Robert Michael Ballantyne

In the year 1858 Robert Michael Ballantyne released a novel called The Coral Island, in the story, a small group of boys are stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean and are left to survive with each other until eventually they fight their way back to a proper civilization. In the 1950’s an author named William Golding read that story and believed that that wouldn’t be what would happen to a group of boys with no adults, so he wrote his own take on the story in a novel called Lord of the Flies. In Lord of the Flies a group of boys are stranded on a lively island rich in the resources that they need to survive and because one of the boys has a father with some significance in the Navy, they also have a potential to be rescued quickly. The boys really have no concerns on the island except each other. This is where Golding’s story takes a turn for the worse. In his story some of the boys begin to turn on each other and fight leading to the eventual death of some boys and the ultimate destruction of the island. This ending happened because Golding had the fundamental belief that at every person’s core they are evil and that without civilization that evil comes to light. Throughout the story, the children lose their…

Golding published Lord of the Flies on September 17,1954, almost 10 years after World War II. He got inspiration from his experiences as, a naval officer during World War II, a father, and a teacher. But, he also was inspired to write after reading The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. The Coral Island is very similar to Lord of the Flies, except instead of the boys growing savage, the boys make a very orderly mini British society, with the only conflict being a group of cannibals on the island.…

We have deeply learned William Golding’ s Lord of the Flies for a really long while. This story is really similar with the other two stories, R. M. Ballantyne’ s the Coral Island and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. In the three novels, the authors use the same setting - put their main characters on an island. The main character’s identities, their actions, their personalities, their attitudes towards the nature and their relationship to the nature response the reflection of the generation the…

Ballantyne titled The Coral Island. It was such an inspiration that he chose to use the same character names of two of the boys that were in Ballantyne’s book as well as used a similar story line. Summarized by Feedbooks, The Coral Island was a story about three boys, Ralph (15), Jack (18), and Peterkin (14), that become shipwrecked on a deserted island that had plenty of resources for food to survive on allowing these boys to enjoy their adventure on the island. Although the beginning of…

The civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Often times, people listen to that song without further knowledge on what it may truly mean and fail to take the time to investigate the credibility of that bird. Along with this, us humans sometimes act as parrots, simply imitating any idiotic utterance that is conceived. In the speculative fiction book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the episode “The Monsters…

Censorship. It’s a word that gives some the sense of protection, however others feel thatsomething important is lost. Truth is, something is lost, truth. Many great works of literaturehave suffered from censorship and others have even been banned. The Lord of the Flies is noexception, a ban slowly creeps up, like a shadow obscuring truth.The Lord of the Flies depicts children (the main ones are: Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon)in a deserted island. It explores the theme of savagery and…

First of all, both novels include a group of boys stranded on a tropical island. In both books, the tropical islands are very similar providing the boys with fruits and berries to eat, a place to build shelter, as well as beaches for the boys to play around and have fun in. Another similarity within the novels is that the main characters have the same or similar names. In The Coral Island, the names of the the three main boys are Ralph, Jack and Peterkin. “... introduce myself to the reader as…

When Satan set’s his eyes upon Adam and Eve, it is doubtful they he knew how easy it would be to corrupt their minds. Eve, in my opinion was probably the easiest to manipulate and that is why Satan was delighted to come upon her first rather than Adam. Eve, is just like any other woman, so it is quite easy to distinguish what one needs to do to get on her good graces. Due to it being Eve, Satan tempted her with his evil offer by using flattery on her. Apparently flattery will get you anywhere.…

But when the door to the hall, into which no sound from the noisy Metropolis could penetrate, closed behind her, the ore voice of the angel of the cathedral struck at her breast like a steel fist, and she stood still, stunned, raising her hands to her head. Why was Saint Michael crying out so angrily and wildly? Why was the roar of Azrael, the angel of Death joining in so alarmingly? She stepped into the street. Darkness, like a thick layer of soot, lay over the town, and only the cathedral…

In order for a novel to be considered Gothic literature it has to have certain elements. Milton’s Paradise Lost exudes gothic characteristics. The first is Pandemonium. When Satan and his followers are banished to Hell, together they create Pandemonium. Gothic literature is really all about intense emotion and the confusion between good and evil. Powerful emotion is clearly evident in Paradise Lost as there is a constant grasping or pushing and pulling with good and evil, God and Satan. The…