Literature In Lord Of The Flies And To Kill A Mockingbird

In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, all the boys exhibit natural human behavior. Their words and actions together, show that they were all part of a civilization before the unfortunate crash onto the island. However, as the plot progresses, order starts to fade and anarchy takes its place. After being on the island for quite some time, Jack and his followers become obsessed with the idea of hunting. During pig hunts, they are often heard chanting, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood” (Golding 58). Jack and the rest of his crew begin to relish the fact that they will be able to kill an animal with their own hands and wooden spears. This chant shows that they now lack true mercy and show no remorse for their inhumane actions.

In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of English boys in their adolescence are stranded on an island. They crash-land while being evacuated because of an atomic war, so the boys must learn to cooperate with each other in order to survive. The boys are civil at first, but the bonds of civilization unfold as the rapacity for power and immediate desires become more important than civility and rescue. The conflict between Ralph, the protagonist, and Jack, the antagonist, represents the conflict between the impulse to civilization and the impulse to savagery, respectively. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Ralph and Jack’s struggle for power to show that greed and lust for power can corrupt the best

In Lord of the Flies, British schoolboys are stranded on a tropical island. In an attempt to recreate the civilization they left behind, they nominate Ralph as their leader, with the smart and rational Piggy by his side. But Jack wants to lead, too, and one-by-one, he lures the boys from reason and humanity to savagery and a survival and inhuman state; they become the hunters. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives us a glimpse of the savagery that controls even the most civilized human beings. In To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee uses interesting characters to explore civil rights and racism in the segregated Southern United States of the 1930s. Narrated by Scout Finch, you learn about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who hopelessly fights to prove the innocence of a black man wrongly accused of rape; and about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbour who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed.

The Lord of the Flies starts with a group of good little British boys who slowly morph into savages who commit acts that would scar an adult, and do it for fun. In the beginning of the book, when the boys are first stranded on the island, after Ralph has been elected chief, Jack starts talking about rules. “’We’ll have rules!’ he cried excitedly. “’Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks ‘em- ‘” (Golding 29). The irony in this is not hard to find. When the boys were still innocent and civilized, they wanted rules. But, as life on the island grew more and more

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a plane escaping Britain in the midst of the next World War crash lands on a desert island. The surviving group of schoolboys begins to fend for themselves without adult supervision. Immediately, a boy named Ralph rises as the leader when he gathers the children with a conch shell. The other children draw toward his charisma and mature age. However, not everyone agrees with this institution of leadership, namely Jack Merridew. The island corrupts as Jack gains a foothold of power. Because of this corruption, two children--Simon and Piggy--die. Throughout this story, these crises are blamed on man’s inner evil prevailing with a lack of civilization and become evident through Jack’s interactions with Ralph,

“’Which is better – to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better – to have rules and agree or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?’” (180) In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives the reader a look into a society made up of a group of young British boys, all raised in a sophisticated and civil manner, who crash landed on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. While fighting to survive on the island, most of the boys gave in to the Beast or their savage side that is inside them. Others, like Ralph, find themselves in a battle with their own mind and the rest of the boys. Without rules and order, the boys quickly change

Great authors use different literary elements to display their thoughts. To Kill a Mcokingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the years of the Great Depression. The novel focuses on Scout Finch, a 6 year old tomboy, and her brother Jem. They both begin realize all of the social issues, such as rape and inequality, that happens in their community throughout the course of the plot. Many people were racist against black people and judgemental against people who were not like them during this time period in the south but Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus, did not want his children to become influenced by these people. Harper Lee uses literary devices such as characterization, symbolism, and conflict to develop

