What Seemed to be Recess In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of English school boys become stranded on an island that appears to be happy hunting grounds. The boys, acting on their first instinct, create a microcosm to model the society they have been so used to seeing. However, Golding emphasizes that savagery and evil exist in everyone and that the defects of the society on the island come from the defects in the boy’s character. Ralph, the protagonist of the novel, loses his innocence as a result of the primitive society on the island. Ralph is introduced as an optimistic boy.
Storytelling and Its Prominence Stories are simply theories that have gone through many generations of revising and editing, many of which may still be inaccurate today. However, no matter how imperfect a story may be, it is still effective and powerful enough to influence the ways in which we live. As once said by Ben Okri, “The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.” It is amazing how a combination of twenty-six letters can be held against us, define us, change our lives, and inspire us. Storytelling is important to human existence because it is a means of capturing memories of the past and incorporating them into ethical and everyday life.
Huckleberry Finn begins, “You don’t know me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter” (Twain 7). This opening passage helps the reader assume that, due to his use of slang, Huck is not well educated. The way Twain wrote allowed the reader to get a sense of the way people spoke back then and how different society was from the society of today. Due to his use of the common language, “’all modern American literature comes directly from … Huckleberry Finn” (Trilling 6). Alone, this profound influence on all American literature makes Huckleberry Finn worthy of being included in the canon of great American literature, but his exploration into a revolutionary relationship between a white boy and a runaway slave make it even more worthy.
Author O’Brian also confuses the reader by writing his novel as if everything that was told took place in the real world. For example, just by saying “this is true” (64) doesn’t always make it true. O’Brian leaves it up to the reader to distinct what they see the story as: reality or fiction. It is said that “a true war story… makes the stomach believe” (74). Author and character O’Brian tell the story in such a way to make it believable that the two different people are really the same person.
Simon is the only who has figured out the fear is has been created within themselves and that they are their own inner beast. Simon represents to be saint-like himself. There are some incidents in the novel that can relate to biblical stories. For example, the Garden of Eden can be related to Simon (being Jesus) meeting with The Lord of the Flies (the devil). When he is brutally murdered towards the end, there was a heavenly setting when the sea creatures glowed and pulled him into the sea; just like when Jesus was resurrected.
In William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies”, biblical references are used on multiple occasions. One of these references is Simon. Simon is one of the boys who crash lands onto the island. He is thought to be the Christ figure in the story. He represents good in all of the evils of the island, which is of importance in the book.
“Hereby it is a manifest, that during the time man live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war…” This quote, from the 16th century philosopher, Hobbes, states that mankind is naturally evil. Moreover, Hobbes believes that without a leader, everything would be chaos. For example, in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, there are many prime examples of Hobbes’ theory. The novel’s plot involves a group of English school boys who become stranded on a deserted island, but arrive in a good state of mind. As the novel progresses, the boys become chaotic after not having a dependable leader.
110683 John Abney English 10CP 9 October, 2010 I.C.E. Many people are not good writers, but many people are great readers. William Golding uses a character named Ralph, because he wants to show how much of an ego he is in the book. Golding does this by three ways, through Ralphs’ actions, traits, and motivations. In the novel, “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding he proves that Ralph is an ego in the book by keeping everyone together.
Williams has read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and where Julius Lester does not understand the novel, Williams does. He begins bye recapping the book’s long, history of censorship. “The earliest censors… believed the novel would corrupt the young” (Williams 98). In the story, Huck would spit and do rude things that were believed to be unsuitable for young readers at the time. These opinions have, however, changed.
The Lord of the Flies During the course of William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, there were three significant symbols that influenced the overall outcome of the novel. The storyline revolves around a group of young boys that were stranded on a deserted island and must figure out ways of adapting to their surroundings and surviving. The first symbol that was introduced and affected the entire novel was the conch that represented power and order on the island. The following symbol was an older kid known as Roger who was portrayed by the author as evil and brutality. The final symbol is the signal fire since measured the connection that was left to the real world and would be the kids’ only way to be rescued off the island.