Lord of the Flies
Introduction stating the topic and ending with a thesis

Topic and concluding sentences for all body paragraphs

Three examples for each body paragraph concluding paragraph that restates thesis and sums up essay

Transitional phrases at the beginning of each body paragraph

EACH ESSAY MUST INCLUDE THREE (3) QUOTES FROM THE NOVEL>

Put each quote in quotation marks " "

Cite each quote by chapter and page number.

Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel because there are many symbols in the novel that support the main theme Discuss the main theme of the novel and how it is supported through the use of symbols. (You will need to discuss three symbols)

Symbolism in Lord of the Flies

illiam Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, a story about English schoolboys trapped on a Pacific island, and how the civilization they try to create disintegrates, is an allegorical novel. ebster's New American Dictionary defines "allegory" as: "the…...

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Works Cited

'Allegory." Webster's New American Dictionary. New York: Merriam-Webster,

1995. 14.

Golding, William. Lord of the Files. New York: Riverhead, 1997.

They can no longer function as a team, because they have taken on the characteristics of violent animals whose only goal is to survive at any cost. They do not care that the four cannot do it alone, so they have already lost many of the important aspects of society that hold it together - a sense of teamwork and the common good.
Simon and Maurice arrived. alph looked at them with unwinking eyes. Simon turned away, smearing the water from his cheeks. alph reached inside himself for the worst word he knew. 'They let the bloody fire go out'" (Golding 77). My rewrite would be:

Simon and Maurice arrived, jubilant. alph greeted them with whoops and shouts. Simon turned away, wiping the water from his cheeks. alph reached inside himself for the best word he knew. "Jubilation," he cried, "They found us!"

Of course, this would change the entire framework of…...

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References

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc. 1962.

Jack discovers that he is not simply a leader, but that leadership makes personal demands on one's character that are not always enjoyable. Jack realizes that the boys cannot play all day, or forget about civilization, like schoolboys on a fun holiday. Instead, they must engage in the serious preparations of surviving on an abandoned island. Jack also realizes his limits as a leader as the group's fears conflict with its survival needs.
Both boys change because they are placed in such an extraordinary, personally demanding situation. However, simply being part of an organization with other boys alters the character of the children. If Jack and Piggy were in their normal situation, quite likely they would find themselves allied with the rest of the boys of their age group who might want to play all day, or engage in fantasy, against the will of adults. But the situational pressures force…...

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Smith, K. & Berg, D. (1987). Paradoxes of Group Life. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, p. 62-

Jack

Jack attended Cambridge University, and obtained a 'first' in history. He did then attempt to join the army, but was rejected as physically unfit. While at Cambridge, he contracted a very violent case of pneumonia, which weakened his constitution. To this day, Jack says that he is bitter, never having served in the army. At present, Jack teaches history as well as leads the choir at one of the most famous public (private) schools in all of England. He is known as an unsparing taskmaster and disciplinarian of the young boys, although the head of the school praises Jack, noting that he is one of the most dedicated teachers in the entire school.

Jack never married, which may be partially attributed to the difficulty of maintaining a relationship with a woman at a boarding school where schoolmasters have many duties supervising the students outside of the school environment. While at university,…...

Piggy even blamed Simon. Piggy said, "It was an accident…that what it was, an accident. Coming in the dark -- he hadn't no business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it… e was on the outside. e never done nothing, we never seen nothing" (220-221).
Piggy dies during a fight between Ralph and Jack, which had been brewing the whole time they are on the island. Piggy berates the two fighting members for acting like savages, and for not cooperating to make the survival of the group an assured thing. A boulder crashes down after Roger pulls the lever and it knocks Piggy off the rock bridge and he plummets to the rocks below. The boulder hits Piggy and the conch is smashed as well. Since Piggy was the rational, intelligent one among the group, his death marks the end of any hope…...

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Works Cited

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Perigee, 1954.

Initiation therefore helps the boys establish their identities and also creates social hierarchy.
The conflict between Jack and Ralph serves also as a type of initiation: a battle between two individuals. Initiations represent a transition from one state of mind or being to another. Simon's vision is one of the most powerful initiations in Lord of the Flies. The vision, which lends the novel its name, has a supernatural component that is common among most traditional initiation rites. Simon's vision becomes a collective initiation rite and means as much to the group as a whole than to Simon personally. The vision creates a sense of wisdom too: the knowledge that the beast is internal and not an external reality.

Third, journey is a key element of the theme of alienation. The entire island experience is essentially a journey for the boys, who are from England and suddenly find themselves in a…...

