Allegory

One pivotal moment in the fiction novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, occurs towards the end of the story’s procession when one the protagonist’s friends gets killed. In the early chapters of the book, you learn that a plane full of schoolboys crashes on an island. Without adults ordering them around, the boys of ages 6-12 joyfully spend their days playing at their free will. They select the protagonist, Ralph, to be the chief because he called them all to a meeting by blowing into a…

Ernest Hemingway’s Young Goodman Brown is an omniscient third person narrative following the diminishing of personal faith and the enlightenment of the evils behind those who deemed “good” around Goodman Brown. But what if it isn’t a dream and in fact more of realization of what the world truly consist of: sin. Brown was gives the example of a perfect Christian: from his teachings of catechism as a boy to his marriage to his beloved wife, Faith. He embarks on this journey to complete an unknown…

Does man naturally have brutality within them ? William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, creates a theme out of this question in his novel. Lord of the Flies is a novel about boys ages 6-12 that have crash landed on an uninhabited island during war time. It was written to show how Goulding believes boys would act is put into a similar situation without adults present. Some of the boys who were part of the crash land are Ralph the leader, Piggy the intellectual one, and Jack and Roger the…

Some think of fire as fearful and bad, others think of it as technology and useful, in some cases it can be both. In the book by William Golding, Lord of the Flies it is both. During the time of the war going on in Europe a group of boys are sent out in a plane and when the plane crashes disaster strikes the boys as they are stranded on an island trying to survive. Ultimately fire is a huge symbol in the book as it symbolizes hope, distress, and relief. At the beginning of they story the symbol…

Are humans truly superior to the world that surrounds them? In the poem “Evening Hawk” Robert Penn Warren questions humanity's ultimate dominance of the world, and instead suggests that nature is the judge of humanity's errors. Through diction and imagery the author creates a dark apprehensive mood and shows the fragility of mankind before nature. In the poem Robert Penn Warren uses specific diction in order to develop a dark mood of unease. By using words like “black”, “scythes”, and…

In the Lord of The Flies, a group of kids are stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean, and are scared of the unknown. The term beast is defined throughout the story as several different things. The following writing will show what the kids really feared. The beast is first thought of as fear itself. Document A shows that, “They externalize these fears in the form of a beast.” Document B also supports this statement when saying, “He must have had a nightmare. He says in the morning it…

Lord of The Flies, The Symbolization of The Beast How far can the mental figure of a beast go before it’s too much? Lord of The Flies takes place on a island in the Pacific Ocean during the second World War. After a British aircraft transporting school boys crashes on an island they’re faced with the task of surviving with the help of adults. They develop the figure of a beast that is used to represent fear, war, and the savagery of human nature throughout the book. Initially, the younger…

The quote “Wilderness needs no defense. It only needs defenders.” by Edward Abbey talks about that the wilderness shouldn't need its own defense, but should have people who support it and protect it from the people who do harm to it and the ones living in it. In certain ways the wilderness and its animals do have ways of defending itself. For example, when small animals take shelter in Joshua Trees when being attacked by larger animals the tree acts as a defence to the little animal. Another…

Written in 1954 by William Golding, Lord of the Flies is a novel written about British school boys who evacuated their school in England due to a bombing and attempt to reach safety on a plane but end up landing on a deserted island. Without any adults to help them, these young boys attempt to survive on the island. They gather around the protagonist of the novel, Ralph, when he blows on a conch shell, as suggested by an intelligent, yet portly boy named Piggy. The group elects Ralph as a leader…

Defects in One’s Own Nature Following the atrocities of World War II, William Golding believes “We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other”. Golding’s understanding of human psychology is greatly impacted by his experiences during World War II. The progressive degeneration of civilization and order can be seen through the six hunts, Jack’s totalitarianism, Simon’s ability to see the beast inside of them and Piggy’s intelligence. In the allegorical…