Moe Asch

The 1930 Yiddish film, “Uncle Moses,” written by Sholem Asch and Maurice Schwartz portrays a story of Uncle Moses, a wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner who falls in love with Masha, an employee’s teenage daughter. The film greatly portrays a rich, oblivious man who struggles to find and receive love due to his narcissistic nature. In both the readings and film, it is easily perceived that Masha has a negative attitude towards Uncle Moses and is clearly marrying him out of financial and social obligations. Also, both readings and film portray the exploitive, manipulative, and narcissistic womanizer who conducts affairs with multiple women and lords his wealth and power over the people in the Lower East Side. To begin with, an example of a scene that portrays Uncle Moses as a womanizer in the beginning of the film where he is approached by a woman who sits next to him while he’s eating and tries to flirt with with him, even though her husband is clearly watching. He responds with cold replies by saying, “Leave me alone, I’m busy.” He constantly shuts her up numerous times and says, “the devil made [him] fall for [her] dimples and dark eyes.” Uncle Moses is seen talking…

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding proclaims that “society” is a made up concept that exists only to create a feeling of security. When the boys first come together, they turn to the idea of order in an attempt to find comfort, endeavouring to recreate civilization by electing a leader and putting rules into place. However, the comfort of directives are soon over ridden by the savage instincts of the boys as they begin to find joy in hunting, killing and inflicting pain. At the conclusion of…

Civilization vs. Savagery in Lord of the Flies Are human beings capable of controlling their savage nature when removed from society? In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, this is explored throughout the novel, in the way that the children slowly adapt to their surroundings. This novel brings to light the reality of human nature and natural tendencies. As shown through Jack and his increasingly violent acts. The conch has power over the children and influences their actions. Ralph feels the…

Honors Essay Prompts form The Lord of the Flies 1. Explain the symbolism of Conch shell and how it relates to Piggy’s death In The Lord of the Flies, the conch shell plays an important role on how the kids organize themselves and how they decide their rules. Piggy thought of the idea of blowing the conch to unite everyone on the island, and told Ralph to do it. The noise of the conch was so powerful that all of the kids on the island started to respect the conch and the one who blew the…

“You come for me and I’ll kick your God damn head off.” (Steinbeck pg. 62) In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Curley is known for lines like these. Curley is the son of the boss on the ranch, but acts as though he is the boss. Curley represents evil and Curley is all talk. As soon as we are introduced to Curley he comes off as a character that you do not want to mess with and acts rather evil. One of the first things that he says about Lennie is “By christ he’s got to talk when he…

“We've got to have special people for looking after the fire. Any day there may be a ship out there"—he waved his arm at the taut wire of the horizon—"and if we have a signal going they'll come and take us off. And another thing. We ought to have more rules. Where the conch is, that's a meeting. The same up here as down there.” In this example of leadership that shows how Ralph is able to organize rules to keep everyone in line. Also it shows how he was able to figure out and organize what needs…

The Conch In the Lord of the Flies, the conch is used to represent a symbol of authority and order on the island. When the boys first land on the island, Ralph spots the conch amongst the weeds but it is Piggy who knows what it is and realizes that is “ever so valuable.” Piggy teaches Ralph how to blow the conch and initially, the loud sound of the conch is used for calling meetings and henceforth is instituted as a symbol of power and authority. ‘Where the conch is, that’s a meeting. The same…

The novel written by William Golding, The Lord of The Flies, is a story about kids that are allowed to govern themselves; they get to make up the rules and choose if they will follow them or not. In the strive to create a civilization in which they can survive, and eventually get rescued, they have to find ways to stay together, but, while not only failing to do so, they become savages and go around distributing fear amongst themselves. The fear then creates a cycle, where the more fear there is…

Corruption often erupts when rulers break any boundaries to establish order with violent and illogical means. Reason and civil laws encourage peace and a prosperous civilization, but are often overridden by brute force. When a group of young boys crash-land on a deserted island without any adults or civilization, they are forced to institute a series of laws and a hierarchy amongst themselves. Divided between ideals of order and logic and savagery and turbulence, the boys, ranging in age from 6…

Jack is able to rule the boys of his tribe because he justifies everything with the fear of the beast. He implants the idea that the beast needs to die in their minds. Even after the death of Simon, at the hands of his chaotic dance, he denies the beast being dead, and claims it still alive. Jack does not believe in the power of the conch either, and without it he has no civilized order. Wilfred being tied up and beaten for Jack's amusement is a perfect example of his savage way of order. By not…