Nature of Humanity Lord of The Flies (1954) was written by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding and was first published in 1954.William Golding's novel is about a group of schoolboys and adults that are stranded on an island due to the plane crash during World War II and trying to rescue from the island. Ways of surviving on the island indicate the portrait of human nature and also reflect humanity. William Golding expresses his perspective; fear, loneliness and brutality in human nature through the novel by using the symbol of darkness. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses symbols of the darkness to represent fear. In Chapter Three, the beast was introduced by the little boy, who sees the beast in the middle of the night and start to spread the rumour, which make the society become more panicked. Because the kids
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In Chapter Seven, Ralph expresses “ Feels that the ocean is like an impenetrable wall”(P.115), Ralph uses the comparison between the island and an ocean to express his feeling. He can’t think of ways to escape from the island just like a boundless ocean that will never end. In the end of the novel, Ralph just realises after the death of Simon and Piggy, that he is left on the island alone, which means by he has no more friends or tribes who would listen to him and follow his directions(orders). "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy" (P.202), Golding’s description illustrates the feeling of Ralph, he was deeply regretful for the death of Piggy, and eventually Ralph became ferocious. As a result of the deaths of Simon and Piggy have given the children a powerful life lesson and Ralph finally descends into giving into the darkness of human nature and degenerate into
In Chapter Seven, Ralph expresses “ Feels that the ocean is like an impenetrable wall”(P.115), Ralph uses the comparison between the island and an ocean to express his feeling. He can’t think of ways to escape from the island just like a boundless ocean that will never end. In the end of the novel, Ralph just realises after the death of Simon and Piggy, that he is left on the island alone, which means by he has no more friends or tribes who would listen to him and follow his directions(orders). "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy" (P.202), Golding’s description illustrates the feeling of Ralph, he was deeply regretful for the death of Piggy, and eventually Ralph became ferocious. As a result of the deaths of Simon and Piggy have given the children a powerful life lesson and Ralph finally descends into giving into the darkness of human nature and degenerate into