Consequences of War in the Short Story, The Fly by Katherine Mansfield

In addition to his actions, Simon’s encounter with evil further characterizes him as a Christ figure and an oracle archetype. The novel’s title, Lord of the Flies, originates from a mistranslation of Beelzebub, another name for the devil. The sacrificed sow head on a spear, called the Lord of the Flies, symbolizes the devil. Since Simon’s confrontation with the Lord of the Flies occurs in the midst of a delusion, it can be considered a prophecy similar to an oracle’s vision. Both Christ and Simon meet with the devil while in altered physical states. Simon’s confrontation with the Lord of the Flies is a result of severe dehydration and an epileptic fit indicated by “a pulse [that] began to beat on the brain” which parallels Christ’s meeting with the devil during the forty days he went into the wilderness without food or drink (Golding 138). In his vision, Simon realizes that “things are what they are” because

Also, when Reuven saw that the spider had created a spider web, it can symbolize how Reuven was looking from the outside-in to an entire different life for Danny and how Reb Saunders had created a world of Hasidism that Danny was confined to. Moreover, Chaim Potok used the fly’s actions to convey a message about Danny. As Reuven was observing the fly he noted, “The fly’s tiny black legs flayed the air fiercely, then its wings were free again, buzzing noisily, but it’s body remained intact” (Potok 174). Danny can be seen as the fly because he was being kept from the outside world by his father, the spider, with his “web” he created in order to ensure Danny became a

In the book, Lord of the Flies, a group of boys are stranded on an island. Unable to keep order, the island goes into chaos. Throughout the book there are many symbols that relate back to the real world and society. One boy, named Simon, who symbolizes innocence, purity, and goodness, has a secret hideout on the island where he can rest away from the pandemonium of the other boys. In this hideout, there are butterflies flittering around that represent the followers of good. When Jack places the stick with the pig’s head into the secret area, flies, which represent the followers of evil, are quick to come and drive out the butterflies. This is significant because this transition in occupation of the secret hideout symbolizes the shift on the

Throughout the novel Lord Of The Flies, the boys on the island are continuously faced with numerous fears. Subsequently there is nothing on the island which they fear more than the beast. The beast is not a tangible object that can be killed or destroyed by conventional means, but an idea symbolizing the primal savage instincts within all people. Its Golding’s intention to illustrate the innate evil inside man through his view of human nature, the actions of the Jack and his tribe, and the relationship between the beast and the school boys.

The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is an allegory that connects the boys’ behavior in the novel to the basic behavior of human nature. In the novel, the boys fear a wild beast that has the potential to kill them off. However, Simon, a quiet boy, finds that the beast is not an animal that everyone should fear, but is a part of each boy himself.

Explanation: We finally learn what the Lord of the Flies is. It says that it’s the Beast, but it’s not the parachute guy version of the beast, it’s the one Simon tried to explain, just the evilness of mankind.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding was influenced strongly by his experiences as a naval officer during World War II. Golding’s wartime service gave him a darker and more realistic look on life, and contributed to the novel’s imagery. As Golding described, World War II woke him up from his falsified beliefs about human nature by showing him the true human condition (“Lord of the Flies,” Novels 175). Lord of the Flies, as Golding explained, is “an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature” (qtd. in “Lord of the Flies,” Novels 189). William Golding based much of Lord of the Flies on his World War II experiences, which provided for a more realistic and accurate

The narrator though an educator, is not very good at verbalizing his emotions. He tends to be the person who keeps everything inside

The men of the story, namely John, the protagonist’s husband, plays the role of the active working, dominating male who is the sole authority of his family and regards himself as intelligent and wise. John exemplifies the working man of his day, working all day and sometimes late into the night. John is a physician who recognizes the compromised state of his wife, but only chalks it up to temporary nervous depression. Playing into his gender role, John takes charge in treating and helping his wife, believing in his superiority and knowledge. One night when the protagonist confronts her husband to tell him that she really is not gaining anything from being secluded in the mansion and wishes him to take her away, he only replies with, “. . .I cannot possibly leave town just now. Of course if you were in any danger, I could and would, but you really are better, dear, whether you can

The young waiter has a harsh view of him as well because on occasion the old man has been so drunk he walks out on his bill. The younger waiter has a different respect for time, it’s precious to him and he values it. “I wish he would go home. I never get to bed before three o’clock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?” “He stays up because he likes it.” “He’s lonely, I’m not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me.” “He had a wife once too” (153). The older you get, the more time wears down on you, and you begin to now, greater than ever, feel your mortality. This theme is used to help the reader understand the older mans pain and that no matter how young and confident someone is, they will eventually grow old and die.

“Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well. We were happy.” (Golding 87). In this statement, Ralph realizes that his life, and those of the others’ on the island, is going to hit rock-bottom. All goes terribly wrong when the beast is introduced by the littlun with the mulberry patch on his face in Chapter 2. The beast is the reason for all the chaos in Lord of the Flies. The beast is an imaginary creature that frightens all the boys, and yet, it stands symbolically for the savagery that exists within all human beings. As the boys develop their fear and grow more and more certain of the presence of a beast, they also become more and more savage. William Golding uses the beast as a way to show the demise of the boys while they are on the island. The beast represents the irrational fear that exists within man, the savage monster within us all, and the ability for man to use intimidation to gain ultimate power.

Even though the symbolic idea of the beast in Lord of the Flies goes through many changes, they all are connected. Fear of the others turns into war, and what is war if not the expression of the savagery of humans. The symbolism of the beast doesn’t really change, it just becomes more recognizable as the story goes on. The reader is forced to come to the realization with the simple fact that the beast is in all of

Lord of the Flies is a book that takes place during World War II, and is about a group of English school boys who crashed in a plane on an island without any adult survivors. Throughout the story, the boys struggle to keep a mindset based on rescue and survival, and instead think more about hunting and having fun, while avoiding any responsibility. During this, the boys also struggle with fear of a "beastie" - what is the beast? To the author, the beast began as war, then it became the externalized form of the boys' fear, and ended as savagery.

The author of A Man Called Ove is Fredrik Backman. Ove, a 59 year old man, is the exact definition of a grumpy old man. For those who don’t know him he seems rude and impolite, but there is more to Ove than meets the eye. He has suffered a great deal of casualties. He was only a child when his mother died, and his father departed this world when he was sixteen years old. During those days, Ove did not live a happy life. As time passed, Ove had created his routine, but it was broken when he met the woman of his life. Ove was happy for a while, but things don’t last a life time. On their honey moon, Ove’s wife suffers a miscarriage caused by a bus accident. Not only that, but also she is left in a wheelchair. After years pass, his wife also dies, resulting in Ove living in loneliness. However, his life Changes when new neighbors stroll into Ove’s life.

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).