Race In Lord Of The Flies

Alas, at the foot of a great mountain: Jack is seen tribal chanting to a now decomposed sow’s head with Ralph’s body sliced into pieces as offerings.

It is not a surprise Tolkien was heavily inspired by Anglo-Saxon literature and language and that it has seeped into a lot of his work. The Hobbit is not exception, in that it borrows a lot of influence from Beowulf. The Hobbit visits a lot of themes from Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon culture such as greed, catabasis, and musicality and language, all of which will be explored on this essay. Two of the characters in particular are reminiscent to Beowulf in his both halves of the text; Bilbo would be the young Beowulf proving himself to the reader and the people around him. Thorin would be the old King Beowulf, obsessed with his need for treasure and haunted by greed.

I chose the topic of this mask, based off the boys improper and confused relationship with Piggy. The theme of this mask, is discrimination. It stood out to me how unfair the boys treat Piggy, they view Piggy as powerless and having no sense of command. It also felt like the boys are confused with Piggy, because of his superego personality. He was raised by adults, and acts like one. This makes Piggy hard to relate with the boys and often leaves them frustated and confused. I feel like everyone once had a time in their life where they felt mistreated, and not having a opportunity to express their point of view. Therefore, we feel meaningless along with neglected, and are overpowered by a group of people which we simply can not overcome.

The Dangerous Consequences of Possession in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and “Farmer Giles of Ham”

William Golding’s masterful use of symbolism is exemplified in his book Lord of the Flies, in which he uses masks to represent . These masks come in many forms, and by careful study of events throughout Golding’s novel, one discovers their significance. Physical masks are used by many characters such as Jack and Piggy, and they are perhaps the least ambiguous forms found in the book. The idea of a mask encompasses more than just these literal interpretations, however. Metaphorical masks are used in abundance throughout the book, and much can be revealed about the characters based on how or if they chose to wear their masks. The significance of these masks is also tied closely to the theme stating Man’s heart is evil.

into the world of Middle Earth. If a reader investigates further into the songs and poems of The Hobbit, they will find that Tolkien uses poems and songs to reveal important attributes and estab-

“In absence of orders, go find something and kill it” Erwin Rommel world war II 7th panzer division general. It doesn’t seem to have much to do with lord of the flies but it does. When these boys are in left alone they start fighting and pick sides. In the Second World War people picked sides. These boys go into a small war of their own and it is brutal and has one evil over powering faction in this book the history’s most notorious generals, leaders, and even dictators are represented by these boys.

Discrimination is the unfair treatment of one person or a group of people because of their identity (including race, religion, gender ability, culture, etc.). Discrimination is an action that can come from prejudice. Within the society the boys fixed on the island, Piggy wasn’t allowed to do certain jobs that the commoners were able to. He was seen as a pathetic, vile outcast to everyone but Ralph and Simon. The majority of the society turned against Piggy in order to prevent theirselves from being targeted by Jack and Roger. When Ralph demanded a fire to be made, most traditional methods failed, but Jack had the brilliant idea to use Piggy’s specs. Soon after, Ralp points out how the fire was worthless considering there was no smoke. After listening to Ralph’s scolding, Jack directly blames Piggy for not helping, “he just sat” (Golding 42). On the other hand, Simon shows that Piggy did take part in the creation of the fire; it was “his glasses...he helped that way” (Golding 42). This evidence provides support to the claim that Jack intentionally discriminates Piggy and forces others to join him in his cruel ways. Moreover, Piggy is seen as being less than human in the eyes of Jack, based on his inabilities. Granted that Jack later on becomes the system, every action is pre-approved by him, which includes everyone collectively targeting Piggy. Not only does Jack segregate Piggy from everyone else, but he also economically discriminates him. He discriminates him based on

Another race with a large collection of poems in The Lord of the Rings is the hobbit race. Sheltered in the utopian-like Shire, hobbits live a life of comfort, peace, and joy, with excessive and indulgent eating, smoking, and drinking. The hobbits are almost childlike in their blissful ignorance of the problems outside of their home. These characteristics reflect in their songs and poetry through a development of a mood of contentedness and motifs of home and food. Other than a few exceptions within the Took family, hobbits seem to value the comfortable status-quo over adventure and ambition.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

Tolkien tells us as a boy that he loved to rewrite and rethink Norse and Greek mythology in his own manifestations. Possibly what Tolkien is most praised for is fantastic mastery of language. He created two languages for his imaginary race of elves, and they both came from one central language that was derived from the fake history of the story. This fact gives the languages an incredible sense of realism.

A large portion of the poems come from the elven race. The poems of the ancient race create a sense of longing and acceptance of fate, develop motifs of light, water, and stars, and show racial values of history and the journey across the sea. A sweeping theme among elven poetry is the sense of longing and acceptance of destiny. Whenever the fellowship is about to leave the elvish land Lothlorien, Galadriel sings of her desire to cross the sea to return to the land of the Valar. Her song, both a lament for her land of Lorien and a love song for the land across the sea, echoes a distinctive conflict among elves between staying in the land of Middle-Earth where they have built lives, fallen in love, and fought for good, and going on the last journey of their lives to their homeland across the sea (Tolkien,

Lord of the flies is a novel which is inevitably pointing to a racist view of society on how that british boys from a private school will often depict to a savage type of society and resort to violence and barbaric manors in the way they do things - if left alone unattended on an island that is.

Music plays an imperative role in J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy The Hobbit. It provides the reader with key insight into a character’s role in the story, and the type of creature they are. While there are only a few songs throughout the story, each one has a vital message that pertains to either the characters or the plot. The three different songs sung by the dwarves, elves, and goblins all vary in tone, content, and structure, but all play a part in the development of Tolkien’s characters.

Black Dwarf Nikabrik ("his hair and beard were black, and thick and hard like horse-hair" [55]) turns out to be a traitor. And while Lewis's White Witch is represented as evil through her almost dead whiteness, she is surrounded by creatures of the dark: "[O]verhead there went a flurry of foul wings and a blackness of vultures and giant bats" ( The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 127). Further, in Tolkien, the contrast between the Black Sauron and Gandalf the White is even more obvious, not to speak of the dark-skinned Orcs. The equation of darkness with enmity extends, as with Nikabrik, beyond skin color; Ted Sandyman, the hobbit who is so antagonistic to Sam, is described when the hobbits return to the Shire as "grimy-faced and black-handed" ( The Return of the King 366). Third, though both worlds feature many different races (dwarves, humans, Ents or dryads, and so on), a racial hegemony is clearly in place, In Middle- Earth, the racial hegemony is shifting from the Elves to humans.