In what way is " Lord of the Flies" an allergy of the darkness of mans heart?

IN WHAT WAY IS " LORD OF THE FLIES" AN ALLERGY OF THE DARKNESS OF MANS HEART? By Jade Price. "Lord of the Flies," by William Golding is ostensibly a story about a group of middle class English boys who crash land on an uninhabited island during the world war. There are no adult's with the boys as the only adult, the pilot gets killed . Than the boys assemble on the beach. The boys start well by having regulations and assemblies to discuss things that affect them. They elect a boy called Ralph as the leader, who decides he and some others will be in charge of building huts. Jack, the leader of the choirboys becomes in charge of keeping the fire alight, so they can be saved and hutting. As the novel progress things start to deteriorate. First the fire gets out of control killing at least one boy and destroying some of the island. Than the younger ones believe there is a beast on the island. After all this happens the boys split up into two groups and become enemies. Before getting saved by a naval officer two more boys get killed. Golding, being a Catholic, wrote "Lord of the Flies," as an allegory explaining man's fall from grace and man's essential evil. The link between the Garden of Eden and the island is that it is paradise. The island represents this because Adam and Eve were alone in the garden, just like the boys are alone on the island. This is when Eve gave into

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" The Lord Of The Flies is a novel which highlights the frailties within humanity" discuss with reference to the social, moral and historical content of the text.

" The Lord Of The Flies is a novel which highlights the frailties within humanity" discuss with reference to the social, moral and historical content of the text. The lord of the flies is a novel, which highlights the frailties of humanity, and how if law and order are taken from the community then civilised society is lost and all that is left is savagery. At the beginning of the novel, we see the first example of "survival of the fittest" when a boy with a physical weakness a "mulberry coloured birth mark" on the side of his face disappears and is never seen again. He was also the first boy to mention "the beast" "...he said it was a beastie" this symbolises him being the first one to admit his fears and phobias, and on the island the children's fears are emphasised more on the island than in normal society because in civilised society codes and conventions prevent fears and phobias from becoming personified. As he is the first one to admit to his fears and let his weakness out he is the first one to go "him that talked about the snakes...where is he know?" After the boy disappears, the boys start to think and worry that maybe the beast is not such an absurd idea as they thought. They try to make life on the island as normal as possible, they choose Ralph as chief and their number one priorities are rescue and survival. Ralph organises jobs to try and make the island feel

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"Discuss William Golding's use of symbolism in 'Lord of the Flies'".

'LORD OF THE FLIES' W. GOLDING "Discuss William Golding's use of symbolism in 'Lord of the Flies'" William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" is a social comment upon man's very nature and ability to interact. Golding places a group of boys on an island and slowly removes all of society's constraints and rules while the boys destroy one another in the needs to survive. He uses the symbolism to comment upon the nature of the boys, their degeneration into savagery, and society's role. Piggy's spectacles, the boy's clothes, the fire, the beast and even the pig become central to Golding's message about 'mankind's essential illness.' Lord of the Flies was written in 1954, just nine years after the end of World War II. Europe (and the rest of the world) were still recovering from the damages it had received. And then William Golding wrote a book, a book that shows what people are really like if they are pushed, and he showed this by using children. After World War II, the Cold War began. This was no war with armies or bombs, this was a war to try and gain nuclear power. People were worried that they might not wake up the next day, that their country would have been bombed. It was a terrible time, and that is why it is understandable to say the boys in Lord of the Flies were fleeing due to threat of nuclear war. Is Jack like Hitler? Yes. Jack and Hitler started out as being second in

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"Everything is breaking up. I don't know why." Ralph - What is going wrong on the island and why?

