Jim Morrison Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Freedom was seen through the boys painted faces – as it liberated them from social conventions and allowed them to become savages. The narrator in the book said in chapter four, “The mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness”. The use of personification about the mask gives it a wild, dangerous atmosphere. Jack is seen changing into something more animalistic, too, free from the judgement of adults on the island and Golding conveys this through anthropomorphism. In chapter three the narrator says, “Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath; and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees.”

(Law and Order) "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things." (Golding 42)

These masks, which are used by Jacks followers called ‘the hunters,’ are made of clay paint. The evilness of the boys is clearly shown when they wear the masks. It is almost as if an infectious disease is spread upon them; they lose all sense of civilization. After Jack paints the mask on his face for the first time, it is clear what it does to him. “He began to dance and his laughter became a blood thirsty snarling. “He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.” (Golding 64). This not only shows the cruelty of the mask, but it also shows how it opens Jack into the world of being a savage. Also, Golding mentions the colors of Jack’s first mask as being Red, White, and Black. These colors symbolize “violence, terror, and evil.” (Golding).

The power-hungry will often feel the need for absolute control, hardly ever getting what they desire, they will often be portrayed as crazy and vicious. The same can be said for Jack; all he wants is to be the leader and make the decisions, but Ralph is the one in control. Jack’s desire for power is ruining his own image, and the well being of the other boys. Without the supervision of adults his morals and values took a turn for the worst.

Ralph: We need an assembly. Not for fun. Not for laughing and falling off the log.

“There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast--Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! Said the head. You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s a no go? Why things are the way they are?” (page 206)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest takes place at a mental hospital in Oregon state hospital in in Salem. This book follows the day to day life of a group of patients of how the go from acting like machines to becoming their own person. The author uses machinery to show that everyone is the same and has to be a perfect robot. When they are able to fit in and just go with the crowd, they are not humans. As the book moves on with McMurphy, the machinery quotes goes down and it shows how people are being there own person. "The ward is a factory for the combine. It's for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhood in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is. "(Kesey 40).

Symbol: The long hair represents how long they have been on the island. The “painted faces and long hair” symbolize savagery. Jack paints his face and it makes him feel as if he is one with nature to symbolize his savagery.

“Maybe,” Simon said hesitantly, “maybe there is a beast… What I mean is… maybe it’s only us.” In the midst of the second world war, a plane evacuating a group of English adolescents, has crashed on an uninhabited island located in the Pacific Ocean. Lord of the Flies tells the harrowing account. As the boys allot more and more time isolated on the island, they admit to recognizing an unidentifiable figure dwelling within the area, this “beast” however, isn’t the typical lion, tiger, or bear; This mysterious entity is portrayed to have various alternating elements throughout the documents in an attempt to establish a definite identity to this phenomenon conceiving the the question, what is the “beast”?

“The thing is - fear can’t hurt you anymore than a dream.”(Golding, 116). Ralph’s point of view on fear is declared within the quote. Ralph is the protagonist derived from William Golding’s esteemed bestseller, Lord of the Flies. In the renowned novel written by Golding, young boys in a plane have crashed and descended upon an uninhabited island with more than sufficient vegetation. On the first chapter of the fictional writing, many of the boys are very enthusiastic and exhilarated about being on an island without any parental supervision. At first, order and tranquility was established by the children and there was more civilization on the island compared to savagery. However, as the novel advanced, the readers could identify the kids were

Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds. “A stone.” “No. A shell.”

Golding shows us in the Lord of the Flies the evil within everyone. This is shown on the island through the savagery, the corrupted government, the constant need to fight for power, and through the murders. This evil within us is shown today through terrorist acts, shootings, wars between countries for political power, and through corrupted hierarchies. Mankind is inherently evil and this is what leads to the chaos shown on the island.

In the both texts One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the plots illustrate that an outsider can reveal the properties of a society. Although both texts confer on this idea, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s reveals this idea to the characters, which causes drastic change. While Brave New World reveals this idea through the struggles of the main characters, causing little change.

The mask is Jack’s camouflage for when he hunts in order to hunt better, but it truly represents Jack’s turn to savagery for the mask does not hide his true identity, it brings out his inner savagery. Masks are used to hide people’s identity or to let them become someone or something else. If no one can recognize who a person is, then that person cannot be blamed for their actions. Therefore, Jack is freed from his morality and therefore the is no longer any consequences for his actions as well as all the boys eventually becoming unrecognizable; they are no longer individuals and cannot be distinguished from savages. This is the case when Ralph and Piggy go to Castle Rock a when the boys who joined Jack’s group appeared, “savages appeared, painted out of recognition, edging round the ledge to the neck” (175).

Clothing is a societal norm which has long been a symbol of status and self-expression. Uniforms are used in many orderly institutions such as schools, militaries, and workplaces. Often, the leader of a uniformed group is clearly identifiable. Jack, one of the story’s antagonists, is cloaked in the black of his robes, leading a choir of similarly cloaked boys. A gold badge on his chest shines in the afternoon and stands out against the rest of the choirs silver badges. We see the darkness in him early on, the boys were easily “Intimidated by his uniformed superiority”(21), and the darkness only seems to grow as the story progresses. In Chapter 12, the last in the book, Jack is described as “A little boy who wore the extraordinary remains of a black cap on his red hair”. Letting go of the instincts society had drilled into not only him, but all of the boys on the island (Excluding Ralph, Piggy, and Simon)