Christina Braid Lord Of The Flies Summary
Braid, Christina Perez. "Kirsten Olsen. Understanding Lord of the Flies: A Student Casebook to
Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents." Utopian Studies, no. 1, 2002, p. 236. EBSCOhost, lrcproxy.iccms.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsgcl.91397759&site=eds-live. Accessed 17 March 2017. This is an article wrote by Christina Braid, an independent scholar in Ontario, Canada, as an explanation of Lord of the Flies’ use of contextual images and supplemental texts. It is explained that these contextual images symbolize a lot from modern society. Braid explores the novel’s use of symbolism to show that the novel relates to Christianity, WWII, science, human behavior, etc. She explains that through …show more content…
1, 1992, p. 78. EBSCOhost, lrcproxy.iccms.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.12223917&site=eds-live. Accessed 17 March 2017. This article mainly describes Lord of the Flies with Egyptian mythology. It described the civilized boys as Osiris and the savage group of boys as his brother, Typhoon. However, the article make a Christian connection in the novel. It moves on to describe Simon as a saint and The Lord of the Flies as Beelzebub. The article goes into detail that Beelzebub is the Hebrew translation of The Lord of the Flies and that it represents the devil. I will use article references of Christian elements to reinforce my second thesis. I will use this article to show that the Lord of the Flies represents Satan from the Christian …show more content…
8, no. 2, Nov. 2014, pp. 147-173. EBSCOhost, doi:10.5235/17521483.8.2.147. Accessed 17 March 2017. This article written by Eric Wilson that critically analyses Lord of the Flies’ theme. The article consists of evidence showing that the theme of the novel is that humans always go back to their instinctual patterns. The article also explains that the book can be portrayed as a spinoff of modern theories of human nature. I will use this source to establish the theme of civilization vs savagery in my essay. With the help of the article, I can show that the civilized boys were constantly fighting the savage inside themselves. In my essay, I will explain how if they did not fight this savagery, they would return to humanity’s prehistoric
Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents." Utopian Studies, no. 1, 2002, p. 236. EBSCOhost, lrcproxy.iccms.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsgcl.91397759&site=eds-live. Accessed 17 March 2017. This is an article wrote by Christina Braid, an independent scholar in Ontario, Canada, as an explanation of Lord of the Flies’ use of contextual images and supplemental texts. It is explained that these contextual images symbolize a lot from modern society. Braid explores the novel’s use of symbolism to show that the novel relates to Christianity, WWII, science, human behavior, etc. She explains that through …show more content…
1, 1992, p. 78. EBSCOhost, lrcproxy.iccms.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.12223917&site=eds-live. Accessed 17 March 2017. This article mainly describes Lord of the Flies with Egyptian mythology. It described the civilized boys as Osiris and the savage group of boys as his brother, Typhoon. However, the article make a Christian connection in the novel. It moves on to describe Simon as a saint and The Lord of the Flies as Beelzebub. The article goes into detail that Beelzebub is the Hebrew translation of The Lord of the Flies and that it represents the devil. I will use article references of Christian elements to reinforce my second thesis. I will use this article to show that the Lord of the Flies represents Satan from the Christian …show more content…
8, no. 2, Nov. 2014, pp. 147-173. EBSCOhost, doi:10.5235/17521483.8.2.147. Accessed 17 March 2017. This article written by Eric Wilson that critically analyses Lord of the Flies’ theme. The article consists of evidence showing that the theme of the novel is that humans always go back to their instinctual patterns. The article also explains that the book can be portrayed as a spinoff of modern theories of human nature. I will use this source to establish the theme of civilization vs savagery in my essay. With the help of the article, I can show that the civilized boys were constantly fighting the savage inside themselves. In my essay, I will explain how if they did not fight this savagery, they would return to humanity’s prehistoric