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.
Another novelist by the name of Heinrich Mann, makes his opinion public in a political journal in 1931. He is very anti-war as well, frankly saying, “People are already worn down by the struggle of daily life then, more ready to submit” (Doc 10). The effects of the war were terrible on the people, and Mann knows that anything but a united republic would be disastrous for them all because of
Danger of Ignorance by Kantapan Ratchapon An abstract idea as ignorance is widely used as a theme in many literary works involved with religious or politics. An Enemy of People (1882) written by Henrik Ibsen is a play about politics and social issue as corruption related with ignorance of people. Ignorance can be viewed as an infected disease spreading widely throughout the town. The ignorance, as a consequence, obstructs the town from any developments. Besides, all kind of illegal or immoral activities would remain and root deeply in the society if most of citizens are ignorance.
Addiction to Chaos: The Monster that Lay Dormant Inside Chaos is a term used to describes situations that are erratic and lack order. This lack of order is something everyone to a certain degree has in common. All the people in the world have some form of chaos in their lives, but with authors like Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) and Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). A common motif that both of these books share is romanticism. By expressing a sense of rebellion against norms in society.
The War Poems of Wilfred Owen subtly target specific components of war, yet distinctive in the bitterness they embody. Significantly, Owen refrains from belittling, and disregards the presence of the literal enemy of England, that is the Axis Powers. Instead, redefining the ‘enemy’ as universal to all soldiers, that is, the War itself, and the inescapable death in which it resulted. In emphasising the irony of his situation, Owen’s poetry may, at first glance, seem vehemently anti-war, in actual fact however, Owen actually directs majority of his bitterness at the people who rallied troops, influencing decisions, without any knowledge of reality. Isolating himself from other War poets by ignoring the literal ‘enemy’, Owen instead acknowledges that War was universal to all soldiers, and therefore none was to blame for the consequences.
In Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club and David Fincher’s film adaptation both address the negative effects of society. Society has rules and norms that men and women have to abide by, and if they do not attain or obey theses norms, it causes a person to feel incomplete or imperfect. Terry Lee even states in his article entitled, “Virtual Violence in Fight Club: This Is What Transformation of Masculine Ego Feels Like,” stated that “[m]en cannot possibly meet the expectations, [and] fulfill all of the various and often contradictory roles: they can fulfill some of the culture’s expectations for masculinity, but never all of them,” (418-19). With Jack, the narrator, and Tyler Durden and their creation of Project Mayhem, Fight Club addresses the fact that the norms and expectations that society created are sometimes contradictory and impossible to attain. In the novel, as well as the film, Fight Club was no longer enough for the narrator, or Jack in the movie; thus the creation of Project Mayhem.
The poet is saying that people should not talk about war as enthusiastically as it gives the impression that war is glorious. Furthermore, he says that the idea that ’it is sweet and right’ to die for your country is entirely untrue. Through this, we are able to form the opinion that war is not okay because it is a serious thing that carries many negative consequences. In Wilfred Owen’s poem Dolce et Decorum est, the use of similes conveys the harsh reality of war on soldiers as it changes them dramatically and kills the majority of them. In the first two lines of the poem, Owen uses the similes “Bent double like old beggars under sacks, knocked kneed, coughing like hags” to paint a grim picture in readers minds of how the soldiers were.
Induction, then destruction who wants to die” and “War, huh yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, oh hoh, oh” shows that this protest song, about the Vietnam War, makes a broader statement of the need for harmony in our everyday lives. This song pumps me up, and makes me want to end war too. Every one who heard this song, looked at the war differently.
In the movie Crash, all characters are filled with prejudice and they would have to eventually confront their beliefs. Some characters may gain new sights and some do not. The theme of the movie was very simple. Everyone is prejudice and stereotyping is a main contributor to negative attitudes towards a group or individual. Basically, every character is prejudice, whether they are Latino, black, white, Iranian or Asian.
Grendel lives in the darkness and appears from the shadowy marshes in the darkness every night to kill. In Beowulf, he is described as evil in many words: “a powerful demon” (line 86), “fiend out of hell” (line100), “God-cursed brute” (line 121). Grendel holds no goodness within, he is only pure evil. He is the descendent of Cain, the first murderer. Grendel terrorizes the people of Herot for twelve long years.