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    For some individuals‚ sometimes it is not growing as a person‚ sometimes they are put in a situation where they are forced into doing things where they lose their innocence. Other times it is a dramatic event that occurs. William Golding wrote the novel Lord of the Flies and explored this topic of losing one’s innocence. The boys in the novel are put in a situation where they find themselves losing their innocence. They slowly start to lose their innocence in various ways. The boys kill an animal

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    Lord of the flies’ essay How does Golding explore the darkness of man’s heart in lord of the flies? To “explore the darkness of man’s heart” is one of the key themes in William Golding’s novel Lord of the flies. As the boys on the island regress from well-behaved‚ well-mannered children aching for rescue to cruel‚ bloodthirsty hunters who have no desire to return to civilization‚ the boys naturally lose their sense of innocence that they possessed at the beginning of the novel. This novel

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    Lord of the flies’ is an adventure story however it portrays a complicated and detailed storyline. William Golding utilises dialogue‚ in depth description of characters‚ illustrates a relationship between the novel and the bible and highlights the theme of good versus evil. By using a large amount of dialogue‚ Golding has created characteristics about the boys by the way they speak. Piggy uses slang showing that he comes from a low income family background‚ whereas Ralph speaks in a more proper

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    An allegorical fiction book‚ “Lord of the Flies”‚ by William Golding‚ takes place somewhere in the distant future‚ on the threshold of the next world war. A plane overturns on an unfounded island far from civilization. Amongst the stranded are boys ranging from toddlers to school age. The first characters introduced are Ralph and Piggy. Charismatic and good looking‚ Ralph is the main protagonist of this story. He is neither the most intelligent nor the most physically adept and represents order

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    William Golding’s Lord of the Flies Oh the dreaded 12th grade reading book was finally here and ready to present itself. The syllabus explained it all but of course none of us heeded the written warning. I assumed we were all hoping that our teacher would suffer from a lapse in memory and forget all about the mind-numbing three weeks of reading. As we sat in our seats a paperback book was passed down the rows. I watched as the stack that once held 12 books slowly start to dwindle down‚ and

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    the multiple meanings in objects‚ people‚ or even the words in it. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a story which expresses Golding’s idea of man’s essential nature in humanity being evil. In the book‚ Lord of the Flies‚ there is hidden symbolic meaning in the characters and these symbols show that the characters represent archetypes in humanity that prove his idea of man’s essential nature being evil. In Lord of the Flies‚ the character Ralph represents order‚ leadership‚ and civilization

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    In the Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding investigates the theme of civilization. Some boys are left on an island to fend for themselves. The idea of the book is that every human is born a savage‚ that it is our instincts. The book puts our characters alone without any guardian or government. Society can mask our natural ways‚ but it cannot completely change us. They decide to make their own civilization‚ in which Ralph is a figure of democracy‚ while Jack is a figure of Dictatorship. Piggy is the

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    In Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ conflict between two instincts of civilization and savagery is the driving force of the novel‚ explored through the dissolution of the young English boys’ civilized moral behavior as they accustom themselves to a brutal barbaric life in the jungle.  As conflict rises between the groups of boys‚ a theme of polar opposites such as good vs. evil‚ order vs. chaos can be seen through the young men’s transparent demeanor. The central concern of Lord of the Flies

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    “If there is no one around to guide children‚ then they go wrong...” says the author of Lord of The Flies‚ William Golding about a topic in his acclaimed book (Golding). In Golding’s novel a group of boys become stranded on a tropical island‚ and begin a slow descent into madness. One of the boys‚ Roger‚ kills another named Piggy by pushing a large rock which knocks Piggy to his death. While it is true Roger committed the crime he may not be psychologically healthy. Roger does in fact exhibit signs

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    Golding uses the conch in the novel to symbolise democracy and civilisation. Golding wrote the novel as a parody to R.M Ballantyne’s novel “Coral Island” in which a number of boys are placed on an island‚ their behaviour is civilised and Ballantyne suggests though out his novel that the Pirates and savages are the only people on the island that had the potential for evil. Golding contradicts this as he wrote Lord of the Flies after WW2 and the ‘Cold War’ he was horrified at mans capacity for evil

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