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    the bugs in your back yard‚ to when you turn 18 and join the army to be trained to kill. These kinds of things happen every day but rarely do you see them portrayed to the extent of what is really happening‚ in writing. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ Golding uses characters like Jack Merridew and events like the pig kills to perpetuate the concept of fear and show the more brutal side of human nature. Although Jack takes charge of awkward situations‚ Jack uses fear to gain

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    Being stranded on an island with no parents is a difficult situation to adjust to. In the book Lord of the Flies‚ written by William Golding‚ Simon is a young‚ deep character who finds himself alone. When being trapped on the island‚ this inspirational character is deteriorating inside‚ as he tries to help those around him. The kind-hearted boy is a very calm‚ quiet and shy person‚ who does not take stress well. Even though‚ he seems happy on the outside‚ there is a side of him none will see. The

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    Are humans naturally bad people? According Lord Of The flies we are. In the following essay you will see a significant amount of evidence that people are indeed bad‚ but there is also a silver lining to show that people can be good. Author William Golding wrote this after being in World War II‚ so he was most likely mentally unstable and pessimistic over the events he had just seen and been a part of which is a main reason as to why he thought that humans are horrible‚ evil people. Exhibit A‚

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    The classic novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding revolves around a group of young boys from England that are isolated on an island after their plane crashed. With the pilot dead and no adults around it is up to the older ones to take charge. This Nobel Prize winning novel features four distinct characters; Piggy‚ Ralph‚ Jack and Simon. It is up to these boys to make all the difference on the island. In order for the boys to survive on the island while waiting for the adults to rescue them

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    The book‚"Lord of the Flies" parallels exactly to the horrible accounts of the Holocaust. It took place during the same time‚ and many ideas and events are very similar. The Holocaust was a huge inspiration on Golding’s book‚ and like the Holocaust‚ Golding creates a setting‚ that’s in a sense‚ secret. They also both took place during World War II. Just like in the beginning‚ when the boys first landed on the island‚ before the Holocaust even began‚ the boys were unified as one tribe. However

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    How does Golding use violence in the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’? In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’‚ Golding uses the theme of violence surfacing throughout the text. One reason for this was‚ Golding believed that every individual has the potential for evil and that the flawed human nature is seen in ‘mankind’s essential sickness’. His belief in this arrived through his time spent in war‚ so his aim was to challenge Ballantyne’s novel ‘Coral Island’‚ and in which Golding’s book the truth would be

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    William Golding supplied his story with a lot of literary color‚ making it alive and vivid to the reader. The character that stood out the most was Ralph‚ who was the novels protagonist. The twelve year old English boy‚ who was elected leader of the boys in the beginning of the novel‚ is the primary representative of order‚ civilization‚ and productive leadership in the novel. Ralph attempts to organize the boys’ efforts to build a miniature civilization on the island until they can be rescued. Ralph

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    can’t see in the dark‚ they don’t know what’s on the island‚ they’re unsure of what the beast really is‚ and they’re ignorant of the depths of their own violent capabilities. In Lord of the Flies‚ fear is neutralized by the realization that the only thing the boys have to fear is fear itself. In Lord of the Flies‚ fear becomes paralyzing and unbeatable by the realization that the only thing the boys

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    nature that lives just a word away inside the boys and while the boys are afraid of it‚ this could only be because it is inside every one of them. Simon is the one who actually realizes that the beast is in each one of them when he meets “The Lord Of The Flies” As boys like Jack become crueler throughout the book‚ the belief in the beast increases until at the end Jack’s tribe are leaving it food as a sign of respect. “snakes‚ snakes look at the snakes”p60 “The unfriendly side of the mountain”p60

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    Golding explores the vulnerability of society in a way that can be read on many different levels. A less detailed look at the book‚ Lord of the Flies‚ is a simple fable about boys stranded on an island. Another way to comprehend the book is as a statement about mans inner savage and reverting to a primitive state without societies boundaries. By examining the Lord of the Flies further‚ it is revealed that many themes portray Golding’s views‚ including a religious persecution theme. Golding includes

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