Character Analysis Of Katherine Mansfield's The Fly

The fly, much like The Boss, experienced uncontrollable life changing distress that will alter the way it continues to live. After several attempts to save itself, the fly could no longer continue fighting and was left with no other choice but to die. “Nothing happened or was likely to happen. The fly was dead.” (278) In both situations

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of British boys suddenly become stranded on an island, all alone, forced to form their own social system. Throughout the novel, William Golding reveals his main character 's strengths and weaknesses in their attempts to lead. The character Piggy demonstrates the benefits and limits of intelligence in maintaining civil order.

All our personalities compare to a character from Lord of the Flies, and I found myself to be an ENFP or an idealist; someone most comparable to Simon. An ENFP or an idealist personality displays characteristics of being extroverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving which. Furthermore, passionately concerned with positive improvement, being kind, warm, sympathetic, distracted and motivated were all trait described in the personality test for the ENFP. Due to our selflessness, how introverted and extroverted we are, and how we can think both logically and emotionally, makes Simon and I most similar.

Piggy, Ralph, Jack, and Roger were all crucial characters throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding. All these characters made questionable decisions that when combined, contributed to Piggy’s necessary demise. Although some character’s decisions had a greater impact than others, they were all responsible in some way. Piggy’s stubborn behavior, Ralph’s lack of leadership, Jack’s power hungry and irresponsible behavior, and Roger’s unstable mental state all contributed towards Piggy’s passing. All this contributed to Piggy’s death and were necessary to the survival of everyone on the island.

Timothy Findley’s The Wars portrays the effects of war on soldiers in battle, as well as the members of family and friends that suffer from loss and insanity. As each character over the progression of the story is exposed to change, the character’s ability to adapt has a significant correlation with their survival, those that can quickly adapt to survive can manage to get by. Soldiers must be able to suppress the extreme stress on the battlefield. Those that cannot overcome these challenges do not survive in war. Murder is quickly pushed out of a soldiers mind, killing others in effort to protect their own life or the life of others around them. Findley demonstrates how war can negatively alter a person’s behaviour. This is seen through

War is an omnipresent evil. At times it might be necessary, as in stopping a tyrant from oppressing a society, but at other times, it causes more harm than good. War has demolished entire communities, reshaped lives, and damaged individuals’ mental stability. Not until recent centuries has the impact of war on a person’s psychological state been considered. One book, which was published in the middle of the twentieth century, Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, is able to show the various possible results war can have on a person’s mind. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut is effectively able to portray the psychological effects of war through Billy Pilgrim and his fantasies, his indifference, and his alienation because of Vonnegut’s own personal experiences in war.

The fear of being judged by others for being incapable of taking care of his children also develops his lonely personality. Overall, both texts show how different forms of psychological effects, such as losing a close friend to the war, can cause extreme anguish to

A lot of the characters are portrayed as basically good, for the most part. Like Ralph, Simon, Piggy, and Samneric.They were good most if not all of the time. However some characters were written as basically evil, according to Golding’s idea of evil. Those characters being Jack and Roger. Even though a good portion of the characters represented good Golding still thought that men were naturally evil. While most of the characters are good most of the time there is still a point when they are all evil.

In the book Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, there are a group of boys deserted on an island after their plane crashed. This book shows that without society ruling what is right and wrong, it is up to the person to follow the rules or break them. Jack is an example of someone who deserts the morals and rules of society to follow his own needs. Ralph proves that if someone stays in the ideology of society and their rules then they would stay humane. While Piggy proves that just because a person is born with evil and listened, that person can still change. That is how Jack, Ralph, and Piggy show that evil within a person is not caused by the environment, but is affected by it.

Humans are naturally never satisfied with what they have and strive for the highest amount of authority. People all crave the right to be heard even though being given too much authority can lead to anarchy and belligerent problems. In the book, Lord of the Flies the two main characters Jack and Ralph, work together to liberate themselves and other boys off of an island, while attempting to not cause a mutiny. Throughout this book, there are multiple messages about leadership that are expressed through motif. Being a leader not only gives the person a title of respect but is also a role that contains a lot of responsibility. In LOTF, both Jack and Ralph fight to be that respected person within the group which by the end led to enmity

"When she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying" shows a change on Miss Brill, and that tells us that she realizes her reality about the isolation in her life after hearing the couple's conversation about her. However, the boss realizes nothing, even though he also cries for his son. The only thing the boss does at the end of "The Fly" is he kills the fly, but doesn't tell the boss chooses to face his son's death or not. Therefore, the boss is the protagonist who remains the furtherest from reality at the end of the

He overwhelms his son by taking control of his future and planning out his life. The boss’s plan for his son is to take over the business which gives the son no other choices or opportunities concerning his future. “Ever since his birth, the boss has worked at building up his business for him; it had no other meaning if it was not for the boy” (Mansfield 508). It seems as though the physical action of the boss smothering the fly is associated with the sufferings that his son has experienced. Both the boss’s son and the fly go through similar yet different forms of suffering throughout their lives. Interestingly, while the fly is struggling to live, the boss utters, “Come on, Look Sharp” (Mansfield 509), just as he would say to his suffering son. Both the fly and victims of wartime fighting (his son) are innocently killed by cruel forces over which they have no control (Schoenberg).

William Golding's Lord of the Flies explores two sides of human nature: goodness and peace juxtaposed against cruelty and violence. When Jack first arrives on the island, he is civil and cooperative. As time carries on, Jack begins to develop savage characteristics. The consequences of war, from both the outside world and on the island, extinguish any bit of humanity left in Jack which ultimately shows that man's true nature is evil.

A single moment in life can help one realize one’s place in the world. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies the main character Ralph is shocked into the realization that power can corrupt one’s logic after he is shipwrecked on an island. Through this realization Ralph discovers that his place in the world is to stand up for what he believes is right even if it is not the popular opinion. He shows his comprehension of both realizations through two main events in the novel: giving the conch its power and the prolonged argument over the importance of the fire with Jack.

The boss, although portrayed to be devastated over the loss of his brave son in World War One, is an allegory for the war generals. This is shown by the use of control and power, childlike actions and lack of reflection on his actions. From the beginning, the boss establishes that he is in control. He speaks about the new upgrades he has done to his office to Mr. Woodifield and, “It gave him a feeling of deep, solid satisfaction to be planted there in the midst of it in full view of that frail old figure in the muffler.” (Mansfield 1). Even though Mr. Woodifield is five years his junior he sees himself as above him. This mood is established very early in the story and shows how he enjoys being in control and being superior, like a war general. The boss lacks compassion and basic humanity after he is done “playing” with the fly. When the fly is finally finished fighting for life, the boss, “... flung it into the waste-paper basket.” (6). This shows how disposable the generals thought the soldiers were; after one is dead, they are discarded and life continues. This over-playing is also childish. Mansfield may be implying that the generals were quite childish, by mentioning how Mr. Woodifield was peeking around to see the boss, “... as a baby peers out of its pram.” (1). Even though it is not the boss doing the peeking, the fact that the childness was noted is an indication of Mansfield’s perspective of the generals. Despite the boss’ son fighting and dying in the war, the boss does not learn anything from this similar event with the fly. He forgets what he was thinking about before the fly dies and wonders, “What was it? It was… For the life of him he could not remember.”(6). The tragedy of war is often blinding. This blindness caused by those traumatic events lead to a lack of understanding. Without an understanding of