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    Lord of the Flies” (Lord) clearly portrays the philosophical issues raised during the first four weeks of this class. Transitions in the story move from the social rigidity of a pre-crash political society to the establishment of an initial form of community and the subsequent breakdown of the political and moral order on the island. While the story conveys and illustrates the breakdown of political society and its reversion to a state of nature‚ “Lord” requires an understanding of the context

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    significance of the Beast and the Conch in ‘Lord of the flies’ Golding uses many symbols to get across his ideas in ‘Lord of the Flies’ but primarily uses the Beast and the Conch as one of the two main symbols that are essential in the development of the novel itself. The Conch and the Beast represent order vs. chaos that this novel is about so they are very significant and important things in the ways Golding gets his ideas to the reader of Lord of the Flies. The Conch is one of the most powerful

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    With proof from the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding I can say a person’s environment factors into their overall attitude‚ people naturally have evil thoughts‚ but will rules around them they are good. At the beginning of the book on page 38 Ralph says “Shut up! What! Listen!”. From the start of the look Ralph has felt power and the slight change of letting go of rules and becoming his natural evil controlling self. Ralph wants to keep order and the only way to keep order is with rules.

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    In Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ conflict between two instincts of civilization and savagery is the driving force of the novel‚ explored through the dissolution of the young English boys’ civilized moral behavior as they accustom themselves to a brutal barbaric life in the jungle.  As conflict rises between the groups of boys‚ a theme of polar opposites such as good vs. evil‚ order vs. chaos can be seen through the young men’s transparent demeanor. The central concern of Lord of the Flies

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    Lord of the Flies EXPOSITORY ESSAY FINAL COPY Lord of the Flies” by William Golding is a dramatic novel filled with irony‚ fear and truth. It touches on many issues surrounding government‚ Christianity and democracy. The book focuses on society and through its effective use of conflict‚ gives us an idea what life would like without rules and civilization. The novel tells a story of a plane filled with British school boys that crashes on a deserted island during World War 2. The boys‚ struggling

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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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    civilization; evil tyrants that manipulate the power of fear so that their subjects are forced to succumb to their rule and authority; and finally the intellects with their sheer brain power and keen thinking to convey ideas of how society ought to be governed. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ the characters of Ralph‚ Jack‚ and Piggy are attached to symbols to convey their authority‚ which can represent different types of leadership and power in modern civilization. Ralph is one who rules

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    Lord of the Flies “Maybe there is a beast...maybe its just us.” This is a quote from the book “Lord of the Flies‚” by William Golding. As an outstanding Author‚ William Golding won the Nobel Prize of Literature and the Man Booker Prize. The book “Lord of the Flies‚” written in 1954‚ is an incredible book and an allegory about a large group of boys who get stranded on an island. The reader can see how people‚ or in particular‚ boys‚ will behave‚ when away from society. Some of the boys: Ralph

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    to chaos. The biggest fears in the book were fears of dying and the fear of the unknown. Every body in the book had their own way of expressing their fear and what they had a fear of‚ but it was in everyone. In William Golding’s book The Lord of the Flies‚ fear is what eventually causes them to turn against each other until they are so paranoid about the beast that they kill one of the boys on the island thinking it is the beast. The first boy Jack feared the beast and thought that

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    Select one chapter from Lord of the Flies and assess its importance to the novel as a whole. <br> <br>‘Lord of the Flies’ is about what happens to a group of schoolboys when they are abandoned on an island following a plane crash. Chapter eight ‘Gift for the Darkness’ has much significance in the novel‚ as it is here that Simon converses with ‘The Lord of the Flies’. Jack separates himself from Ralph’s group‚ showing that Jack has now been consumed by evil. The signal fire is moved and now there

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