Lord of the Flies - The Evil in Us All" 'The choir belongs to you of course.' 'They could be the army-.''or hunters'" ( Lord of the Flies pg. 21 ).That was Ralph's big mistake, giving Jack that power and the right to be hunters. Thatpower led to the fall of their civilization and the take over of Ja...

Lord of The FliesLord of the Flies a novel of pure brilliance or a novel of utter disgust? William Golding, a man to be looked upon in history as a man of sickening insights on human nature, wrote 'Lord of the Flies' with complete lack of confidence in the human spirit. He looks at humans as if to...

At the time Golding wrote the novel, Lord of the Flies, the world was caught in a war with itself. Certain events during WWII such as the holocaust led people to begin to question civilization and human nature. Golding uses the Lord of the Flies as a social criticism which analyzes how a civilized ...

The Innate Evil of Man In his novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses much symbolism to accomplish his moral, which is "man is basically evil." As one reads this novel, he or she will notice the way basic civilization is slowly taken away from the boys. From the very beginning of the story t...

Imagine a group of young boys who have just crash-landed on a deserted tropical island with no adults or supervision. William Golding showed in his ground breaking novel Lord of the Flies, what may happen in just those circumstances. In his very complicated and diverse novel Golding brings out ma...

Since the days of Adam, Eve and the serpent, society has had traces of evil even in the most "perfect" people. Today society is mounted with problem upon problem; essentially this supports the fact that man is inherently evil, as man's evil is what causes the problems. The novel Lord of ...

Change is InevitableIn literature there are many ways that a character can change. They may go from being happy to mad, from living to dead, or to sane to insane. In literature authors can show this is very obvious ways or in discrete ways. Lord of the Flies, "Before the End of Summer", and, " The N...

Aim To Kill Is throwing a ball in society today something a young boy would take for granted. But say the boy throws a rock instead of a ball, yet never actually hits anyone... is that still all right? Or may there be something rooted deeper? Could a simple throwing motion take a life? Or does ...

Shhhhhhhhhh! Is the sound I heard from the flames engulfing the forest of an island. Today was a really interesting day for me. I was making my normal routine border scan in my Naval Cruiser ship when I noticed an enormous amount of smoke rising up from a nearby island. My first thought on seein...