Monday 11th October 2004 "Everything is breaking up. I don't know why." - Ralph What is going wrong on the island and why? The group of evacuees, all boys roughly aged between five and twelve, is dividing into two sets of people, each following either the ideal of civilisation, or the ideal of savagery. At the beginning of the novel, every boy, conditioned by society, was following the ideal of civilisation, that being the only ideal they knew. However, as the novel progresses, the ideal of savagery, hidden in every human heart which is the centre of this allegorical novel, begins to grow and surface, and soon more and more boys are falling prey to their very basic, primal instincts and urges; hunting animals, forming tribes, painting themselves and losing all vestiges of societal rules. This regression is what Ralph, a firm advocate of the civilisation ideal, deems as what is going wrong on the island. As the island, the tropical paradise, on which the group of boys are stranded upon is not, and cannot be held to blame for the regression, the only other possibility is that the boys themselves are responsible. This in itself can be attributed to several factors, which overall can be identified as conflicts; there are several of these beginning and growing throughout the novel, and towards the end they all draw to a climax. A major one, which initiates almost

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Simon in the Lord of the Flies

Simon is a member of the choir, but is the only one who seems weak. Simon is introduced in the novel when he faints; this is a show of his weakness. He is a lot like piggy, but not as bullied. Ralph thinks he is 'queer' and 'funny' because he is realistic. Simon is the first boy to notice the candle bud flowers when they are out walking. Simon always sees the spiritual side of the island. The only place you see candles nowadays is in churches. Jack slashes at the candle buds with his knife keeping up his reputation as the anarchist. The creepers on the island are long vines. The small children see these creepers as "beasties". When the little child comes forward during a meeting, he describes a 'snake-thing', then changes his mind to a 'beastie'. The boy makes out the 'beastie to be evil'. The beastie the boy has seen is not a physical monster it is a monster inside the boy's head. The most terrifying thing is darkness and the unknown. The unknown makes the human imagination go wild and ask all the questions it can, "What's out there?" "Is it a huge big snake" "Is it coming to get me in the night?" The snake-like thing the 'little-un' describes is symbolic of the serpent in the story of Adam and Eve. In Genesis, in the Bible, the serpent is portrayed as the devil and acts against god's wishes; it offers Eve the fruit from the tree of knowledge, unknowing of the

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Explore how the theme of hunting is used in "Lord of the Flies" and why this is central to the boys' changing behaviour. How do ralph and jack respond to these changes?

Explore how the theme of hunting is used in "Lord of the Flies" and why this is central to the boys' changing behaviour. How do ralph and jack respond to these changes? The theme of hunting is recurrent throughout the novel, and is used to track the boy's descent into savagery. It starts as a necessity and simply a means of getting food, a common need that the boys all share and benefit from. However, it soon turns into a cultish way of life which divides the ultimately kills members of the group. The restraints and rules of society are taken away from the boys quite abrubtly and without warning, and at the beginning it is apparent that they do not really know how to react to this sudden change of lifestyle. However, as the book progresses the boy's newfound freedom, paired with their immaturity and their fustration with being trapped on the island manifests in a primeval obsession to hunt. Golding portrays the desire to hunt and kill as a primitive urge which lies dormant in each of us, but can take over when in an unnurtured and unrestrained environment. It seems to pronounce itself in each of the boys at different points of the novel; at Simon's death, even Piggy and Ralph found themselves "eager to take part in this demented but partly secure society", where "the desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering." I think this is one of Goldings main moral messages, not to

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What is the importance of Simon in the story The Lord of the Flies?

First Coursework Assignment: Year 10 Term 2 A written response to one major author with a well-established reputation whose work was published after 1914. (Chosen author: William Golding, 'Lord of the Flies'.) What Is The Importance Of Simon In The Story? In the novel 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding, Simon plays a very important part. He is constantly shown to be the Christ-like figure among the boys and he performs acts in the story that could be compared to acts from the bible. He is all goodness and proves this in good deeds, which are performed, at times, in the face of adversity from the other boys. It has been suggested by some that Lord of the Flies is just an adventure story. However, it could be argued, through the representation of Simon's character, that it is a story that depicts a battle between good and evil. This theme is one that was influenced by Golding's own experiences of atrocities in World War II. When Simon is first introduced to the story he is marching in the choir. He makes a significant entrance when he faints as the choir arrives at the assembly platform. Jack, the head chorister, describes him as 'always throwing a faint'. He then carries on explaining the places the choir have sung in, where Simon has fainted; 'Gib, Addis and at Matins over the precentor'. Through the story Simon shows to have an illness because he faints or

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How does William Golding use Chapter 1 to Introduce the Themes of the Novel?