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Works Cited

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.

Lord of the Flies
illiam Golding's novel Lord of the Flied tells the story about what would happen if a plane full of young proper English school boys crash landed on an island without any adult supervision whatsoever. It is extremely important to the narrative that there are no adults on the island with the children. As adults, people are accustomed to the laws and moral rules of the society in which they live. They would be far more likely to keep up the rules of their society in this new location. Children only know legal and ethical issues because of the adults around them. They mimic the social structure instead of becoming a true part of it. hen the boys land, Ralph the leader, and his companion, Piggy try to create a social order which falls quickly into disrepair. One of the reasons that people behave morally or ethically is…...

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Works Cited:

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann, 1962. Print.

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Specifically, it will tell the story of the boys' experiences when they return home, what they find there, what they experience, and if they are punished. The boys from "Lord of the Flies" were left sailing away on a naval vessel at the end of the book, but when they returned home, they had to face what they had done on the island, and face the "real world" again.
LORD OF THE FLIES

When the boys returned home to England, their lives were never the same. The island had changed each and every one of them, some of them more than they knew. Ralph returned to school, but the incidents on the island had scared him more than he knew. He was still a leader in his soul, but evil people like Jack and Roger frightened him. He tended to shy away from others…...

Ladies of the Flies
Even with the fact that civilization has experienced great progress during recent years, it is difficult for humanity to abandon ideas related to gender roles, as most people believe that women react differently from men in particular situations and that it would thus be impossible for both women and men to react the same in these respective situations. Girls are typically associated with innocence and with being very unlikely to put across malicious thoughts. In William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies" the fact that all the protagonists are boys leads to situations that someone would associate with boys in general.

Girls in the contemporary society are normally taught to take on gender roles as they grow up and their personalities are, as a consequence, shaped with the purpose of having them think and behave like women. Even with this, one must keep in mind that this happens…...

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Rapaport, N. B. "Lord of the Flies (1963): The Development of Rules Within an Adolescent Culture." Retrieved  http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1157&context=facpub

hile we would like to think that we come from a society that is civil and reasonable, we must know on some deeper level that we would be no different from these boys if we were in the same predicament. That we are savages at heart is a bitter pill to swallow but it perhaps the knowledge of this fact that keeps us from becoming the savages that hunt, destroy, and kill. Golding has placed us in the hearts and minds of thee boys that are victims to their own humanity and he leaves us with the lesson and the warning that we should never forget. The saddest lesson of all is that the more civilized things must be taught while the savage inclinations are woven into our DNA.
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Baker, James. "An Interview with illiam Golding." Twentieth Century Literature. 28:2 (1982): 135.

Bufkin F.C. "Lord of the Flies: An Analysis."…...

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Baker, James. "An Interview with William Golding." Twentieth Century Literature. 28:2 (1982): 135.

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Some parts of the book were quite interesting

At The Beginning

At the beginning of 'Lord of the Flies', a plane crashes into an isolated Pacific Ocean island. It was carrying some British boys aged 6-12. It is worth noting that the world is obviously at war when the plane crashed. The boys have no one to take care of them because there were no adults who crashed with the boys. Things take off on a good foot. The boys made use of a conch shell as a kind of talking stick; one of the older boys, alph, was made the chief of their little boys' community (Shoomp, 2015).

When Trouble Began

And then, trouble starts. The boys fear there may be a fierce beast hidden on the isolated island. They then took a decision to construct a kind of signal fire with Piggy's glasses. Piggy is…...

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References

Golding, W. (1954). Lord of the flies. Faber and Faber.

Shoomp. (2015, September 12) Lord of the Flies Summary. Retrieved September 12, 2015, from Shoomp:  http://www.shmoop.com/lord-of-the-flies/summary.html .

unchecked and unmatched power within the confines of any social system is that it knows no bounds. In other words, for those holding power there are no limitations to what they can inflict upon their subjects. hen the whims and random desires of the ruling class are carried out without fail, the lower classes are destined to suffer. In the novels 1984 by George Orwell, and the Lord of the Flies by illiam Golding, the ruling parties experience virtually no consequences from the populous for their actions. In 1984 this is done by design, but in the Lord of the Flies it comes about through natural human impulses. In both cases, however, the competing human drives for order and for random gratification come to rest upon forms of social organization that satisfy certain basic desires of mankind while sacrificing power to a small group of individuals.
In Golding's novel the…...

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1. Golding, William. The Lord of the Flies. New York: Riverhead Books, 1954.

2. Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Penguin Books, 1949.

