Analysis Of John Steinbeck 's ' The Flies '

“In a 2005 survey about gay bullying statistics, teens reported that the number two reason they are bullied is because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender expression”, according to bullyingstatistics.org. It has also been shown that those who are bullied themselves often go on to bully others because it is all they know, or that bullying covers up their own shames. The character Jack Merridew in Lord of the Flies is not evil like many would argue, but rather is ashamed of the fact that he is gay and closeted. This is supported by the hunter’s casting off of religion and government, Jack’s inability to hunt unless in front of other boys, and the beast as a symbol.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

Children all fear the dark because of what it may contain as darkness the the manifestation of the unknown. Many people fear the unknown rather than embrace it because fearing the unknown provides them with a sense of control regardless of whether or not it is an illusion. This is shown in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, with Jack who uses the concept of the Beast to gain support from the littluns and eventually rises to power within the group of boys.

Humans develop in societies with rules, order and government, but humans are not perfect, they have many deficiencies so do the societies they live in. When a group of schoolboys land on a tropical island, Ralph takes on the role of leader by bringing all of the boys together and organizing them. He first explains “There aren’t any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves.”(p.33), this brings up the question if the boys will have prosperity or will they succumb to the evil on the island. At first the young boys start being successful and civilized, but chaos soon overruns them and evil starts to lurk over the island.The fictional story of the group of British schoolboys stranded on an island and the decisions they make, relates back

Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. It is about british schoolboys who are stranded on an island after their plane is shot down. They are on the island with no adult supervision. Their group is civilized but turns to savagery. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the characters of Ralph, Jack, and Roger to symbolize that there are violence, evil, savagery, and good that exist in every society.

In the novel, Jim Casy serves as a Christ-like figure. First, we can consider the obvious similarities between them. They share the same initials. In both cases, the figure has twelve primary followers. In Christ's case, there are the twelve apostles. In Casy's case, there are the twelve Joads: Granma, Granpa, Uncle John, Al, Ma, Pa, Tom, Noah, Rose of Sharon, Ruthie, Winfield, and the unborn baby. These two similiarities, though, could be simply coincidence: "J. C." are fairly common initials, and twelve is not large enough of a number to really require explanation. More importantly, Casy is the person with the most ties to organized religion that we meet in the novel. He is a former

Although many things are stated outright in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the book is rich with symbolism and subtext. The story starts with British school boys being stranded on an island after escaping a threat of nuclear war. The boys elect fair-haired Ralph as their leader, but Jack, a fiery choirmaster of some of the boys, is jealous and the story quickly goes downhill from there, leading to aggression, mayhem, and murder. Throughout the novel, there is also a mysterious and imaginary beast that haunts the minds of the younger boys. Lord of the Flies has many details, many of which are symbols or have implied meaning. One of the most important examples of subtext is Simon, the strange, ethereal boy who aligns himself with

Stranded on an island, a group of boys have the choice to be civil or savage. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, British schoolboys are marooned on an island. They voted Ralph to be the leader in an effort to remake the culture that they had left behind, accompanied by the intelligent Piggy as counselor. But Jack wants to be the leader too, and he individually lures all of the boys away from civility to the brutal survivalism of hunters. The conch symbolizes power, respect, and social order. Within the Lord of the Flies, Golding provides a brief look at the savagery that controls even the most civilized human beings. William Golding mirrors our modern day society by

Hidden meaning can be found in many different places. They can be in poems, novels, murals, paintings, and even in everyday life. Hidden meanings are there to challenge the reader, to make them think and really analyze the work. In the case of the novel “The Lord of The Flies,” by William Golding, the hidden meaning comes to us in the form many of his characters. One of them is Jack. Jack started off like everyone else equal with power or a share of the things on the island. Later on he takes a group of the kids. Now there are two groups of the kids. Showing that sooner or later a group may later split into two groups and people will have to chose a side. Jack lead his

Throughout the novel Steinbeck constantly enforces evidence of biblical correlations adding even more meaning to the entirety of the events and characters that are described in the novel. The similarities between Jesus Christ and Jim Casey are highlighted numerous times throughout the book allowing the readers to develop a much deeper meaning and analysis of

Lord of the Flies Analytical Essay The Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the Salem Witch Trials, Milgram's Experiment, Lord of the Flies written by William Golding and the Stanford Prison Experiment are all fictional and historical events that show the evil and cruelness deeply rooted within all of us. They all at one point showed that the corruption of power, chaos, and the absence of civilization, causes good people to go against their human nature and do cruel things. In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding creates a fictional island in which a group of boys that survive a plane crash try to create their own running and functioning civilization. As time passes and tension rises a rumor starts to spread among the “settlers” that a supposed beast is roaming the island. As the beast becomes more and more

William Golding can be clearly seen as a writer who knows what he is doing. From vivid description down to the most scrutinous detail to his plethoric of symbolism seen throughout the novel, it is clear that he is an experienced writer. From his other books like The Inheritors and The Scorpion God it can still be seen that one of his earlier books, Lord of the Flies, is truly one of his greatest masterpieces. That book would also be the topic of this essay, and from the very beginning was obviously a piece of literature that has aged well despite its year of publish. From the stranding on the island to the undertone of war seen throughout it grips the reader and never lets go.

Religion is a controversial topic in modern society, whether it the topic of God existing or the fear of a certain religion and its followers. Regardless, in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, a book composed of numerous short stories, there is a story that clearly drives a connection between religion and the characters: Jesus Christ’s Half-Brother is Alive and Well on the Spokane Reservation. In this story, Alexie uses a biblical analogy to create the character James, a mysterious young boy who does not speak for much of his early life, to give an allusion of the Bible and James. Later, we see the unnamed narrator caring for James after his parent’s death of a house fire, giving yet another allusion to the narrator and a follower of a religion. At the conclusion of the chapter, James’ muteness has gone away and begins to speak lessons that give the narrator meaning, alluding to the Bible once again. By using allusion throughout the chapter, Alexie gives us a hopeful future for the characters, much like religion gives a hopeful outlook towards the future for its followers.

Ralph’s beginning to worry about our future on this island, and now so am I. I can’t help it. Ralph is our leader, he can’t be worried. I do believe that Ralph has the ability to keep us all in line; He has been showing that a lot lately, especially regarding the whole fire situation. But if even he’s worried, what is that going to show all of the younger boys? They’re going to be scared and worried as well, and that won’t help anyone. If Ralph isn’t sure of himself, then what makes him think that people will want to listen to him over Jack? Jack makes things sound enjoyable and appealing, and that’s why so many of the boys follow him. He’s like a cool, older sibling that everyone wishes they had. The only thing about that is the other boys

Although Xavier arrives home, Niska strives to keep him alive. Niska is not sure how to heal the wound Xavier has, because it is one she is not familiar with. Niska believes in the healing power of stories, so she tells Xavier her history as he sleeps and dreams to keep him alive (35). Niska hopes that “maybe some of the poison that courses through him might be released in this way” (89). The morphine takes Xavier’s appetite, so Niska “[feeds] him with [her] story instead” (130). Niska’s story about Sister Magdalene makes him smile, and Niska knows she is helping in some way and gives her hope. Niska talks to Xavier while he is asleep “so that the medicine in the tale can slip into him unnoticed” (259). Through Niska’s last story Xavier struggles with the pull of death, but as Niska keeps talking Xavier calms and breathes easier. Niska’s lessons help Xavier in the war, but her stories help him when he comes home. Xavier’s wounds are foreign to her, but she uses the power of words and the medicine of stories to heal him, and she is the reason that he survives.