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    mob of people in an emergency situation it sometimes results in people getting trampled. William Golding exemplifies this occurrence in Lord of the Flies with the use of his characters and their actions. For instance, the author shows the boys using Robert as a pig, and Jack becoming more obsessed with the pig and later killing the sow. Other examples that support this statement is the death of Piggy, Roger torturing the twins. The last case that supports this thesis is when the other boys are…

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    best to keep a signal fire going to get rescued. But as time goes by, a few of the boys start to turn “savage” and overtake any sort of logic and reasoning… All teamwork seems to disappear and nobody seems to want to help anyone but themselves… William Golding compares this to society and demonstrates that if there…

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    roles [they] play in life.” He believes that the persona is something that is ever-changing, but is separate from the true personality of said individual. William Golding creates an interestingly dystopian tale showcasing the very worst of humanity in Lord of the Flies, a novel about a crowd of young boys who end up stranded on a deserted island. Roger, one of these boys, demonstrates Jung’s example of what a persona is. Roger’s true persona emerges over the course of the novel: from the way he…

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    If humans believed the world would run peacefully without laws and law enforcers, there would not be a government. However, there is a government which helps people think twice before committing a crime. William Golding, a famous author, supports the idea that society keeps humans’ evil nature in line. In Golding’s book, Lord of the Flies, a plane carrying British boys crashes, killing all adults on the plane and leaving the boys alone in an unknown uninhabited island. In the beginning, the boys…

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    Diving into William Wordsworth’s Life Love for nature, strong emotions about life, and a wild imagination are all traits of the Romantic era. The people in the Romantic era enjoyed writing poetry about the things listed. The greatest poet of the Romanticism era is not Emily Dickinson or Walter Scott, even though they are great too, but it is William Wordsworth. Wordsworth is known as the Father of the Romanticism period. He has many famous literary works such as The Prelude, “I Wander Lonely…

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    written by William Golding. The theme of the story is developing order among the survivors of a plane crash. In order to do that survival plays an important role, different strengths, such as physical, mental, and survival skills are traits that the characters demonstrate in this book. If they work together they can survive, if they don’t they will not survive. In the book you will meet many different characters and personalities, the most important characters are Piggy, Ralph, Jack, Roger,…

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    the Flies, the author, William Golding, portrays a character named Roger. He seems civilize and shy in the beginning. But, when he starts to drift away from a life of rules and consequences, he starts to express his inner self in a negative way. Therefore, Roger is born inherently evil, because he shows his true self by hurting others for his own need. Roger demonstrates evilness, when he tortures, scare innocent people, and not have any care of hurting anyone. When, Roger walks on the shore,…

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    their head and they become controlling and overpowering. In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph is chosen as the chief. The first thing he does is give Jack full power over the hunters, giving him power without earning it. Jack takes the power he is given and attempts to take over Ralph’s job as chief and turn the other boys against him. Through the characterization of Jack, William Golding develops the theme people will abuse power when it is not earned. Due to getting…

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    in the case of Roger, I don’t want to. In the novel Lord of the Flies, authored by William Golding, an evacuation from Great Britain causes a numerous amount of boys to end up stranded on an island. The desolate and unforgiving island tests the civility within each boy, bringing them closer and closer to pure chaos with every passing day. Chipping away at the civility that binds each child to the outside world, the island brings out the worst in each child. Of all the boys, Roger faced the…

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    “Juveniles don’t think of the consequences of their actions”(Beller). This is just like Roger in the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding. Roger grew up in a family that did not give him severe punishments for the bad things he did. This lead to him doing terrible things that no person should do. In the novel, a group of young British boys end up on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Soon after, the survivors join together, find food and water, and elect a boy named…

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