Adapting on the Island in Lord of the Flies In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the survivors of a crash—a group of school boys—find themselves in possession of a deserted island. Though they have never been in the wild before, nor on their own, they quickly learn to adapt by organizing into a hierarchy and tapping into their hunter/gatherer instincts. The plot of the never ratchets up the tension and conflict as the primal and violent spirit of some of the boys begins to dominate the action. Nonetheless, the individuals’ ability to adapt to situations remains unchanged. This paper will provide some examples of how adaptation is demonstrated by the boys in the novel through the process of their organizing to survive in the wild.
As the book opens, the boys survey their surroundings. They take stock of their situation and assess their whereabouts. The fair boy is depicted, upon realizing…...

There are no shortcuts" 50).
On Golding's island, the nature of animal is based on a primal urge for survival; on Christie's the crimes reveal some of the true base or seamy sides of humanity. "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away" (82).Yet -- it is that very descent into fear that Christie postulates may have allowed those disposed of to, at the very last moment, repent and realize their wrong. "The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. The wicked shall be turned into hell" (38). For Golding, there really is no external evil; it is the internal imagination that morphs into a set of traits needed for survival. We must…...

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Chrstie, a. (2004). And then here were none. Ten Little Indians. London: Samuel French.

Golding, William. (1953). Lord of the Flies. Perigee Books.

A series of writers and film directors shown interest in adapting parts (some even adapted the whole plot) of "And Then There Were None" into their works.

Suspense, along with the ten little ndians theme was very successful elements in crime fiction. These were decisive in the success experienced by the individuals who inspired from Agatha Christie.

The film industry has come up with a large number of motion pictures based on Christie's masterpiece and the book has even been adapted to suit the events present in a video game. Similar to other adaptations of the book, the game does not provide a plot that is identical to the one wrote by Christie. Even with that, it puts forward a challenging chain of events which make the individual feel as if he or she were part of the action in the book.

Golding's boys are not much different from the adults in "And…...

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Irene Kahn Atkins, "Agatha Christie and the Detective Film: a Timetable for Success," Literature/Film Quarterly 3.3 (1975)

"Cracking Agatha Christie Case for Amateur Sleuths; Computer Games," Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) 8 Feb. 2008: 64.

"And Then There Were None." Retrieved June 19, 2910, from the Macmillan Web site: http://media.us.macmillan.com/teachersguides/9780312979478TG.pdf

1. Exploring the Dark Depths of Human Nature in Lord of the Flies

2. The Savage Tendencies of Human Nature in Lord of the Flies

3. Understanding Civilization and Savagery in Lord of the Flies

4. The Fragility of Human Morality in Lord of the Flies

5. The Inner Beasts Within Us: Human Nature in Lord of the Flies

6. The Battle Between Good and Evil in Lord of the Flies

7. The Loss of Innocence and the Brutality of Human Nature in Lord of the Flies

8. The Destructive Power of Fear and Violence in Lord of the Flies

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## Unveiling the Dark Side Within: An Exploration of Human Nature in Lord of the Flies

1. Echoes of the Id: The Primal Darkness Exposed by Lord of the Flies

2. The Fragility of Civilization: How Lord of the Flies Unravels Societal Structures

3. The Savage Within: Exploring the Innate Cruelty Hidden in Human Nature

4. The Mask of Innocence: Unmasking the Evil That Lurks Beneath Civilization

5. The Dance of Good and Evil: The Interplay of Benevolence and Malevolence in Lord of the Flies

6. The Sociopolitical Lens on Lord of the Flies: A Reflection on Power and the Corrupting Influence of Authority

7. From Noble....

1. In William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, the descent into savagery by a group of young boys on a deserted island serves as a powerful allegory for the inherent darkness within human nature.

2. Through the characters of Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, Golding explores the themes of civilization versus savagery, power and control, and the loss of innocence in Lord of the Flies.

3. The influence of fear, power struggles, and the breakdown of social order are central to the brutal and chaotic society that manifests on the island in Lord of the Flies.

4. By creating a microcosm of society....

Brainstorming Thesis Statements on Lord of the Flies:

The Failure of Civilization and the Return to Savagery: Lord of the Flies exposes the fragility of civilization and the ease with which humans can revert to their primal instincts in the absence of societal constraints.

The Power of Imagination and the Dangers of Illusion: The boys' vivid imaginations initially fuel their adventures but ultimately lead them astray, creating an illusion of a world that does not exist.

The Conflict Between Good and Evil: The novel delves into the eternal struggle between good and evil, exploring the darkness that lurks within even....