Similarities And Differences Between Lord Of The Flies And Romeo And Juliet

Though he did make some cuts that take away from the meaning and characters of the play, the reason often made sense. For example, Juliet’s soliloquy in act 4 scene 3, which is incredibly important because it shows the darkness of Juliet, was cut because the death scene does not take place in a tomb and that is the main topic of her soliloquy. Although the audience missing the dark depression of Juliet in this soliloquy, he compensates for this by making the Juliet scene with her father where he tells her she is going to marry Paris, be much more emotional. Another cut was the death of Paris, which at first seems like an important plot point to leave out, yet other than showing Romeo’s determination to see Juliet, really has no purpose. Luhrmann

In the fictional story Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, Jack and Ralph are two of the eldest boys in the group who soon become leaders on the island. Although they are British and know how to maintain themselves they both simply fail at the end. Though Jack is all about fun and hunting, Ralph is all about order. Also Jack grows stronger but Ralph grows wiser. Finally while Ralph tries to remain calm and kind, Jack on the other hand threatens and bullies.

One major conflict in The Lord of the Flies is man vs. society. Ralph is good for the island society because he concluded there need to be rules and order so that the boys stay balanced and are concentrated on getting recaptured. “ The rules! ‘Shouted Ralph’ You’re breaking the rules!” pg. 130 Ralph is fighting for civilization, he is trying to make everything is coordinated, all he wants is for all of them to get rescued. Society need rules in order to be civil, because if everyone was not civil, the world would be turbulent. Ralph is the leader of the “tribe”. When Jack separated from the group and made his own tribe it all became crazy. Jack’s group was chaotic; however, they did know how to hunt and they had the ability to start a fire because of Piggy’s specs. One boy states, “We did everything adults would do, what went wrong” (Golding). When boys from Ralph's tribe decided to leave and start their own clan then everything started becoming chaotic. If they all would have stayed together they would have had trouble getting along but at least it wouldn't be hectic. Ralph did the best he could trying to keep everyone from going insane. Ralph represents humanity, and jack represents savagery.

Something deep in Ralph spoke for him. “I’m chief. I'll go. Don't argue." (p.155)Throughout the novel, we notice the similarities between the two characters Ralph and Jack, however, there are several great differences in the way they use these traits to benefit both themselves and others. In the novel Lord of the Flies, the contrasts aid in displaying the variances between Jack and Ralph, such as their leadership styles, civilization vs savagery, and their motives throughout the story.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack’s power struggle is observed throughout the book. Ralph’s democratic leadership sharply contrasts Jack’s tyrannical and uncivilized rule. Ralph is stripped of everything and the line between him and Jack is blurred near the end because he gives in to savagery. Though all men will ultimately revert back to animalistic instinct and savagery in the absence of civilization, Ralph only succumbs to this when he loses his friends and when he is hunted; Jack succumbs all on his own.

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Throughout William Golding’s book, Lord of the Flies, there lies an interesting battle between being civilized and adhering to one’s primal instincts. This is clearly illustrated through two distinct characters: Ralph and Jack. While the two of them clash, they are still strangely able to get along at times. By illustrating this relationship, Golding is able to present both an intriguing duality and represent the two characters as the "Id" and the "Ego”.

In William Golding's Lord of the Flies the central and recurring theme, civilization vs savagery, is very evident and obvious. Throughout the novel, Golding associates civilization with good, while associating savagery with dark and evil. Due to the intense and driving force of the novel, civilization and savagery clash against each other as the novel progresses. Golding also lets the two main characters represent this theme. Ralph, the protagonist, represents leadership and has a civil wellbeing, while Jack, the antagonist, stands for the desire of power and savagery. “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” (Golding 42). Jack agrees with Ralph in this statement about how the boys must obey and follow the rules given, however, as the novel progresses, Jack starts to become a savage and butts heads with Ralph. Nonetheless, the novel moves forward and the boys still retain their civil sides. In Chapter 3 the main conflict intervenes and the first verbal conflict takes place. As Jack and Ralph argue it is apparent on which side each of the boys take and the division of the boys starts to take action. Ralph advocates to build huts, while the bloodthirsty Jack, demands that the boys hunt for food. But because Jack and Ralph are children they are unable to successfully express their feelings and ideas during the debate. Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 present a new challenge that the

