Yet, it is very clear that the novel is greatly inferior. Harry Hook does not quite capture the character of Piggy, fails to include important symbols, and lacks the emphasis of order. First off, the movie portrays Piggy as a whiney and generally useless character. However, the book shows a very different depiction. Piggy is one of the first characters introduced in the novel, and he is described as "the fat boy", which encourages the reader to like him and sympathize towards him, even if nobody else does.
The way he was raised plays a role on the way he still lives. Grendel focuses too much on his reputation, he is a outcast and listens to the shapers stories about him. “I have become myself, the mama I’d searched the cliffs for in vain”(pg.80). In Beowulf the similarity is that Beowulf had a lot of the same qualities as Grendel, like how much Beowulf focused on his reputation. Beowulf always wants attention and to know how others view him, but he is also a outcast.
Since the boys are still relatively young when they crash on the island they lack a certain level of adult maturity; without any sort of adult authority figure, they are more inclined to be out of control. One thing Simon realizes towards the end of the novel is that the beast and the fear and evil it represents is actually a product of the boys’ own minds. This shows that it is not evil which is inside them, but a manufactured evil and fear towards a figure - in this case the “beast”. At the end of the day, they are still boys and the evil which Golding talks about is really just the boys’ minds corrupted by the island and the beast inside them. At the beginning of the novel the boys assemble and decide on the sort of society they want to build.
The structure Eliot uses in this first section has no obvious rhyme scheme and seems very irregular, which shows us that the hollow men are lost, and cannot escape, yet again showing stasis and the oddness of the “purgatory” they are in. He also uses caesura and enjambment with “Alas!” and “have crossed. With”. His use of these techniques gives the first section a slow and awkward mood and portrays the sadness of the “hollow men” who are stuck in this stasis. The form of section 1 seems to be very disjointed and especially Eliot’s lack of information on where the “hollow men” are.
Christopher changes into a stronger person mentally throughout the book. He is first represented as a boy with Asperger Syndrome, who is very blunt and does not understand the rules of socialism. He reacts quickly to situations he doesn’t understand or like by folding himself up into a ball and groaning, he also hates skin-ship with others as it makes him feel uneasy. “If a strange man touched me I would hit him, and I can hit people very hard.” As the book progresses Christopher finds himself in unfamiliar situations that make him have to face his issues, such as talking to strangers on his way to London, and allowing to be touched by his mother (even though he did not like it too much.) His sentences are always blunt and factual, there are never long describing words as Christopher thinks that it is far more logical to just say what you want to say without putting fancy adjectives in there.
The entire book is symbolic of the nature of man and society. In “Lord of the Flies”, the boys who are stranded on the island come in contact with various objects and humans. The objects and humans the boys come in contact with symbolize many ideas or concepts. One of the many symbols includes the boys themselves. The more time the boys spend their existence on the island, the evil within the boys has an effect on their thoughts and actions.
The boys in Coral Island are very good at heart, compared to the boys in Lord of the Flies where the boys are complete savages at heart. Ballantyne’s protagonists Jack, Ralph and Peterkin are all honourable and have a special bond which they keep throughout the novel and remain close. However Golding’s characters are all his interpretation of British boys (Yobs which if they roam away from adult control, plunge into savagery). In Lord of the Flies they begin as innocent children that are lonely on an island. Then, in a way, they become megalomaniacs who are unutterably savage.
This is apparently a problem to them, for the boy had no desires, given his incurable mental illness, “Mad-made objects…could be found in his abstract world.” The couple finally picked a basket with jellies for their son. This makes the reader deeply sympathise the boy’s plight, for a “young man” like him would usually have no interests in jellies which are a suitable present for children. It reflects what his sickness has reduced him to – a teen with intelligence of a child. The boy repeatedly contemplates suicide, and has had yet another failed attempt to do so, and the couple is unable to see him, for fear that “a visit might disturb him”. The couple is revealed to be at a rather old age, “At the time of his birth…now they were quite old.” Their son’s illness has put a huge financial burden on the little family – the father used to be a successful businessman, but is now “wholly dependent on his brother Isaac”.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS Argumentative essay Wuthering heights written by Emily Bronte is a story about an orphaned boy named Heathcliff brought in by Mr.Earnshaw who suffers at the hands of others, gains the sympathy of the readers. However his thirst for revenge destroys several innocent lives and thus earns him the status of a villain. Heathcliff one of the main characters of “Wuthering Heights” is the protagonist and also the antagonist of the story. To justify this we see that at the beginning of the book he is a protagonist and the readers feel sympathetic towards him. But as we go further we see his character change from a protagonist to an antagonist.
‘weep!” (3), shows the agony of the child who’s not even old enough to pronounce the term“sweep”. The child states, “so your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep” (4). The use of the “s” sounds hint towards the childs sadness at what life has brought him.Nevertheless, the child tries to make the best out of his situation & help others like “little Tom Dacre” and accept their situation, Tom cried at the loss of his innocence, but the child convinces him that it’s better that way because then, the “soot cannot spoil your white hair” (8). This means that the impurity & disgrace of his position can no longer touch him or hurt him. This nature is unusual for a child, but was produced because society pushed the child to mature into becoming an adult before he was even a child.In the poem an Angel tells Tom that if he is righteous and acts with the goodness of his heart then God will be his father and he would never wish for joy because he will forever have it.