if there were no consequences. Average people darker shades of themselves that they do not reveal in public. However‚ when you let them hide behind a mask of anonymity‚ those shades pop out and take over. In the novel‚ the Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding portrays the lack of social order combined with a mask of anonymity people tend to perform cruel and savage acts. In the modern world‚ there are no limitations. With a mask of anonymity people act with savage and cruel intents. The modern age
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John Locke vs. William Golding When interpreting what Lord of the Flies is saying about society people tend to look at John Locke to make connections about what William Golding is trying to convey to us. John Locke believed that government was meant to keep society in order and prevent chaos‚ but in order for it to work‚ the people had to be cooperative. People have a natural right to life‚ rebel‚ and speak‚ everything under the U.S. bill of rights; he was fascinated by monarchies. In The novel
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“Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools‚ neither more nor less‚” said Henrik Ibsen. A society defines how people act‚ how people talk‚ how people live their lives. If society were to be destroyed what people would rely on to guide them. The definition of a society is the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. People‚ therefore‚ live together‚ their actions reflect how society is‚ society can react in millions of
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Contrast Essay Ralph‚ the protagonist and initial leader of the boys in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ attempted to retain civilization and order using logic and reason. Shortly after the boys elected Ralph as the leader‚ he thought about what needed to be done first. After some deliberation‚ he announced‚ “If this isn’t an island we might be rescued straight away. So we’ve got to decide if this is an island” (Golding 23). Ralph showed his ability to reason by proposing an exploration‚ as they
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Evan Howard Howard 1 Mrs. Shields Academic English 5-6 Orange 14 November 2010 Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a compelling novel about young boys trapped on a tropical island. Eventually throughout the story‚ the boys have many problems and end up splitting into two separate groups. Jack’s government is very different from that of Ralph’s. On the island
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In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ an airplane crashes on a deserted island‚ stranding a group of schoolboys. Ralph‚ a boy on the island is elected leader of the group‚ but is he a good leader? Ralph is a very good leader who knows how to take control. However‚ there are times when the group has some conflicts. There are many examples throughout the book that prove that Ralph is a good leader. One example of Ralph being a worthy leader is when he assigns Jack and his choir the job of being
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violence and monarchy. Some children start to rebel against the government they have created because they do not think it will help them survive. Throughout the book Lord of the Flies William Golding uses theme to demonstrate how human nature is revealed in times with no expectations. Throughout the book‚ William Golding continuously describes how much violence is used to solve problems. He shows the violence as fighting to resolve conflicts‚ when in
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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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similar concepts‚ my thought about thought—no pun intended of course— has become more complex‚ to say the least. Throughout our course of life‚ the way we think changes as we go through different points in our lives. This was briefly explained by William Golding in his article‚ The Way of Thinking. He smartly classified people based on their way of thinking and embodied the three groups in the statuettes found in his headmaster’s office—Venus De Milo‚ Leopard‚ and The Thinker. The first statuette embodied
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by strict definition‚ is a short tale conveying a clear moral lesson in which the characters are animals acting like human beings. A fable is intended to provide moral instruction and its characters and scenes are drawn to suit this purpose. William Golding has referred to his novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ as a fable. This essay will demonstrate that in the moral lessons it offers us and in the symbolic nature of its setting‚ characters and literary devices‚ the novel functions as a fable for the inherent
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