Lord of the Flies is a terrifying novel. How far do you agree with this statement? What methods does Golding use? Lord of the Flies is considered a frightening novel, because of the message it conveys: there is darkness within all of us. Some people, like Simon, understand this concept and he says: ‘Maybe there is a beast... maybe it’s only us.’ Other people, like Ralph, do not want to believe that there is a dark side to humanity and in Chapter 2 he constantly shouts: ‘but there isn’t a beast!’ Golding successfully gets across his message that there’s ‘darkness in man’s heart’ by the frightening way he describes several events in the book.
The main investigation of this is through Marlow’s journey down the river and culminating in Kurtz and his compound. The journey down the river represents Marlow’s journey towards the darkness: in the framing scenes he describes the river in “the offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky – seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.” The feeling of this darkness is further emphasised by the contrast of the word “tranquil” and the images of darkness, “sombre under an overcast sky … heart of an immense darkness”. The idea of the darkness is further expressed by Conrad through the allusions to light and darkness as symbols of good and evil. For example when Marlow talks about Kurtz’s gift of
There is lots of wrath in this novella. Marlow is chatting with the bricklayer about how he and Mr. Kurtz want rivets. This made the bricklayer become very cold, and started to talk about an old hippo who would wander around the station during night. The pilgrims would empty their rifles at it. It was a waste of energy.
3.05 Fascination with Fear Part A The theme I developed from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Premature Burial” is Man must ignore the darker possibilities in life in order to survive. Examples from the text include the narrators experience he told about in the story. He awoke to the smell of dirt, nothing but darkness, the feeling of wood all around him, and silence of a sea that overwhelms. Since he cannot open the coffin he thinks he is in, he realizes that he must have fallen under an attack catalepsy in the presence of people who knew not of his condition. He screams, then to be shaken by four people, making him realize he is really in the tiny sleeping berths of a ship.
Traveling Through the Dark By: William Stafford "Traveling through the Dark" by: William Stafford is the most popular and frequently anthologized single poem he has written. It presents readers with an uncomfortable and rather depressing instance of the intersection of the natural world and that of man. In its broadest outline it reiterates the theme of confrontation between technology and wilderness, one which leads to danger in the end. Technology, in this case cars and the man-made road, are seen as something invasive and harmful in this poem. The poem is a narrative description of the poet's halt along a road at night leading to his discovery of a doe, victim of an earlier collision with another automobile.
Owen compares soldiers fighting in war to sick old men because it shows that soldiers are like outcasts from society. At the top left of the poster, the image shown represents the difficulty and the terrible physical outcomes, soldiers found travelling on ground particularly in sludges as Wilfred Owen states in the first stanza: “Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge” The use of the word Knock-kneed is alliteration for emphasis, a hard, staccato sound to echo the harsh mood of these lines and soldier’s misery. It stresses echo the brutality of the soldiers’ destruction, their transformation from healthy young men into ‘beggars’ and ‘hags’. The use of the word coughing compares men to sick women, showing how they are unrecognisable; they have lost their masculinity, youth, health and therefore are now deemed to be outcast’s within the society. The word sludge is onomatopoeia to imply how heavy and difficult the ground is to cross for soldiers.
These feelings towards a Government often occur in today’s society and the portrayal of this in V for Vendetta emphasises the discontent to the audience and presents us with a negative view on society as a whole; as it relates to people like Mugabe and his Government who control by fear and intimidation and are the centre of discontent. An extremely effective technique McTeigue used to present a negative view on society is dialogue. After the V destroys the Old Bailey the media report that the building was actually demolished for structural reasons. While watching this report on TV Evey’s co-worker exclaims, “Do you believe that load of bollocks?” This illustrates the unhappiness within the masses and the discontent they hold. Another example is a quote from Dascomb, “Our job is to report the news, not fabricate it... That's
This great build up of yearning to meet the malevolent and kind man known as Kurtz only to learn that he is a sickly old man that has been broken by white man burden is one of Conrad’s displays of modernism because this technique shows how man anticipations can twisted. This new plot of anticipation causes upset in the reader because they too were distraught by the real Kurtz. Most of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was written in a perspective that gave the reader a sense of first
Ones who died from these toxic gases were in a painful and miserable death. The ones that survived will never forget these images they saw and horrific experiences they had went through. Through Wilfred Owen’s imagery and Irony’s in his poem we can detect the tone, “Dulce et Decorum Est” is a horrific battle scene from World War I. The strong use of figurative language helps to interpret the real meaning of war. In the first line, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”, shows us that the troops are so tired that they look like old beggars, slouching from being so drowsy.
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is open to a myriad of interpretations, ranging from the psychological to the feminist perspective. However, none of those of views on the novel are comparable to the symbolic facet of the book. Using symbolism, Joseph Conrad illustrates duality, in every sense of the word, with the characters Marlow and Kurtz, and with nature and civilization; by establishing juxtaposition, Conrad conveys how the evil and darkness in a man’s heart can further be stimulated in a dark environment, which in the case of the novella, is the mysterious Congo River. The two main characters, Marlow and Kurtz, are arguably the most prominent symbols in the story. Before elaborating on the two characters, it’s necessary to digress, and mention that the ultimate goal in Heart of Darkness is to assail the imperialism that ran rampant in Conrad’s time.