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    The Civilized VS. The Savage “If civilization is to survive‚ we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples‚ of all kinds‚ to live together‚ in the same world at peace.” (Franklin D. Roosevelt). In Golding’s Lord of the Flies there is battle for civilization. However‚ this battle takes place within. A group of young boys are left to fend for themselves on a deserted island where they find a beast. Golding portrays that there cannot be a functioning society if there

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    Lord of the Flies-Essay The novel Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ is an allegory looking at totalitarianism vs. democracy governing within humans. William Golding has two characters (Jack and Ralph) that he uses to exemplify totalitarianism vs. democracy. The two main characters represent the two different governments which lead to many arguments and other more severe conflicts between the two. The battle of the two governments on this deserted island is a small representation of what’s

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    Crystal Cordova Ms. Thoro Advanced 10th grade English 16 January 2013 Lord Of The Flies Essay In William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ we‚ as readers‚ learn about a group of British boys stranded on an island facing struggles and hardships. These boys are fighting between civilization or savagery. An important symbol that relates to this would be the conch shell. These boys are just children‚ but they know the difference between rules and civilization rather than savagery and

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    William Butler Yeats poem “The Second Coming” was written shortly after World War 1. Yeats was greatly affected by the events that took place during the war. He lived through a time where there was no faith in God. Yeats depicts a society that has lost its faith in God and is no longer stable. The author uses a dark diction to convey his theme throughout the poem. For example “The falcon cannot hear the falconer”(line 2) visualizes someone being lost. He uses falcon and falconer to symbolize god

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    William Goldberg’s Lord of the Flies addresses many themes such as good vs evil‚ technological advancement vs a state of primal being‚ and man’s desire to have power at any cost. Set on a stranded island‚ perhaps being a parallelism to the Garden of Eden‚ and loss of innocence which occurs on the island due to corruption and folly. The story is about a group of English boys trapped on an island that seems like all fun and games at first. Then the power starts to get to some of the boys and everything

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    Lord of the flies’ is an adventure story however it portrays a complicated and detailed storyline. William Golding utilises dialogue‚ in depth description of characters‚ illustrates a relationship between the novel and the bible and highlights the theme of good versus evil. By using a large amount of dialogue‚ Golding has created characteristics about the boys by the way they speak. Piggy uses slang showing that he comes from a low income family background‚ whereas Ralph speaks in a more proper

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    Important quotes‚ events Ralph 1) “boy with fair hair” 2) “mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclamined no devil” 3) “a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size‚ and attractive appearance; and most obscurely‚ yet most powerfully‚ there was the conch” 4) “all day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else.” 5) “the best thing we can do is to get ourselves rescued” -> PRIORITY 6) Ralph was a “specialist in thought” – “I cant think. Not like Piggy” 7) “The

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    English book William Golding Sir William Golding‚ author of ‘Lord of the Flies’‚ was a British novelist‚ poet and playwright‚ born 19 September 1911 at Cornwall. He grew up with his father Alec Golding‚ a socialist science teacher‚ his mother Mildred and brother Joseph. When he went to Oxford University he first studied Natural Sciences but transferred to English Literature and Philosophy which was much more interesting for Mr Golding. After his studies he was active as an actor‚ a writer and

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    could belong to a clique at school. I feel Ralph represented leadership and structure in Lord of the Flies. When Ralph was introduced into the story‚ I could already view him as one of those stereotypical athletes. He had the characteristics of a leader‚ which is probably why the kids voted him instead of Jack. He established himself as leader at the time he called the first meeting. He didn’t have to second-guess himself when it came to decide if he should be leader or not. There was something in

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    the multiple meanings in objects‚ people‚ or even the words in it. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a story which expresses Golding’s idea of man’s essential nature in humanity being evil. In the book‚ Lord of the Flies‚ there is hidden symbolic meaning in the characters and these symbols show that the characters represent archetypes in humanity that prove his idea of man’s essential nature being evil. In Lord of the Flies‚ the character Ralph represents order‚ leadership‚ and civilization

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