Lord Of The Flies Motif Essay In “Lord of the Flies”, William Golding uses symbols and motifs to convey his theme of the nature of mankind. In the beginning they are organized and behaving in a rational way. As the story progresses the boys become more and more savage until at the end they are hunting one of them with the intention of killing him. Through the book, Golding uses the conch, the fire, the hunting party, the clothing and the beast to convey that men are naturally savage without laws to control them. They are on an island after they survive a plane crash.
As Grendel twists in pain he snaps his muscles, splits his bones and his arm rips off (line 495-499). Beowulf has won this battle, Grendel runs off to die alone. Beowulf hangs Grendel’s arm from the rafters. In the morning everyone celebrates Beowulf’s victory, and they feast. That night while all the warriors were asleep, Grendel’s mother comes to take her revenge for the death of her son.
He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too.” Being angered because Jack’s tribe stole Piggy’s spectacles and because no one was listening, Piggy goes off to Jack’s side of the island with Ralph and the twins to show who’s boss around here and to retrieve his glasses. Once arriving there, Jack and Ralph have a mini battle. As this goes on, Roger tries to interfere, and ends up killing Piggy with an extremely large boulder. Piggy’s death signifies that all intelligence on the island has ended.
Summary of Chapters 7-9 As Chapter Nine starts, Eliezer and his father have managed to make it through selection and are placed on a carriage. During the trip, the SS officers order the prisoners to throw the dead bodies off the carriages and Eliezer struggles to protect his father from giving in to death. Each time the carriages stop, there are European men and women who throw bread into the wagons so that they can watch the prisoners fight each other to the death so they may get a bread crumb. Elie watches how hunger affects the prisoners as a young son murders his own father over a small piece of bread. As he is sleeping one night Elie feels hands wrap around his throat, trying to strangle him.
Upon Grendels defeat, Beowulf is looked upon as a great hero. Grendel runs away back to his lair where he would then die. “From Grendel”, tells Grendels point of view. Grendel walks into the mead hall desiring the taste of human flesh. He’s so arrogant and overconfident when he arrives to the mead hall, he wraps a table cloth around his neck to serve as a dinner napkin.
However, Outside in the darkness, lurked the monster Grendel. He gets angry, comes to mead hall, and starts killing people, but Hrothgar remained unharmed because he was protected by God. The coming of Beowulf was also similar with text by introducing Beowulf sailing across the sea to Hrothgar when help was needed to kill Grendel. Both in the text, and in the movie, Beowulf unlocked words deep from his hearts and talked about the Geats and his father, a famous soldier, Edgetho. Then that night Beowulf was awake, eager to meet with Grendel.
For the entirety of the story after this event, Odysseus fights his hubris and learns to keep his identity secret to everyone except people he completely trusts. 2. Laestrygonians (pages 168-169) Odysseus and his crew had a very harsh experience with the Laestrygonians. The Laestrygonians are man eating monsters who attack and kill Odysseus’s company. Fitzgerald describes the massacre as follows, “They gathered on the sky line to shoot great boulders down from slings; and hell’s own crashing rose, and crying from the ships, as planks and men were smashed to bits—poor gobbets the wildmen speared like fish and bore away.”(Fitzgerald 168-169).
Montag threatens Beatty with the flamethrower and burns his boss alive, and knocks his coworkers unconscious. As Montag escapes the scene, the firehouse's mechanical dog attacks him, managing to inject his leg with a tranquilizer. He destroys it with the flamethrower and limps away. Montag runs through the city streets towards Faber's house. Faber urges him to make his way to the countryside and contact the exiled book lovers who live there.
Next, during the biased trial, Mr. Glimmer continuously addresses Tom rudely, calling him “boy”: “Had your eye on her a long time, hadn’t you boy?” and “…do all that chopping and hauling for her, boy” (263, 263). Then, Tom also faces a cruel, harsh death, the manner of which a white man would never receive; he receives “seventeen bullet holes in him,” while trying to escape prison (315). Second, Mr. Robinson does good for others, seeking nothing in return. Every time Tom passes the Ewell residence, Mayella has a task for him to accomplish, such as chopping fireweed and toting water. Tom accepts no money for his assistance and is glad to be helping out to the best of his abilities.
Although Hrothgar told his men to stick by Beowulf, they instead ran and hid. “Suddenly/the sounds changed, the Danes started/in new terror, cowering in their beds as the terrible/screams of the Almighty’s enemy sang/in the darkness…” (Raffel 305-309). Hrothgar’s men did not show family unity towards Beowulf, even though his only reason for being there was to save their lives. Unlike Hrothgar’s men, the warriors that Beowulf brought along with him did not hesitate to get up and help Beowulf. The warriors that were with Beowulf, showed family unity by putting their lives aside when they thought their princes life was in danger.