Allegory

In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies, he uses symbolism to express his ideas through items and characters. Symbolism is a process in which an author uses things or ideas to represent something with a larger meaning. In his book he uses things like glasses of one of his characters, a knife, a conch shell, a beast, and a fire. William uses items as symbols to represent the significance of human civilization vs savagery. William Golding was a British novelist and poet, who was born in 1911…

Blake and Dahl, the Bad Boys People are born both innately good and bad. Throughout history, there are figures that one can look up to as symbols of innocence as well as symbols of evil. Literature has attempted to explain the differentiation between the two, often in a religious sense. “Genesis and Catastrophe” by Roald Dahl was written in 1962 and evaluates the birth of the infamous Adolf Hitler. In William Blake’s “The Tyger,” the author ponders the difference between good and evil in god’s…

1 Six guardian and beneficent snakes at Edfu temple Ahmed KhalafAllah Safina∗ The scope of this paper is limited to the discussion of some lesser known aspects of six snakes at Edfu temple1. I aim with this paper to develop the understanding of these elusive beings through the examination of their nature, roles, names, and epithets. These snakes originally belonged to subordinate deities2 that had a beneficial and protective role with regard to Horus of Behdety…

It is clear that human beings are easily enticed to do things that we do not need to do. In Book 12 of The Odyssey, Odysseus is trying to get back to Ithaca when he is warned about an upcoming danger in their travels, the Sirens. Odysseus was instructed by Circe to give his crew earplugs out of wax and to have himself tightly tied to the mast. At the time when Odysseus and his crew encounter the Sirens, we are shown how becoming consumed by greed and losing self control in immersing oneself in a…

Writers use the world around them as inspiration. Accordingly, Chaucer was no different in this respect. This 14th century writer observed the death, disease, and senseless violence in the world around him, and exposed the world to these disturbing actualities in the severe, yet veiled spotlight of the page. Even more so than these grim themes of the world, Chaucer uncovers the jarring realities of the culture at the time. He eventually packs all of these medieval sensibilities into an epic poem…

Freedom is one of the nature liberties that everyone should have. However, the excessive freedom will cause the chaos to ruin the social orders. In the story of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of schoolboys are stuck on an island. They establish a peaceful society in the beginning, but the conflicts between the boys eventually result in the sorrowful ending that the island becomes a place where is filled with death and clutter. According to this story, the theme of freedom…

In order for a reader to understand a text fully, they must arrive at a balance between the author’s context and their own. The context of a novel is defined as “the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood” (www.oxforddictionaries.com) Knowing the context that the author wrote the novel in, helps the reader fully understand the issues discussed in the text with a deeper knowledge. Published in 1954, Golding’s…

The beginning scene opens as Ralph and Piggy meeting for the first time. As they find other stranded boys they find themselves in need of leadership. They elect Ralph, but as the story continues the boys find an inner fear, the beast. Even though it is all a figment of their imaginations. They turn gradually more savage as the story progresses. Leading to deaths such as Simon and Piggy. The boys formed a civil leadership at the beginning the fear inside them creates an inner fear that gradually…

Golding’s dark and provocative Lord of the Flies delves deep into the soul of man in a ruthless tale meant to explain the essence of why evil exists within us all, and how that evil is coaxed into action. In this insightful story, a group of schoolboys crash lands on an island during an evacuation in the midst of a future war. At first, all is well and order is established with assemblies guided by the elected Chief, Ralph, and the power of a conch shell, which grants the boys a turn to speak.…

Human beings are naturally born with a wide range of emotions, which they access in response to different situations. The loss of a favorite toy could trigger sadness, which is communicated via crying. The emotion that William Golding focuses on in his novel Lord of the Flies is fear. A group of boys is left on a deserted island after their plane has crashed due to the war. Although everything is fine at first, everything slowly goes downhill as they stop working together and start acting more…