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Throughout history, wars have revealed that there is an evil side to human nature. History has repetitively shown that people are callous and cruel to others. This is human nature, although society has tried to eliminate this element of humans at an early age. In World War II, William Golding viewed this evil side to man. William Golding reflected upon his experiences through his novel, Lord of the Flies, in which a plane clash leaves a group of British schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited…

Personalities of the Mind William G. Golding was a Noble Prize winner in Literature. He was also the author of Lord of the Flies, a book still read to this day in most english classes. The book is about a group of young boys stranded on an island after a plane crash during a war. The boys are tested to stay civilized or become savage. Three characters in the book best represent Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, id, ego, and superego. Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis and…

Imagine that you are in a gruesome crash and are stranded on an island with peers who have never seen before. No adults inhabit the island and you are unsure of what to do. How exactly do you make shelter, find food, or even let anyone know you’re stranded? This situation seems unfortunate right? This describes the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding. This intriguing novel consists of many hidden allegories and themes. One that emerges in the story, is a moral allegory. Being…

Humans are flawed creatures. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel in which a group of young British schoolboys are stranded on an island slowly wander into savagery because of flaws. Golding’s novel is an attempt to trace the faults of society back to human nature. Through the behaviour of the schoolboys, Golding reveals that due to fear, power, and loss of identity, society is destined to fail. Fear causes rash behaviour in humans. The main source of fear on the island is the Beast,…

William Golding's The Lord of the Flies is not simply a book about conflict between a group of people. The novel is more about how a person goes from the stages of childhood into the turbulent stages of adolescence. In many books childhood is shown as a symbol of pure innocence. While in adolescence that innocence turns to curiosity as one starts to learn more about the world around them and the truth it bears. In Lord of the flies childhood is indeed show as a sign or symbol of innocence, but…

Great literature is said to end with a resolution of the central conflict, while creating lingering conflicts for the reader to ponder. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is no different. The final chapter, characterized with suspense and bewilderment, creates new conflicts the moment the Naval Officer arrives on the island. When the officer materializes, the scene of someone, an adult, on the island is baffling. The boys are bare, or fashioned in rags, painted in clay, and filthy from head…

In William Golding`s “Lord of the Flies”, a group of boys crashed an airplane on a deserted island and attempted to make a government. While the boys were on the island, there were two leaders. Their names were Jack and Ralph. They both had different ways of governing the people. Jack was the superior leader, however the government that Ralph had was more democratic, nevertheless, the boys ended up choosing Jack to be their leader over Ralph. Jack was chosen over Ralph for his ability to tell…

Ambition vs. Conscience is a significant theme that influences the plot advancements of both William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies and William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. In the end, the ambitious nature of Macbeth and Jack win out, and this ultimately leads to their demise. In the beginning of their respective pieces, both characters are humane and conscientious people. Jack is a young British boy who is a choir leader and Macbeth is a loyal and honourable thane to the King of Scotland. But…

When in survival situations it is key to gather food and water. Sometimes that doesn't work as one hopes for because it is hard to hunt or gather food, as well as, collect water. However, as a natural instinct of not being able to collect these vital items, a person or group of people tend to turn to the dark side of human nature. That is how William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies exposes such criticism about mankind. After witnessing the dark side of human nature in World War II, Golding wrote…

True Evilness of a Man Many may say boys can be more vicious and rebellious compared to their opposite sex. With human’s naturally bad nature or a child’s lonely feeling caused by the constant absence of an adult role model. Individuals affected may slowly become corrupted by these ideas. William Golding, in the novel, Lord of the Flies, uses the characters Ralph, Jack, and Piggy to demonstrate how the boys behaved to “the darkness of a man’s heart” during their time on the island. The boys…