In Lord of the Flies it happens when Roger kills one of the main characters and is so desensitized that when it happens, he does it with “a sense of delirious abandonment.” (180) The boys now realize that the fun and games that were present when they first arrived on the island is gone and has been replaced with fear and violence. As Jack spreads his influence through the boys with violence and false promises, many of the boys are swayed to do things that would have been unthinkable in the modern world. Unfortunately, some of the boys who have still maintained their moral compass are forced into the much larger group of boys that have let freedom go to their heads. What was assumed to be freedom and liberation from adults and rules in the beginning has turned deadly as the power to do whatever they want has gone to their heads. Some of the boys have let the power to go to their heads more than others like Jack, who has taken control of the island and the boys except for one, Ralph. Jack feels that the only obstacle in his way of total reign of the island, Ralph, needs to be captured in any way possible so he sends all the boys after him. Ralph manages to get away and hides in a briar patch which effectively holds off the other boys until Jack sets it on fire. This shows how far anyone will go for total freedom with nobody to contradict them. When the briar goes up in flames it starts to spread to the rest of the island destroying plants, food and shelter. Everything the boys have created is destroyed in the pursuit of freedom. Ralph survives the attempt on his life and escapes to the beach where he is confronted by a naval officer who had seen the fire on the island from his ship. As Ralph talks to the soldiers the boys who, just a moment ago, were portrayed as savages together on a one minded pursuit to kill Ralph are now just school boys in the presences of an adult. The man, looking over

In William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies a group of young british boys are shot out of the sky, and marooned on an uninhabited island. One of the oldest boys Ralph takes command of the group, as he was voted as chief. Jack who was also one of the older boys in the group, plus another awkward fellow named Simon, accompanied Ralph in an exploration of the island. After the exploration, Ralph ultimately decided to start a fire on top of the mountain so any passing ships could see the smoke. Ralph calls for an assembly. After he got everyone’s attention, he established a set of rules that were to be followed. Jack only agreed with the existence of the rules, because there must be punishment if the rules were broken. The boys started the fire by

In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys’ loss of civility can be seen in the progression of how they hunt pigs. In the beginning of the book, Jack and the boys try to kill a pig for food. However, they could not bring themselves to kill it because of the “enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.” (31) Their reluctance shows that these boys are still civilized, and that their conscience is telling them that taking a life is wrong. After many tries, Jack and his group of hunters kill their first pig. As they returned to the group, Jack excitedly shouted, “Look! We’ve killed a pig ‒ we stole up on them ‒ we got in a circle…” (69) The boys killed this pig in a civilized

In the story of “Lord of the flies” By William Golding he uses Jack’s tribe to show savagery at its lowest point to show how people will choose safety over sanity. After Jack went to the main tribe and brought up the idea of having Ralph impeached the boys slowly went to Jack’s side. After having the boys leave for Jack, Ralph and Piggy confronts them and to see what they’re doing on their side of the island. Golding wrote “A circling movement developed and a chant. While Roger mimed the terror of the pig… Piggy and Ralph… found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society.”

Symbolism is a very important factor in many books. The use of symbolism in William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies is the most essential aspect to the function of the story. At first glance you may not think the symbols are very important, but with some in-depth thought you can see how it is necessary to explain the microcosm of an island.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, which is set during World War II, English school boys, escaping war in England, crash on a deserted tropical island. From the protected environment of boarding school, the boys are suddenly thrust into a situation where they must fend for themselves. In order to survive, the boys copy their country’s rule for a civilized life by electing a leader, Ralph. He promises order, discipline, and rules for the boys so that they form a small civilized society. This civilized society does not last. Struggling with Jack who wants to be the leader and the boys’ fears of the unknown, Ralph is unable to maintain control, and the boys fulfill Golding’s perspective that human

William Golding the author of the book, Lord of the Flies, brings up the issue of individuality and conformity. In the story, Jack had finally achieved his goal of diverting the rest of his group from polite British boys, into hunters, which left Piggy and Ralph alone, “Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secured society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.”(Golding,152) Much like everyone else, Piggy and Ralph just want to be accepted by the rest of the group, even though they knew that Jack as the new leader was a dangerous thing. In the end, Piggy and Ralph release to their ideas of order on the

It is commonly acknowledged that Literature is the reflection of the society. It is indeed true that literature reflects the attitude and perception of the society where it is written. Literature mirrors the vices of the society with an intention to make the society realize its mistakes and make amendments. The vast literature, produced from time to time, bears evidence to the fact that man is prone to discrimination. Treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their sexuality, skin, and class has, been core theme of the Harper lee’s master piece To Kill a Mocking Bird. The novel is told from Scout’s perspective; through Scout, we witness the social construction of race, class, and gender. The novel continues to be taught in classrooms due to its illustration