Lord Of The Flies Theme Analysis
The same themes often come up in many works, not due to plagiarization, but because these themes are reflective of human nature. The novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, depicts the regression of innocent, little boys into primitive savages when tossed onto an island with no sense of civilization. As each boy slowly transforms into a savage, civilization tears away its facade, revealing the evil that was always there. Eventually, after a couple of deaths, a ship of soldiers find the stranded children in the middle of their hysteria. Themes of the story involves fear, civilization, power, innocence, and more. Lord of the Flies shares many themes with Breaking Bad, The Revenant, and No Country for Old Men. Breaking Bad, a story of a
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The most prevalent similarity is the force of psychotic evil. While staring at a pig head, Simon hallucinates, “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt or kill” (Golding 143). In Golding’s novel, evil is always just a impalpable, looming atmosphere that could seep into each boy’s actions, but in the Coen Brother’s movie, a bounty hunter, Anton Chigurh, embodies that evil. For some reason, that evil is always a step ahead of its enemies, and knowing that fact, Sheriff Bell quits hunting that evil to save his own life. At one point, the evil, Chigurh, is unexpectedly hit hard for once: by a car running a red light. An unstoppable force is finally shown a weakness that everything shares: a lack of knowledge of all things unpredictable; but of course, evil picks itself up, sets its broke arm, and gets in its way. Where there is evil, however, there is that who opposes it. Chigurh flips a coin to decide the fate of Carla Jean Moss, “Call it”, he says, but Carla cracks back, “No, … the coin don’t have no say, it’s just you” (Coen 2007). Like Simon, Carla is one of the purest people in the story, being the furthest from crime. Having Carla and Chigurh together in the same scene creates the greatest dichotomy: good vs bad. Also like Simon, Carla immediately knows the evil and doesn’t want to play his game. This gives Anton Chigurh the most surprised look of the whole film. Unfortunately, the evil defeats the innocent, but the final scene of the film leaves some bitter-sweet hope for humanity. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell confides in his wife, after quitting the chase of the psychotic murderer, Anton Chigurh,by telling his dreams, “Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin … when he rode past
The most prevalent similarity is the force of psychotic evil. While staring at a pig head, Simon hallucinates, “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt or kill” (Golding 143). In Golding’s novel, evil is always just a impalpable, looming atmosphere that could seep into each boy’s actions, but in the Coen Brother’s movie, a bounty hunter, Anton Chigurh, embodies that evil. For some reason, that evil is always a step ahead of its enemies, and knowing that fact, Sheriff Bell quits hunting that evil to save his own life. At one point, the evil, Chigurh, is unexpectedly hit hard for once: by a car running a red light. An unstoppable force is finally shown a weakness that everything shares: a lack of knowledge of all things unpredictable; but of course, evil picks itself up, sets its broke arm, and gets in its way. Where there is evil, however, there is that who opposes it. Chigurh flips a coin to decide the fate of Carla Jean Moss, “Call it”, he says, but Carla cracks back, “No, … the coin don’t have no say, it’s just you” (Coen 2007). Like Simon, Carla is one of the purest people in the story, being the furthest from crime. Having Carla and Chigurh together in the same scene creates the greatest dichotomy: good vs bad. Also like Simon, Carla immediately knows the evil and doesn’t want to play his game. This gives Anton Chigurh the most surprised look of the whole film. Unfortunately, the evil defeats the innocent, but the final scene of the film leaves some bitter-sweet hope for humanity. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell confides in his wife, after quitting the chase of the psychotic murderer, Anton Chigurh,by telling his dreams, “Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin … when he rode past