Confucius Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis
As Confucius, a very old Chinese philosopher, once said "Life is very simple, but we insist on making it complicated." The aspects that make our society more complicated and corrupted are our emotions and actions. Philosophers make the journey through our life more simplistic, by creating logical and sensible quotes based on real events that occur during their life. To create these quotes philosophers use the tool of didactical reasoning. If the characters in the tragedized book, "Lord of the Flies" heard about Confucius's philosophy, it may have caused them to experience less adversity.These characters experienced emotions such as fear and victimization which impacted them through the book in a negative way and were the factors of the
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On the day the plane crashed, they decided to choose a leader and so Ralph took a vote, "Who wants Jack for chief," "With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands." (23) In the book you can tell that the choir felt obligated to vote for Jack as their leader. The choir, scared that if they hadn't voted for him, he would treat them dreadfully. Almost everyone feared Jack because he seemed controlling and superior. But Jack was not superior to them and he also feared things too. For example, when Jack was not able to kill the piglet during their first attempt at hunting for food “because of the unbearable blood." (31) Since he had not killed the pig on the first attempt determined to kill a pig and this became his first and only priority. When he finally did kill the pig he soon became obsessed with hunting, this was the end of his innocence. Soon after Jack started to wear the mask. When Jack wore "the mask," he felt confident, "liberated from shame and self consciousness." (64) The mask symbolizes how Jack has changed throughout the book and makes him feel powerful which brings out the violence and cruelty in him. This makes him more selfish and greedy towards the groups do also where the group really starts to fear Jack. As you can see fear definitely influences behavior in bizarre ways and is what compelled the boys to do what they
On the day the plane crashed, they decided to choose a leader and so Ralph took a vote, "Who wants Jack for chief," "With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands." (23) In the book you can tell that the choir felt obligated to vote for Jack as their leader. The choir, scared that if they hadn't voted for him, he would treat them dreadfully. Almost everyone feared Jack because he seemed controlling and superior. But Jack was not superior to them and he also feared things too. For example, when Jack was not able to kill the piglet during their first attempt at hunting for food “because of the unbearable blood." (31) Since he had not killed the pig on the first attempt determined to kill a pig and this became his first and only priority. When he finally did kill the pig he soon became obsessed with hunting, this was the end of his innocence. Soon after Jack started to wear the mask. When Jack wore "the mask," he felt confident, "liberated from shame and self consciousness." (64) The mask symbolizes how Jack has changed throughout the book and makes him feel powerful which brings out the violence and cruelty in him. This makes him more selfish and greedy towards the groups do also where the group really starts to fear Jack. As you can see fear definitely influences behavior in bizarre ways and is what compelled the boys to do what they