Comparing Power In Lord Of The Flies, And Into Thin Air
Power in the Wrong Hands
In Lord of The Flies by William Golding, A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens, and Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer people in power use their position to corrupt others. This suggests people should be mindful who they put in power. In these novels the authors show that no matter what age, race, social status, or even gender a person is, if given some-kind of power and competition they have the potential to become corrupt. Also, these three writings demonstrate that fear gives the ability to control people or a person.
In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Madame Defarge knits a registry of all the people who are against her and the revolution. As Madame Defarge adds names to the registry the Jacques or revolutionaries …show more content…
Jack explains “Next time there will be no mercy” (Golding 31). Golding added “he looked around fiercely, daring them to contradict” (Golding 31). Jack tells that next time he will stop at nothing to prove to the rest what he is capable of. As a game all of the boys start playing that they are killing a pig; however, when the kids become overwhelmed they end up killing Simon. The boys chant “kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Golding 152). The boys chanting in the circle gradually become blood thirsty as they pretend to kill the “pig”. They kill Simon when he crawls into the circle for his turn to be pig. Because Jack has a desire for blood he shows no attempt to stop the boys from tearing Simon apart. Once He killed Piggy, Jack realized that he had the ultimate power of the island. Jack then screamed “see? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore!”(Golding 181). Warning Ralph that he is next to die and that the hunt for him is on. It is very clear to Roger and Jack that they can eliminate their threat, Ralph, from the island due to their power over the tribe of choir
In Lord of The Flies by William Golding, A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens, and Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer people in power use their position to corrupt others. This suggests people should be mindful who they put in power. In these novels the authors show that no matter what age, race, social status, or even gender a person is, if given some-kind of power and competition they have the potential to become corrupt. Also, these three writings demonstrate that fear gives the ability to control people or a person.
In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Madame Defarge knits a registry of all the people who are against her and the revolution. As Madame Defarge adds names to the registry the Jacques or revolutionaries …show more content…
Jack explains “Next time there will be no mercy” (Golding 31). Golding added “he looked around fiercely, daring them to contradict” (Golding 31). Jack tells that next time he will stop at nothing to prove to the rest what he is capable of. As a game all of the boys start playing that they are killing a pig; however, when the kids become overwhelmed they end up killing Simon. The boys chant “kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Golding 152). The boys chanting in the circle gradually become blood thirsty as they pretend to kill the “pig”. They kill Simon when he crawls into the circle for his turn to be pig. Because Jack has a desire for blood he shows no attempt to stop the boys from tearing Simon apart. Once He killed Piggy, Jack realized that he had the ultimate power of the island. Jack then screamed “see? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore!”(Golding 181). Warning Ralph that he is next to die and that the hunt for him is on. It is very clear to Roger and Jack that they can eliminate their threat, Ralph, from the island due to their power over the tribe of choir