How does William Golding use Chapter 1 to Introduce the Themes of the Novel? Lord of The Flies was written by William Golding and was first published in 1954, six years after the end of World War II. By the time the novel was written, the first atomic bomb had been dropped, and the world lay in fear of a total nuclear war, especially as a result of Russian aggression. Golding felt oppressed by the US government - at this time of heightened nerves about Russian spies, the US government had the power to search anything and anywhere at any time, accusing seemingly random people of conspiring against the US. He felt that the only way to express his feelings against this without being accused of conspiring was to write a book, the boys in this a metaphor for many aspects of life, including aggression and instinct, conscience, rationality and maturity. Golding uses boys because he felt that everyone has the potential for evil, including young boys; his intended message and effect being heightened when these "innocent" boys loose all sense of morality and give in to their malevolent and evil side. Golding begins his novel with children being rescued from the scene of what is most likely a nuclear war in England, set sometime in the future. The innocents needed to escape the horrors inflicted during wartime; they needed to flee from man's cruelty to his fellow man. Ironically, on

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My character study on Piggy.

My character study on PIGGY I decided to write my character study on Piggy because I thought that he would be the most interesting character to investigate. In Lord of the Flies, Piggy was described as short and fat. 'He was shorter... and very fat' (pg 7), he also wore glasses which he had been wearing since he was three and had had asthma, which he seemed quite proud of. "I was the only boy in our school what had asthma", said the fat boy with a touch of pride. (pg 9) This also meant that he could not do any physical work on the island. Golding's descriptions of Piggy were sometimes cruel such as 'bag of fat'. Piggy was probably closest in age to Ralph and was named a 'big'un'. Piggy's real name was never known and he made no effort to tell people it. Before arriving on the island Piggy lived with his auntie in a sweetshop because his dad had died, though we never found out what happened to his mum. "My dad's dead, and my mum -" (pg 14) he didn't finish his sentence so we don't know what happened to her. This could mean two things. Firstly that his mum was also dead or secondly that he didn't know, or want to talk about what happened to her. He often referred to his auntie. I think it was because he missed her. He also couldn't eat chocolate because it made his asthma worse. It was quite obvious that at school Piggy was very clever as this was shown on the island by

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Who was the famous killer Jack the Ripper?

Jack the Ripper. During the fall of 1888 an unknown serial killer went on a "killing spree" taking the lives of five women. These murders took place in East End London, an area where the crime rate was very high. The East End of London was filled with prostitutes, drunks, and the poorest people. The killer chose prostitutes as his victims. The prostitutes he preyed upon were primarily over the age of forty and in a drunken state. The killer became known as Jack the Ripper after sending an anonymous letter to a news agency, using this alias as a signature. The killer was never caught or identified. Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, age 42 was one of his victims. She left her husband and had five kids. In the East side of London at 4:00 A.M. (1) Whitechapel police found Polly's body on the side of the street. Her throat was slashed two times, left to right, she had been stabbed in the groin two times, her breast had been cut open and she was mutilated and disembowelled. Jack did not take a thing from the woman. When she was found she had a hat on, and her clothes were pushed up. There was a comb, and a piece of mirror Polly used lying on the ground by her feet. Only seven days after Polly was found, the police found the second victim killed by Jack the Ripper: A woman named of Annie Chapman. Four days before she was killed, she'd had a fight with another prostitute. Annie was

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