Indus Valley Civilization

Monstrosity isn’t always what is perceived on the outside. Becoming one with an animal, having animalistic tendencies, or an alter ego of a beast can be considered monstrous to society. In the poem “Why do you keep putting animals in your poems”, the man depicted in the poem is learning from the animals in the poem. He also realizes that the animalistic way of life is much simpler than the life of a human. In “Now You’re An Animal” by Mark Doty the professor goes into a studio to get his picture…

Rouben Mamoulian’s Blood and Sand most closely resembles The Adventures of Robin Hood’s style of different rules for the discrete phases of the film and assertive color design. The defining rule for the beginning of Blood and Sand is restraint: setting Juan Gallardo apart from his world through color. The first shot tracks from a poster of a matador, to a wall-mounted bull’s head, finally resting on a wide-awake Juan. This pithy sequence tells the audience everything about Juan’s vision of…

Holden of Catcher in the Rye and Junior of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian are distinct personalities in terms of integrating with the society. Holden endeavors to isolate himself from the society; on the other hand, Junior wants to become a part of the society he is living with, while still isolating himself. However, Holden couldn’t achieve not confining himself, whereas Junior turns out to harmonize himself with the society he is a part of. There are various factors…

In the Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, several characters demonstrate their leadership by establishing separate groups of children. Between all groups, the main characters, Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon all highlight their strengths and exposes the weaknesses of their specific leadership style. With these contrasting leadership styles, a struggle for power emerges. Ralph, who is an authentic leader, focuses on creating a democratic body. Whereas Jack, who is an autocratic leader, wants…

“And to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24). One aspect of the Ephesians' verse that is applicable to William Golding's Lord of the Flies is the idea of righteousness and the character who represents that idea is Simon. In the story an all boys British school crash lands on an island. With no adults to supervise them many of the boys went into their savage tendances because there is no order for them to follow. Out of all of them,…

the conch shell was broken the network of society was gone, just like the shell. Meaning that all of the civilization on the island was lost. Ralph no longer has the authority to make rules. Overall, the essential burden is the conflict between the two different groups of kids, those that stay civilized and those who turn to savages. Since the fire is the boys only connection to civilization, they obviously need it to be running. Also the loss of innocence in the boys shows how the evil inside…

place crashes. There is no adult supervision in the island, leaving the children to make decisions on their own, which may cause some struggles in the long run. In chapter 1, William Golding introduces a spectrum of different themes and motifs: civilization versus savagery; technology versus nature; hunters versus gatherers; adults versus children; and the intellect versus physicality. In this chapter, we also meet Ralph, Piggy, and other minor and side characters, such as Jack and Simon. When…

In 1954, Nobel Literature Prize winner William Golding wrote a novel, called The Lord of the Flies, describing civilized society's collapse into savage nature. In Golding's The Lord of the Flies, a group of boys is stranded on an unknown island in the Pacific Ocean during a war. In order to survive, they form their own version of society by electing Ralph as their leader and establishing rules to keep order. After the initial exploration of the island, they begin to divide tasks amongst…

nature of mankind as the reader learns about the experience of a group of boys deserted on an island without adults who must take it upon themselves to survive. As the novel progresses the reader sees the boys navigate the responsibilities of a civilization, a struggle for power, and how fear will drive them to go as far as murder. Golding starts to develop one of the major themes of this novel in chapter nine when as a storm is brewing Simon climbs up the mountain to investigate the “beast”…

Ancient Rome was made up of various classes, which includes the patricians and the plebeian classes. Although these classes were not treated equally, there are some aspects where they were accorded the same privilege. For instance, the Patricians and the Plebeians had a citizenship right. However, the Patricians and the Plebeian class had different political and economic inclinations, which evidently led to the famous plebeian revolt within Rome. In this paper, we examine how the economic and…