In Lord of The Flies, Ralph and Jack both serve as figures of leadership in a sort of way, but they both represent different types of power just as this is prevalent in society. Ralph, the actual elected leader of the little tribe the boys have formed has his main focus centered around building shelters and making sure everyone is accounted for and taken care of. He feels for the liitleuns and how frightened and homesick they are, so he wants to build these shelters so they feel a sense of ‘home’ and maybe transition a little easier. While Jack, though he is not the elected leader, took on a sense of power and entailment on his own after he was assigned as a designated hunter. At first, Jack thought hunting would be easy and come easily to him, though it didn't exactly happen like that.

In their song,“They don’t know about us”, One Direction shows the feelings of the lovers who hide their love, which share similar conflict to Romeo and Juliet. Both couple hide their love from the world and their families. In the beginning of their song, One Direction express their feelings of young couple as “People say we shouldn't be together” and “We're too young to know about forever” which is telling that young couple don’t know everything. However, in Shakespeare’s play of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet expresses her love but also understands the consequences of it. In fact, when Juliet is at the balcony, she talks to herself, being worried and questions Romeo, “O Romeo,Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” and suggests him to “ Deny thy

Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding seems to suggest that the power struggle between Ralph and Jack corrupts the idea of what is right. The first time the corruption of power and control is seen is when Jack allows the fire to burn out while the choir boys and himself are out slaughtering a pig in the hunt (pg.76). Rescue had been the most important thing on the island. This remained true up until the point where Jack felt power and control after killing where “there was lashings of blood” (pg.76). Unsure if survival would be possible, keeping the fire going and staying focused on rescue was the right thing to do. Jack remained remiss to this and allowed the power and control he craved to corrupt his idea of what was right and important. Nearing the end of the novel, a disastrous decision is made when both Jack and Ralph decide to split after it is made evident the power struggle has corrupted the unity among the boys. Jack announces “I gave you food, and my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who will join my tribe?.” This ends all possibilities of rescue. By splitting, Jack chooses to sacrifice the rescue of the boys on the island in a final attempt to win the power struggle. Once again, the idea of what is right is

Maybe not as aggressive like in “Lord of the Flies”, but it is normal human nature. Jack and his savage tribe are jealous that Ralph is not only chief, but doesn’t have the same ideas as them. That’s why they want to get rid of him. Though, there was lots of man vs man in “Lord of the Flies.” Not just the end. In William Golding’s book there are many times where Jack throws shade at Piggy or Ralph. Golding, 21 “‘You 're talking too much,’ said Jack Merridew, ‘Shut up Fatty!”’ This shows that Jack was very rude to Piggy and it was a like Man versus Man there since Jack was being rude to Piggy. Another example of this type of conflict is when Jack and his savages steal Piggy’s glasses from the shelter. During this time they are punching and kicking members of Ralph’s tribe. At the end, when Ralph is running away from Jack’s savages and trying to survive, that is an example of man vs man. As the reader can see, when the reader examines both stories, the conflicts in each of the stories are surprisingly similar, especially in the conflict Man versus Man. The reader has now learned about the most prominent type of conflict in both these chronicles. Now the reader will apprehend a less known conflict, Man versus Nature.

The main characters of The Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack, emerge as potential leaders of a group of stranded boys. The boys are working to establish a democracy and there will be a vote deciding who will rise as the leader of their new society. Jack and Ralph have contrasting leadership qualities. Even though they are very different, there is one important way that Ralph and Jack are similar.

The tale of Romeo and Juliet is extraordinary. The original story is very good and very well written. The more modern story is very different from the original. In the original the families hate each other, in the modern the families are actually friends. This is what I found to be the same and different about the two stories.

In Lord of the flies, two of the characters are Ralph and Jack. Ralph and Jack do not get along. Ralph believes that rescue is the most important thing, and that in order to be rescued they need to keep a signal fire going. Jack is the picture of savagery on the island, he believes hunting for food is the most important thing while they are on the island. Ralph is the poster child for civilization and sanity. If I had been on the island, I would have been among those who stayed with Ralph. I would have tried to ignore Jack and his group of