In the fictional novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of school boys are trapped on an island due to a plane crash. The boys struggle to maintain peace and order amongst themselves because of the immense chaos created by the beast on island. The disorder leads to the death of two boys, Simon and Piggy. Likewise, in the movie The Maze Runner, directed by Wes Ball, several boys are trapped in a small area called the Glades by the organization WCKD, World Catastrophe Killzone Department. The boys also fight to maintain peace with one another because of the fear that the maze and the Grievers creates within them. The idea of a microcosm is symbolically represented in both the novel and the movie. A microcosm is a smaller representation
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Towards the end of the movie, Ava Paige reveals to the kids that “the sun has scorched [their] world. Billions of lives [were] lost to fire. Famine, suffer on a global scale. The fallout was unimaginable. [But] what came after was worse” (Ball). She claims that in the real world, a flare had emerged. The flare is a deadly virus that attacks the brain literally but figuratively, it is the loss of humanity. It is when a person becomes a complete savage and loses their ability to think clearly. Similarly, on a smaller scale in the Glades, the Grievers sting the boys. They call it “The Changing” and it makes them violently dangerous to the point where they become inhuman. The boys’ struggle in the Glades represents a microcosm of the struggles in real life. The Grievers are a fear of death and a rising problem that emerges amongst the boys, just as famine and diseases are deadly and problematic amongst people in the real world. For hundreds of years, man had to fight the unbeatable fight of diseases such as typhoid, malaria, smallpox, measles, and polio. Thankfully, modern medicine has made it possible to cure these horrific illnesses. Modern medicine is parallel to the people who had escaped the Glades to help the real
Towards the end of the movie, Ava Paige reveals to the kids that “the sun has scorched [their] world. Billions of lives [were] lost to fire. Famine, suffer on a global scale. The fallout was unimaginable. [But] what came after was worse” (Ball). She claims that in the real world, a flare had emerged. The flare is a deadly virus that attacks the brain literally but figuratively, it is the loss of humanity. It is when a person becomes a complete savage and loses their ability to think clearly. Similarly, on a smaller scale in the Glades, the Grievers sting the boys. They call it “The Changing” and it makes them violently dangerous to the point where they become inhuman. The boys’ struggle in the Glades represents a microcosm of the struggles in real life. The Grievers are a fear of death and a rising problem that emerges amongst the boys, just as famine and diseases are deadly and problematic amongst people in the real world. For hundreds of years, man had to fight the unbeatable fight of diseases such as typhoid, malaria, smallpox, measles, and polio. Thankfully, modern medicine has made it possible to cure these horrific illnesses. Modern medicine is parallel to the people who had escaped the Glades to help the real