employed by the boys on the island‚ and value the group against their own desires‚ to

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    Good leadership is when a leader takes action and knows right from wrong. A good leader is someone who can lead the group and know how to protect the group from dangers. An example of good leadership in “Lord of the Flies” by William Golden would be Ralph. The reason I chose Ralph for good leadership is because when the plane crashed onto the uninhabited island causing the scar‚ Ralph began searching for other kids trying to form a group to survive and get rescued from the island. There are also

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    as someone who guides‚ leads or is in command of others. In many adventure and mystery books there is a leader. There are many different types of leaders‚ but either way‚ they have special qualities that make them important to the novel. In Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ a group of young school boys get stranded on an island. It is required of them to choose a leader that will be head of the boys and keep things in line so that they can all survive long enough to be rescued. The boys choose

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    Leadership is an essential quality in anyone‚ especially in those we choose to lead us. Like the leaders in The Lord of the Flies‚ our own world leaders try to do what they think is best for their people‚ sometimes in the wrong way. The leadership qualities in our leaders today reflect the qualities in the characters of the book; Jack shares aspects of Hitler’s leading strategies. A good leader must have certain qualities that will help them lead. These might include empathy‚ so the leader

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    Leadership in Lord of the Flies There are always people who come out with better qualities to be a leader than others. The strongest people however‚ usually become the greater influences in which the others decide to follow. However‚ sometimes the strongest person is not the best choice. In William Golding’s novel‚ “Lord of the Flies” Ralph though not the stronger person‚ shows better leadership qualities than Jack. Ralph displays these useful qualities as a leader by working towards building

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    The classic novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding revolves around a group of young boys from England that are isolated on an island after their plane crashed. With the pilot dead and no adults around it is up to the older ones to take charge. This Nobel Prize winning novel features four distinct characters; Piggy‚ Ralph‚ Jack and Simon. It is up to these boys to make all the difference on the island. In order for the boys to survive on the island while waiting for the adults to rescue them

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    With reference to Lord of the Flies‚ discuss how the sense of order deteriorates on the island in the course of the novel. Support your views with examples. In the book‚ various symbols are used to represent the establishment and the gradual fall of law and order on the island. The most important characters and symbols to be considered in this case are probably Piggy‚ Piggy’s glasses and the conch. The deterioration of the sense of order on the island is not caused by a single event‚ but is a step-by-step

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