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    Literary Analysis Lord Of The Flies Essay How do the characters in Lord of the Flies relate to our personalities? In the allegorical novella, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, A large group of english schoolboys crash on a deserted island with no adults or supplies. Two of the boys named Piggy and Ralph find each other and instantly connect and work together to try and build a civilization. Unfortunately for the boys, a headstrong leader called Jack’s only interested is in having fun…

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    The Psychological Analysis of Lord of the Flies In Lord of the Flies, young boys ranging from six to twelve are stranded on a desert island after their plane has crashed. They have no connection or communication with society and the outside world, therefore they have no adults regulating their actions and behaviors. Without adults controlling them, they are able to make their own rules to abide by. But as the novel progresses, some of the boys begin to disregard the rules and societal rules…

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    In the novel Lord of The Flies, young boys become stranded on an island after there ship crashes. These boys, having never known each other before, try their best to stay alive using survival techniques. However, as time passes the boys start to loose sight of civilization and a type of darkness takes over them. One boy in particular named Jack becomes power hungry and looses all sight of good verses bad. Jack exemplifies the theme of power through his steadfast descent into madness and his…

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    What happens when the only thing holding an island together obliterates. What happens when reality fades away? The book Lord of the Flies tells us what happens when a group of 6 to 12 year old boys are stranded on an island after their plane crashes. While trying to make his way back to civilization Piggy finds a conch. The conch is used to call meetings and get the boy’s attention. In Lord of the Flies, the condition of the conch symbolizes civilization on the island. At the beginning of the…

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    In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the comparative lack of civilization makes way for the turn of our characters to savagery, the truest characteristic of humanity. After their plane crashes on an uninhabited and uncharted island, we see a group of boys turn from a democratic, civilized group into a dictatorial, savage group. In the end all is put to rest with the arrival of society in the form of a Navy officer, but the deeper issues are never truly fixed, only postponed and forgotten.…

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    No water, food, or adults. What would you do? Would you be one of the responsible ones? Or one of the people caught up in the uncivilized acts of murder, greed, and fear? The characters in the book, Lord of the Flies, arrive on the island not knowing anything. These are little boys, so their actions reflect nothing but utter irresponsibility, and when there is such irresponsibly, it becomes total chaos and uncivilization. When a group of completely different boys fall upon a deserted island,…

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    All people have an inner beast, just waiting to be released when the time comes. Most people do not think that they could do anything remotely threatening to another person's life, but when put into certain situations anyone can exhibit extreme behaviors. There are precise limits to every person’s willingness to do something and sometimes they are put in situations when they must go beyond their own thought of values. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is written about a group of schoolboys…

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    Have you ever thought of what you would do or what it would be like to be stranded on an island with no outside sources such as guns, canned food, nothing at all but resources on the island. The characters in the Lord of the Flies never thought of that and in the end turned into savages because of it. The author of this book is William Golding. The main characters in this story were Piggy a boy with glasses and is an orphan and the other boys on the island do not like him much, also their is…

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    Isaiah “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood” The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of children whose plane crashes of an Island. Once on the island they realize their are no adults around the oldest being around 12. They appoint Ralph one of the older boys chief but the little kids don't…

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    Imagine a deserted island, far away from the city and its bright lights, in a place no one has ever heard before. It could be called a paper town or a ghost town. However know that nothing and no one is there. Now imagine being stranded on that exact island. Panic and fear are the only emotions being felt. But the island is not empty anymore, for now its population is three. Now resided by three of the worst people, Sarah from “Ah Love! Ah Me!”, Barett from “Take Over Bos’n” and Fear, the…

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