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Over centuries, humans have butchered their own kind and destroyed the environment around them. William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” focuses on the true nature of the human kind: evil. The evil of the human nature has been disguised and covered up by the civilization that humans live in. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the island paradise where the boys land without adult supervision makes them drop the camouflage of civilization and devolve to the stage of their animal instincts…

The character I chose from the book The Lord of the Flies, was Piggy. Piggy wasn’t like the other kids, Piggy was nice and responsible. The other characters of the book, for example, let's take Jack, he was very aggressive with a bad attitude and wanted everyone at his feet. Piggy did many things for the boy, including Ralph, but Piggy beat both of them. Piggy had been bullied back in his old school, but that really only made him stronger. After he told the boys the names they would call him…

Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel filled with numerous symbols, including the conch, the sow’s head, and Piggy’s glasses. Each symbol serves its own purpose and helps support the numerous allegories Golding creates throughout the novel, such as the political allegory. Together, all the symbols support Golding’s underlining meaning of the story, civilization vs. savagery. Though some symbols play a larger role than others, they all work together to create a standard for authors and…

How can one symbol represent two completely opposite ideas? Just such a representation can be seen in Lord of the Flies, where fire changes from a useful way to get rescued to a destructive instrument used to brutally murder each other. As nuclear war rages, a group of English boys are shot down while flying over the Pacific Ocean and find themselves abandoned with no adults or any sign of authority. The boys are forced to create a liveable society until they can be rescued. As the boys remained…

say that in order to discover a man’s true nature, one must give them power and see how they treat their subordinates, not their leaders or their equals. Without the societal programming imprinted in one’s mannerisms and morality, the characters of Lord of The Flies by William Goulding descend into anarchy and savagery by the victory of human desire for advancement and self-interest by all means. Promptly, the character Roger discovers his violent tendencies and the pleasure he achieves from…

William Golding's book, Lord of the Flies, talks about how without any true government, people dark human nature will eventually take over. Sigmund Freud has a theory where there are only three main personality a human has. The Id represent a character that wants to rule over everyone, he doesn’t care what he has to do but he is constantly fighting to have his way(Journal Psyche). The Ego is the everyday human being that is just trying to get through life (Dunkerly-Bean). Then the Superego is…

What would you do if you were stranded on an island and a kid was your leader? Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, was written during the Cold War; however it was based during World War II. Ralph is a 12 year old leader, a major character in the novel, and allegorically represents civilization. The author William Golding was born on September 19, 1999 and died June 19, 1993. Ralph believes in leadership, disagrees with Jack on how the group should be led, and embraces that he is…

In the book Lord of the Flies, many main characters were introduced showing their personality and how they could impact society. One of the main characters introduced in the first chapter was Ralph. He is bossy, adventurous, and also has hopes of getting rescued. Ralph would help the society tremendously because of his leadership skills along with his bravery. He shows bravery because he wasn’t afraid to go and adventure or search the mysterious island they were on. Piggy is also one of the main…

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Jack represents the shift from innocence to savagery. The author describes Jack as a tall, thin, bony male with blue eyes. He also has red hair and a face that is crumpled and full freckles. Jack is head chorister and leader of the hunters in the novel. The role of the hunters are to gather food for the rest of the tribe. The character traits that show Jack’s change are ignorance, jealousy, and cruelty. Jack shows his ignorance by…

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph, Jack, and Piggy lose their identities on the stranded island causing destruction and disaster. While discussing about the beast, Simon describes a loss of identity through the beast when he says, “what I mean is… Maybe it’s only us” (Golding 89). This shows that Simon was no longer identifying the other boys the same as he was when they first arrived on the island. This idea is important because it proves that characters were noticing the changes…