Professionalism is a combination of knowledge and wisdom, a virtue if you will, obtained from a variety of sources including education, socialization, and experience in the field. No matter what level of education a person has achieved, or the amount of experience gained, openness, transparency, and continually striving to improve are characteristics necessary for achieving superior results. Something rather profound happened over the past week or so and the following discussion post will…
William Golding’s main themes within Lord of the Flies are that of the hopelessness of mankind and of evil as an inborn trait of humanity. He shows these themes by using children unacquainted with experience to exhibit the evil within human nature. His characters and objects chosen to represent society and benignity are overcome by their counterparts. The presence of ‘the beast’ is Golding’s way of depicting the manifestation of inborn savagery within humans. Golding used Lord of the Flies to…
More than six millions Jews were brutally executed in Nazi Germany, but before Hitler had gotten control of Germany, he used the fear of communism to gain power and control. That fear would help forge a world of violence and savagery that will never be forgotten. Similarly, Lord of the Flies is a book in which Jack, uses the other boys’ fear of a beast to turn their society into disorder and cruelty. In Lord of The Flies, William Golding uses Jack and the symbol of the Beast to convey how fear…
Imagine being stranded on an island with a kid who has the urge to hunt and not do anything about being rescued, but another kid wants to be rescued and barely ever thinks about the idea of surviving. Throughout the book Ralph tells everyone that they need to build a fire in order to be rescued, however, Jack thinks that they need to hunt for food. Every bit of innocence in the boys was lost once they separated into two completely different groups. The conch shell plays a big role for the boys,…
The Beast Everyone is fearful of something although in the book "The Lord of the Flies," the most feared thing happens to be a beast. This is like how little kids are fearful of a monster under their bed. In this story the boys happen to be stranded because of a failure to evacuate them away from world war 2. The boys get stranded on an island and try to have structure but civilization is quickly lost especially because of a beast that is supposedly on the island. In the book the beast adapts…
Power doesn’t corrupt people. People corrupt power. This saying is relevant in the novel, The Chrysalids, because when power is given to an individual, it only takes one step for the person to take advantage of it and corrupt it, but the concept of power never corrupts anything. In The Chrysalids, the theme of power is strongly seen through religion, discrimination, and mutants. In The Chrysalids, the theme of power is demonstrated through religion because of the Strorms’ history and religious…
Lord Of The Flies Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding, portrays a group of English schoolboys ages 6-12, who get in a plane crash and end up on an island with no adult supervision. The boys must now find a way to overcome obstacles to survive and govern themselves. A tragic flaw in human nature is that we are all burdened with a hidden beast within. This becomes relevant in the book when we see the effect the hidden beast has on the boys through violence, corruption, and ultimately the loss…
Ralph was crying at the end of the Lord of the Flies "for the end of innocence," a retrospective of the most important novels of the problem, which makes it an open network of innocence that is lost. When people leave the first Islander to enjoy their freedom of expression and intense longing and fear among children pretend to be changing. At the end of the novel, however, our hometown reflex the behavior of adult warriors: they are killing, torture and even attack each other without hesitation…
The world war was huge during 1942. Students in Devon and even teachers were being drafted. Gene saw the upperclassmen going off to war again and again. This eminent future wasn’t what they all focused on. Gene distracted himself with childish thoughts, cutting classes, and jumping off trees. ”We seemed to be nothing but children playing against heroic men” (7.79). All the while not paying attention to the dark and depressing news and eminent battle ahead of them. Out of all the people Elwin…
Each step is precise, each movement fluid, and every sense awake, ready. The hunter is alive, adrenaline coursing through his blood. Rustling leaves scream his prey’s hiding place. His body moves without thought, instincts becoming all that he knows. The hunted recognizes this rhythm of feet pounding the ground, knows it better than his own heartbeat. It’s whats kept him up for two days escaping death again and again. Leaping from the tree, the man almost stumbles, before lurching forward into…