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    our imagination. One of the most critically acclaimed master of this art is Alfred Hitchcock. The movie describes the events that occur when a small town is attacked by vicious birds. The movie “The Birds” by Alfred Hitchcock has a deeper emotional weight with its audience than the book “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier because of Hitchcock’s deliberate use of setting‚ imagery‚ and mood in the cinematic experience. Alfred Hitchcock is known as a master of the cinematic arts for his preeminent style

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    person as being morally wrong or bad‚ immoral and/or causing suffering for others. Evil in the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding was an inborn trait of mankind. In this book‚ evil was seen as a main theme throughout the whole story. Golding saw no hope for mankind and believed that evil is always in mankind and sooner or later it will be expressed and no longer be subdued by civilization. The Lord of the Flies is a book about a group of children (some very young)‚ who become stranded on an uninhabited

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    Lord of the Flies Deep inside each individual is a psychological choice to be made between good and evil. In William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ this choice and its subsequent results are represented by Ralph and Jack. With no rules and no adults on the island to guide them‚ Jack gives into his evil desires. Whereas Ralph struggles to maintain a sense of humanity and constantly tries to strive to do good. Both started off as English schoolboys‚ but when left alone on the island human nature

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    Humans are naturally savage‚ but their savageness is under constraint by society. This means that people change when civilization is no longer around to constrain their savageness. In Lord of the Flies‚ there is no civilization when the boys are stranded on a jungle island and Golding shows that this allows savage behavior to take over. The boys then become savages and everything becomes chaotic. The constraints of society do not allow for savage behavior‚ and the society created by the boys on the

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    Lord of the Flies William Golding uses symbolism in his book Lord of the Flies to explain how a civilized society requires order‚ intelligence and morals to survive or we as humans would be no better than savages or even worse Nazis. William grew up and served during World War II. It was during the war that Golding realized that even the allies thought of as heroes‚ were becoming scoundrels by killing innocent lives in savage ways. After witnessing all the horrors and savagery that went on during

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    Lord of the Flies The book‚ Lord of the Flies‚ written by William Golding‚ was written after WWII. This book is about a group of young boys that crash into a deserted island. After a while‚ most of the boys lost all morals and returned to savagery and murder. The author gives the understanding in the theme that without rules‚ morals‚ and guidelines the human race will fall into chaos. This means that the human race would once again become savages. We see many examples of this type of savagery

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    Lord of the Flies is a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–1999.[2] Published in 1954‚ Lord of the Flies was Golding’s first

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    Lord of the Flies Typically‚ in western culture masculinity is traditionally constructed as a way to show physical superiority. Masculinity in society is typically shown through the physical body which shows that masculinity is generally constructed to be heroic and a dominant power. This is shown in the novel Lord of the Flies‚ the theme of masculinity through the physical body is used to gain power from the group of boys. Characters in this novel were made to show different views

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    William Golding’s Choice of Themes in Lord of the Flies In the fiction novel Lord of the Flies by the author William Golding‚ there are many themes. The two main and most important themes are Civilization vs. Savagery and Loss of Innocence. These two themes are shown throughout the length of the novel‚ and are an important part of the story. Civilization vs. Savagery is a struggle between the civilized world that the boys once knew‚ and the lawless dangerous savage island they have now been forced

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    Major themes War and human nature At the beginning of the novel‚ the boys are being evacuated from England by plane‚ presumably to keep them safe from the Cold War‚ which is in the future. The term "Reds" is mentioned (possibly giving the notion that the war was against the Soviets). However‚ there was quite a large amount of tension between the Soviet Union and the UK‚ or more particularly‚ Stalin and Churchill‚ during World War II‚ so "Reds" could simply show the British boys’ scorn for the Soviets

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