Lord Byron
.... In our current century his reputation has dwindled to merely being known as a poet. His childhood was colorful to say the least. There is much evidence to suggest mental instabilit
was inherent in his family. Byron was born on Jan.22, 1788 in London. His great-uncle from whom he inherited the title, was known as "wicked Lord Byron"; his father army officer, was called "mad Jack" Byron. This wealth and the nick names of the Byron
en went back to at least as far a Lord Byr .....
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Lord Of The Flies
.... of Ralph. He had even suggested the implementation of rules to regulate themselves.
This was a Jack who was proud to be British, and who was shaped and still bound by the laws of a civilized society. The freedom offered to him by the island allowed Jack to express the darker sides of his personality that were repressed by the ideals of his past environment. Without adults as a superior and responsible authority, he began to lose his fear of being punished for improper actions and behaviour. T .....
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Lord Of The Flies
.... wrote Lord of the Flies. "In Lord of the Flies he [Golding] showed how people go to hell when the usual social controls are lifted, on desert islands real or imaginary (Sheed 121)." Despite being heavily involved in the war efforts during the second world war, Golding managed to not become a war novelist, this does however, somewhat explain why most of the conflicts in his books are basic struggles between people. "He [Golding] entered the Royal Navy at the age of twenty-nine in December 1940, and after a .....
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Lord Of The Flies
.... that can confuse the reader, but this happened rarely. I think all serious readers would like this book. Probably the people who could enjoy this book the most would be the faithful followers of Science Fiction and Adventure novels who might enjoy the stranger aspects of life. I also think readers who are interested in human behavior would relish this book because of the way it portrays the many sides of human nature, values, and morals. I will probably read this book again. It was such a good novel it .....
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Lord Of The Flies
.... English, and have the characteristics and personalities of normal pre-adolescents. A few quotes from the novel to demonstrate the realistic talking of kids, and not heros from fairy tales, are these: "Look i'm gonna say this now...." or, "when are we goin' to light the fire again?" This shows the realism of the novel. The boys are also not impossibly brave, but only as brave as they want to be. They are no cleaner than boys can be with no soap available, and they like to play, but not work. They are .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Book Report
.... is brutally slaughtered by the other members of the group. The climax of the novel is when the hunters are confronted by the fire-watchers. The hunters had stole Piggy's (one of the fire-watchers) glasses so that they may have a means of making a cooking fire. One of the more vicious hunters roles a boulder off of a cliff, crushing Piggy, and causing the death of yet another rational being. The story concludes with the hunters hunting Ralph (the head and last of the fire-watchers). After lighting half of t .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Analyzing Ralph
.... they look upon him as the most responsible of the boys and elect him as a chief over the humiliated Jack. Ralph creates a stable and peaceful society for the children to live; this significantly bothers Jack because he wants to have fun and do things that he never did back in the civilized society. Jack is eventually successful of pulling nearly all of the children out of Ralph’s control to form savages. Ralph represents the civilization, and Jack represents the primitive society.
Moreover, Ralp .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Chapter Summaries
.... and become angry because of the amount of kids who won't help. Ralph and Jack chat about each others views of their predicaments, and find that they are very different. Jack starts to become obsessed with hunting and killing pigs and loses sight of their goal- to be rescued. The younger children spend more and more time playing and less and less time helping.
Chapter Four: Painted Faces and Long Hair.
The hunters start painting themselves to stay camouflaged from their targets. Piggy suggests making a .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Character Analysis
.... actions and behaviours. This freedom coupled with his malicious and arrogant personality made it possible for him to quickly degenerate into a savage. He put on paint, first to camouflage himself from the pigs. But he discovered that the paint allowed him to hide the forbidden thoughts in his mind that his facial expressions would otherwise betray. "The mask was a thing on its own behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness." (p. 69) Through hunting, Jack lost his fear of blood and .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Civilized Vs. Savage
.... figure in their lives, just like they and back home in England. Like adults, the boys want to have a Prime Minister to tell them the truth and to guide them in the right direction. Different organizations were chosen to take care of certain elements, a leader was chosen to look upon them.
The savage side becomes evident with the power of the leader, Ralph, failing. Jack overthrows Ralph as leader. Jack is a savage child who manages to persuade all the other children to join his "tribe". .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Discovery
.... later, but at middle part of the story
he begins to doubting it. At end of the story, after the death of
Piggy, Ralph’s encounter with the Lord of the Flies, he knocks
over the pig’s skull. " A sick fear and rage swept him. Fiercely he
hit out at the filthy thing in front of him that bobbed like a toy and
came back, still grinning into his face, so that he lashed and cried
out in loathing." pg206 Ralph realize the evil is part of him and
just as to other boys. However, he is th .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Piggy
.... kids" as if was the adult on the island trying to help the "kids". More proof of his clear thinking is the fact that Ralph relies on Piggy’s good advice to succeed. Without Piggy, Ralph would be lost. As the story progresses we see the boys drift apart however we see Piggy try to retain order as an adult might. When there is going to be a fight he says, "Come away. There’s going to be trouble. And we’ve had our meat." He realizes the intensity of the situation and tries to .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Savagry
.... overcomes him with the thoughts of killing. Jack's savagery begins to come out when he breaks Piggy's glasses in the fight. Piggy's glasses being broken symbolizes how the boys are losing sight of what civilization has taught them. In addition, the fight shows that Jack is slowing losing self-control of his emotions. Jack loathes Ralph so much that he puts them in a constant rivalry with each other partly because Jack thinks about nothing more than hunting and killing, and Ralph still has some r .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Setting
.... as time goes by, things start to deteriorate, the boys are sick of doing their duties, and compassion and respect for others is lost, all of which make up a civilized society. This is highlighted with the Murder of Piggy and Simon. The crave for the hunt over being rescued, and the demotion of Ralph as chief.
The mysteries of the island also had a huge impact on the actions of the boys. Because The tropical island, and England are two totally different environments there was not much know to the boys .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Summary And Background Information
.... the story he tries to maintain the structure of their civilization and is continually forced to compete with Jack for approval from the boys.
Piggy is a fat, asthmatic boy with bad vision. Throughout the story his weaknesses are preyed upon by the other boys much like that of the "pigs" on the island, thus the name. But despite his appearance, Ralph begins to depend upon Piggy for intellectual and spiritual guidance. Do to his vision, Piggy had unusually thick glasses, which was a benefit to the others .....
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