Animal Farm And Lord Of The Flies Comparison Research Paper

Orwell and Bradbury both did a tremendous job in developing the characters and the overall setting to help the reader understand the important message of the story. In Animal Farm, the animals may be animals, but in another reality of the story, they represent humans and ideas in a society. The animals can lie, manipulate, and train other animals to their own advantage as humans do. The consequences of lying, manipulating, and taking advantage of others, are destructive.

"Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.” Linking the movie and novel of William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” there are many apparent differences. Despite the common plot, Hook failed to give the viewers the right idea of what Golding was trying to convey. Likewise, it is not only a change with the actual story line but also with some of the ways the characters acted. The 3 major differences that were seen are the shattering of the conch, the pilot’s presence, and Ralph’s attitude towards Piggy. Due to these major differences the novel left a greater impact on its readers than the movie on its viewers.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic novel that is known as one of the greatest pieces of literature and has been for decades, because of how it relates to people and events that have happened. As the island is a microcosm of the world, the book mirrors what’s going on in the real world. The main themes of the book are Good Vs. Evil, Civilization Vs. Savagery, Power and Survival, which can easily be related to by most people - both now, when the book was written and probably also in the future.

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys who are lost on a deserted island and must do what they can to survive. At the beginning of the novel, two of the boys, Ralph and Jack, become leaders. These differences will form the main conflict in the story. The differences will cause them to hate each other and the anger that results is a recurring part of the plot throughout the novel. These two boys can be compared by the way they change, the reason for their actions, and the way they use or abuse power.

To consider how the outcome of the story may have been different an analysis of the setting is helpful. By studying the setting you find that Lord of the Flies may have been set around the 1950s - but this is only a guess based on information from the characters. Lord of the Flies is set during a fictional atomic war that you only hear about from the boys' conversations. During the 1950s, most women had reverted back to being housewives after the men had come back from the war. In Lord of the Flies you discover that the children's knowledge comes only from adults. We see an example of the adults’ teachings when Jack hunts for a pig; describing to the other boys how to kill the pig properly. The situation would have been different had there been female children, as generally the girls were taught how to cook and mother and not so much on how to kill.

In Lord of the Flies the boys go through lots of traumatic experiences mostly caused by a 'beast', whereas in Of Mice and Men Lennie and George go through the experience of working on a ranch. Even though in both novels each group of characters must go through some sort of challenging experience; in Golding's novel the boys barely survived on the island; although in Of Mice and Men their group has to just not anger the boss's son so they will not be kicked out. In Lord of the Flies it says " Behind him, the whole island was shuddering with flame."( Golding 289). They boys have set the whole island a flame by trying to survive on their own, on the other hand in Of Mice and Men it states "He just don't give a damn. Won't ever get canned

For starters, one of the main social commentaries in both works of literature is the idea of equality and a utopian society. In Animal Farm the main accomplishment Old Major wanted to achieve was equality, where “Weak or

Not every leader is power hungry. Some leaders are good with power but others can never get enough. They are never satisfied with how much power they have. They want more and more, no matter the sacrifice . In William Golding's Lord of the Flies and George Orwell's Animal Farm, secondary characters, who play the roles of spokesmen, enforcers, and followers, bolster the power of the leaders, there by ensuring the leaders' success.

     When a group of children become stranded on a deserted island, the rules of society no longer apply to them. Without the supervision of their parents or of the law, the primitive nature of the boys surfaces. Consequently, the boys live without luxury that could have been obtained had they maintained a society on the island. Instead, these young boys take advantage of their freedom, and life as they knew it deteriorates. Lord of the Flies is influenced by the author's life and experiences. Golding's outlook on life changes, due to his heavy involvement in W.W.II, to his current philosophy that "The shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual, and not on any political system

Despite having different storylines, backgrounds and plots, Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies are very similar in many ways. For example they share similar themes and meanings. Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is about a story that takes place on a farm that is run by all animals after getting rid of the owner Mr. Jones. When he leaves, a pig named Napoleon quickly becomes leader of all the animals and causes the farm to fall into a dictatorship instead of a Utopian society. This book captures and represents the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union under the rule of Joseph Stalin. In this novel, Joseph Stalin is represented as Napoleon. On the other hand, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is about boys who survive a plane

Animal farm is a book written during the early 20th century. It is a bestseller and has been used over generations as a way of teaching. In animal farm, the author george Orwell uses power of the leaders and the hardworking and the gullible characteristics of the follower to contribute to the theme which is loss of freedom and equality which is to be aware of your surroundings.

Two individuals may seem similar in appearance and outward self but it’s the inner character and diverse qualities of a person that distinguishes between two people. Many have the notion to think that since two people have the same outward identity then both will get along and be the best of friends, however, this is where the dilemma arises. George Orwell, an author of Animal Farm writes a tale about two pigs by the name of Snowball and Napoleon and how their bond destroys through disagreements and jealously towards each other which later on builds an eruption on the farm. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution that occurred between 1905 and lasted up to 1917 due to the controversies that occurred between the Bolsheviks

There are several differences between the Animal Farm novel and movie. Firstly, about the characters, the novel does show a lot of animal characters which movie does not have. For instant, the novel shows one of the story character, Mollie, has betrayed the animals by being with humans which leaves a large space for the reader to think more about behind the story and lends the reader believe that there may be more betrayers. However, for the movie version, it did not have the character of Mollie. The movie director has just keep the main character such as Boxer and Benjamin. As I remember, another difference between the novel and movie of Animal Farm is that in the novel the windmill gets destroyed twice but for the movie it only destroyed

The author of Animal Farm, Orwell, tells a story of a farmyard tragedy and the deadly lives of a group of animals. Due to the disappearance of humans, Napoleon abuses his power and gradually transforms into a human. Orwell also used animals to clarify that humans are corrupted due to power. The author of Lord of the Flies, Golding, shows a similar story where it is about life and death situation for a group of lost boys on a island that is trying to establish a democracy while on the island. Both authors of novels, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm demonstrate the comparison between the theme of human and animal nature in settings where traditional authority absent.

Animal farm by George Orwell introduces real life problems using animals on a farm. The narrator focuses on leaders. This novel talks about a group of animals that overrule a farm owned by a man named Mr .Jones, but the animals face many corrupt rules, freedom rights, enemies, and arguments between one another. The farm becomes overruled by a pig named Napoleon, and the animals are afraid to go against him. Napoleon soon acts like Mr.Jones and the animals freedom is getting taken away from their hands. The novel's main message was to believe those are seeking the truth- doubt those who find it. The novel relates to the theme because between all of the animals, their was many that were not being true to each other and the main character of the story was trying to lure the animals in a plan once he found out he could takeover the farm, just like how it was in the beginning when Mr. Jones owned the farm.