This is due to it really being a conflict, and conflict is one of the major themes since almost every event or action in this book revolves around it. After Jack fails at his first attempt to kill the pig, he quotes “next time…” This is foreshadowing future slaying, pig hunts and his savage killing. The consistent pig runs and tribal dance shows the groups change into savagery and the loss of civilization on the island. This impacts the novel because in any situation where one is stranded and needs help and to be rescued, it is most important the people stranded remain civilized and work to achieve the group’s goal, which is obviously rescue. With the ruin of civilization all order on the island goes completely down the drain and no longer exists and it now becomes a struggle to survive and later pursue the intent of being rescued.
Through this detailed description, Gurganus adds to his argument, making the war sound even more horrific. He is trying to get people to see his perspective, and to make all the glory of war seem meaningless. We send these men over to live in terrible conditions and they don’t even know why they are there
While Jack was unable to make the fire, the narrator stated “His voice rose to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses off his face.”(Golding, 40) This quote shows how there is a need for Piggy’s glasses, Jack snatching the glasses off Piggy, gives the reader an illustration of how the glasses symbolize power, because without the glasses, Jack wouldn’t be able to start the fire, and the fire gives comfort and is the way to cook food. This is how Piggy’s glasses have a significant value of power. Thirdly, Piggy’s glasses also represent scientific knowledge. “His specs – use them as burning glasses!” (Golding, 40) The glasses represent scientific knowledge, which means that it can aid humanity, or destroy it. It aids the group of kids by starting the fire, but without the glasses, it can completely destroy humanity, because there would be no way of making the fire, which leads to discomfort and starvation.
Also when Burns does turn back towards the dead animals, he takes off his clothes. “He got up and started to undress.” But then “he cupped his genitals” proving his inadequacy to be a man. The genitals are a symbol of the masculinity he had to face during the war, his actions then cupping them suggests that he feels he has to hide the horrific images that he still has. “They didn’t seem to belong with the rest off him.” This could be taking away his masculinity. Another key theme that is explored during chapters 3&4 are the attitudes towards mental illness.
‘Witchgrass’ represents the nature. Through the poem, the ‘Witchgrass’ is speaking reproachfully to someone, but that someone retorts. So it becomes obvious, that the lyrical I is the ‘witchgrass’. There are several indications, which define that someone: he hates the ‘witchgrass’ (l.4), plants a garden (l.36) and ‘[attacks] the cause’, which leads to the death of his ‘previous flowers’ (l. 20-23). When you consider the fact, that witchgrass is something people do not want and see as disturbing, because of the fact that they take the hole water so that other plant can’t survive, which is why people eradicate it, than you will see, that nobody is meant but the man.
My analysis will start out by discussing the movies’ two main characters, Jack and Tyler Durden. Jack is played by Edward Norton, while Tyler Durden is played by Brad Pitt. It is actually very unsure if Mr. Norton’s character is actually named Jack. No other characters in the movie ever address him as “Jack.” “Jack” is only hinted at in one spots that I could find in the movie, a scene in which the name “Jack Moore” is shown on a check. Even in the credits at the end of the movie the character name is listed as “Narrator.” For the sake of this analysis I will refer to Mr. Norton’s character as Jack.
Reasons Jack and his tribe painted their faces The war paint is also a symbol. It symbolized the rejection of society. In a way, when they put on the mask of war paint, they took off the mask of society and revealed their true inner self which was savage. Jack's mask is used to represent the unleashing of evil nature that the polite society leashes. The painted mask initially scares the hunter Bill, but he then laughs and backs away into the jungle.
It is summed up in a singe word Man.``(p.4).This quote proves that human beings in the animals eyes are the reason behind all their suffering and that they should rebel against them to get rid of them. Next, the second role the humans had was that they were used as treats. Napoleon who later became their leader could not keep relying on blaming the humans for everything. The animals realized that they were not all being treated fairly. The pig squealer would come quick to the defence by saying that, pigs needed to be privileged because if they weren’t happy and healthy the farm would not prosper.
Considered a master of the short story, writing 54 of them, he wrote slowly but was successful in his writing endeavors. He had a movie made out of his book “The Natural” and won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “The Fixer”. He grew up during the great depression and his writing was very influenced by that. Bernard was born to Max and Bertha Malamud, Russian Jewish Immigrants, in Brooklyn, New York 1914. He got his Bachelors of the Arts from City College of New York.
The beginning of the poem is the speech of one leader, confidently bringing his listeners in front of the fact, that there will be a battle, and “If we must die—let it not be like hogs” (1). Hogs are castrated male pigs. Pigs are often used as a symbol of comparison among people, just because they are known as the “dirtiest” animals. Additionally, castrated pigs play a symbol of powerless. This way the speaker insists his allies to die like humans, like men.