Ring of Gyges

The first six chapters of William Golding's Lord of The Flies investigates the distribution of leadership throughout the batch of boys stuck on the island. The main leaders, Ralph and Jack, are both goal oriented, decisive, and empowering. Although they both are capable to lead, their points of view on the situation at hand are conflicting to one another. Ralph is focused on shelter and rescue while Jack is looking to hunt and play rather than finding a way off the island and back to…

“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” is a common phrase. The higher the price on jewelry whether it is a watch, necklace or ring, depends on the amount of carats of diamond included. The diamonds beauty and shine brings joy onto the faces of women as they get treated by their significant others. People buy expensive jewelry because it looks good, makes people feel wealthy, and is considered a luxury. However, consumers did not always know where these diamonds originated about 15 years ago, it was…

Everyone has a personal fear, whether it’s make believe or real. In the book,The Lord of the Flies a group of boys was mistakenly dropped on an isolated island off of an airplane left with no source of authority at all. While they all battled through man versus self conflicts in the book, along came a thing in the that they all feared. They called it a beast. Just about all of the boys believed that this “beast” was a real “snake like” thing, but only one came to a realization of what it really…

In The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the character of the Beast embodies the basic human emotion of fear, and how it starts to develop into bigger extremes of fear over time. As fear builds up, savagery also begins to take hold of the boys. As the boys grow more vicious, the the beast becomes more real. The Beast develops first within the imagination of the boys, then it takes on physical shape, until finally, it becomes idolized as a totemic, god type figure. In the beginning of…

Lord of the flies is a thrilling book filled with lots of sudden fighting and unpredicted actions written by William Golding. The book starts at the beginning of the World War with school boys being transported by plane to an unknown location for safety. The plane crashes on a mysterious island unattended by adults and only kids. They start to celebrate with the thought of freedom and no rules, but soon they realize that no rules means no civilization. From the night the downfall begins, they…

Tanav Kudupudi Ms.Cler World Core P5 8 September 2015 The Truth about Human Nature In the novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding a group of boys were trapped on an island with no adult to help them. There was none on the island. They had to survive on their own. But in that process they take some very dangerous steps which prevents them from survival. William Golding illustrates that the boys are afraid of each other and they make up stories about the beast and that clearly matches to the…

Bilbo Baggins goes on a quest as one of fourteen to take back the Lonely Mountain from the Dragon Smaug. Throughout most of the tale the dwarves do not take kindly to Bilbo, but they accept him into the fellowship. Do the dwarves truly care for Bilbo and are they friends, or is this simply the comradeship that comes with adversity? Comradeship is defined as the feeling of attachment that exists between people who share a common goal. While friendship is defined as the feeling of affection…

Savagery is a weapon used to kill and destroy all civilization and humanity. In the Lord of the Flies by William Golding savagery is the source of conflict that destroys the unity among the people. In the novel half of a plane filled with young British boys crashes on an unknown island, and the other half which contained the adults was lost at sea. At first the boys maintain a civilized society but as disagreements arise, tension and the fight for power emerge. The boys become savage by hunting…

Do you have what it takes to be a truly exemplary hero? If your answer is no, than you are in the same boat as our hero, Bilbo Baggins. But as the age-old adage says, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” In the book The Hobbit by famed British author J.R.R. Tolkien, our protagonist, Bilbo Baggins displays characteristics very similar to those of Beowulf and Sir Gawain. Some say that Bilbo was a coward while others believe he was a mighty hero. Bilbo Baggins matches the example laid down by…

In the beginning of the book, Bilbo is going along with his normal, boring, life, carrying on as usual(which is also another part of the monomyth which is status quo, or normal life) until Gandalf comes seeking a partner for an adventure. This is the call to adventure. Some event that signifies the start of the journey or reason for the hero to leave his normal life. Bilbo refuses because he is a normal and boring person. But eventually Gandalf forces it upon him by directing all the Dwarves…