Jack Lemmings To The Sea Analysis
Like Lemmings to the Sea
Civilization is a veil that through its rules and laws masks the evil within every individual. When the constraints of civilization vanish and raw human nature takes over, people draw away from reason toward savagery, ultimately leading to the downfall of society. In Lord of the Flies, author William Golding demonstrates the gradual breakdown of all civilized rules and order though a group of English schoolboys to fend for themselves on a remote jungle island. Henrik Ibsen, author of An Enemy of the People, portrays a small Norwegian town full of corrupt, self-interested characters, only interested in their own personal gratification rather than others. Both novels show how society begins to crumble; morally wrong …show more content…
Civilization still dwindled inside the younglings, veritable by their obedient nature. “Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the men with megaphones” (Golding 18). Jack, one of the older boys on the island, believes that in order for this civilization to thrive, “We’ve got have rules and obey them” (Golding 42). At this point in the story, the boys began to build up their culture by instituting laws and creating order.Henrik Ibsen portrays his own thriving society in a Norwegian village. The play is set in a small town in Norway that has just begun to develop the wings it needed to expand and become prosperous. This is in the most part due to The Baths; a business Dr. Stockmann and his brother Peter began, to cure the sick through spa treatments and rest. An Enemy of the People takes place in a town that has built a huge bathing complex crucial to the economy. All seems well to the Mayor of the city, Mr. Peter Stockmann, who claims “there is an excellent spirit of toleration in the town—an admirable municipal spirit. And it all springs from the fact of our having a great common interest to unite us” (Ibsen 132). Here the Mayor points out how the Baths unite the town. Having a common interest brings all the levels of society
Civilization is a veil that through its rules and laws masks the evil within every individual. When the constraints of civilization vanish and raw human nature takes over, people draw away from reason toward savagery, ultimately leading to the downfall of society. In Lord of the Flies, author William Golding demonstrates the gradual breakdown of all civilized rules and order though a group of English schoolboys to fend for themselves on a remote jungle island. Henrik Ibsen, author of An Enemy of the People, portrays a small Norwegian town full of corrupt, self-interested characters, only interested in their own personal gratification rather than others. Both novels show how society begins to crumble; morally wrong …show more content…
Civilization still dwindled inside the younglings, veritable by their obedient nature. “Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the men with megaphones” (Golding 18). Jack, one of the older boys on the island, believes that in order for this civilization to thrive, “We’ve got have rules and obey them” (Golding 42). At this point in the story, the boys began to build up their culture by instituting laws and creating order.Henrik Ibsen portrays his own thriving society in a Norwegian village. The play is set in a small town in Norway that has just begun to develop the wings it needed to expand and become prosperous. This is in the most part due to The Baths; a business Dr. Stockmann and his brother Peter began, to cure the sick through spa treatments and rest. An Enemy of the People takes place in a town that has built a huge bathing complex crucial to the economy. All seems well to the Mayor of the city, Mr. Peter Stockmann, who claims “there is an excellent spirit of toleration in the town—an admirable municipal spirit. And it all springs from the fact of our having a great common interest to unite us” (Ibsen 132). Here the Mayor points out how the Baths unite the town. Having a common interest brings all the levels of society