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    William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel in which the inherent desire for ultimate power is highlighted by the clashing personas of the main characters. The fact that the boys are stranded on an island with no adults, thus leading to anarchy and disorder, exacerbates primitive desires present within the boys. An analysis of the protagonist Ralph, Piggy, and the antagonist Jack will ultimately prove Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, thus shedding light upon the notion…

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    Ralph and a few others. Then it ended as just Ralph against Jack and his group. Based of Good and Evil by the end Ralph is good and Jack is Evil. As said before, it is shown that Ralph is good and Jack is Evil. Ralph is good because he stands for civilization and all that is good like getting back to their homes to their family. On the other hand Jack…

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    In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the Lessing teaches the reader about setting and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry whose mother allows him to go explore the bay. He meets a group of local boys and ends up swimming them. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through an underwater tunnel. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else and leave Jerry alone. Upset and lonely, Jerry swims…

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    William Golding uses the theme that humans are naturally bad at heart, in the book Lord of the Flies to highlight that without the order and respect we choose to live our daily lives with our human nature will ultimately take us into chaos and savagery. Morals are what we choose live by, this is what keeps us in line. Morals do not appear overnight. Overtime they are ingrained throughout our childhood. Giving us a sense of right and wrong. Humans are not born with the idea of looking out for the…

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    SILK ROAD AND BEYOND Imagine a place where you can exchange ideas and goods from places such as Chinese, Persians, Somalis, Greeks, Syrians, Romans, Armenians, Indians, and Bactrians back in 114 BC –1450 AD. The Silk Road a heaven to most merchants and a dream to the most consumer.The Silk Road a network of connecting trading route that went from around China to Eastern Europe and was around ‎6,400 km in size.The Silk Road was a bunch of connecting trading Route that was Started by the Han…

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    personal beliefs and ended up becoming savages. In the novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, William Golding uses the conch to represent how the boys consciously and unconsciously, give the conch power, and bring a sense of authority and civilization. In the novel The Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows how when Ralph and Piggy found the conch they gave it power. Therefore when the boys were voting for chief, the boys, mainly picked Ralph because he had the conch. For…

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    William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, reveals the events that occur among young boys stranded without any adult supervision. It also portrays the constant battle between civilization and savagery. The whole idea is a spectrum with civilization on one side and savagery on the other. Depending on situations, even human beings of civilized communities could behave primitively. Young children are seen as a symbol of innocence, purity, and are portrayed as evil in desperate…

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    Lord Of The Flies Summary

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    Lord of the Flies The book “Lord of the flies” by William Golding is about a group of boys who are stranded on an island after their plane was, tragically, shot down. While they are on the island, the string that connects them to the outside world, and who they really are inside, is stretched to its limits and, eventually, severed. Without an adult figure present, they decide that they need someone to take charge. The kids end up taking a vote which gave this position to Ralph. With the weight…

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    that contributes the most to the deterioration of the civilization on the island is the pig hunt. The three stages in which the civilization deteriorates are as listed: the idea of pig hunting is proposed to the boys, a small population of the boys get obsessed with hunting, and finally, almost all of the boys are dedicated to hunting, but instead of hunting pigs, they hunt humans. In the first stage of the deterioration of the civilization, pig hunting is introduced and all of the boys are…

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    It is impossible to overestimate the importance of changes brought by the shift from Paleolithic to Neolithic era. The changes influenced not only the economic sector through the conversion from hunting prey and gathering food to farming plants and domesticating animals. It affected almost all of the spheres of human life including social organization and culture. The changes introduced were due to the economic factor that changing people’s core activities largely influenced their worldview,…

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