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How is fear presented in Lord of the Flies?
- Essay length: 984 words
- Submitted: 15/05/2012
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Karen Reader
Teacher essay summary
This is a very interesting essay, which demonstrates a good understanding of the text, but sometimes moves too far away from it in its arguments. With more focus on quotes, clearer expression and effective paragraphing, this essay would have achieved top marks. ****
Marked by teacher Karen Reader 28/04/2112
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How is fear presented by Golding in Lord of The Flies?
Fear is an elemental part of the boys' life, it coexists with them throughout the novel, contorting and evolving at the hands of the boys' imagination. This fear mutates, it grows from being just a singular emotion to a catalyst of events; it lives almost a life of its own upon the island, feeding off the lonely isolation of the boys and giving birth to ever more engulfing notions of the emotion. Ever developing the fear is never suppressed, never 'washed to away from the island', until the cleansing hand of civilization once again takes responsibility of the boys-this being the arrival of the navy ship and 'a uniform'.
At first fear is merely the speech of the littlest children, harmless to those who were older and 'mature' enough to give it no heed. Maturity, it would seem, within the novel appears to have a definition that implies that the longer one has been in the bosom of society, educated and disciplined by her, the more mature they are. 'He says the beastie came in the dark' tells us far more than just the first incarnation of
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MbT essay summary
This is a very interesting essay, which demonstrates a good understanding of the text, but sometimes moves too far away from it in its arguments. With more focus on quotes, clearer expression and effective paragraphing, this essay would have achieved top marks. ****
