Overall the tale of the British schoolboys who find themselves stranded on a tropical island goes beyond what the reader may conceive and it is evidential that "Lord Of the Flies" is an allegorical novel. ... With the coming of the boys and their savage behaviour, it is evident that they are eventually responsible for the complete destruction of the island. ... William Golding uses religious allegory to unveil the truth about evil within all humans and bases the idea off of the struggle between Christ and the Devil, otherwise understood as good and evil. ... In addition to the boy's il...

• Word Count: 3388
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The one problem that emerged is that which we all have, we are all human. ... Since the beginning of Democracy, the United States have had normal occurrences with problems as like many other countries, but the problem is that the United States is unjustly spreading this so-called perfect government, and forcing others countries that we have "freed" to adopt Democracy. ... I believe this is a big pact when it comes to the United States and the flexing of the "Democratic" muscles, because it is shown in all wars after, not just by the evil countries but also by the one trying to save Democracy. ...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This ultra nationalism was also evident in Nazi Germany with its policy of uniting all Germans in a Gross Deutschland and acquiring Lebensraum in Eastern Europe. Fascism offered an alternative to the system of parliamentary democracy which failed to solve the post-war social and economic problems. ... For Hitler, in identifying "goodness" and "superiority" with "us," there was a tendency to identify "evil" with "them." ... It was then an easy step to blame all societal problems on "them," and presuppose a conspiracy of these evildoers, which had emasculated and humiliated the idealised core...

• Word Count: 1866
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Such nationalism is illustrated throiugh the ideas that Hitler promoted to his people, that of the evils of Semitism and communism as well as the idea of the superiority of the Aryan race. ... Militarism was something which was also evident in the run up to WWII. ... One of its main aims was to solve the German problem, crippling it to the extent where it would never again be able to threaten the peace of Europe again, but not to the extent where it wouldn't be a healthy market for trading. In reality this problem lay unsolved, in stead those who signed the treaty were seen as "crimina...

• Word Count: 2024
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later in the film, this idea will be evident in the Viet Cong's barbaric torture as the capturers pervert the image into horrific games of Russian roulette. ... The film's major problems are exemplified by his quote, "I started moving back in time, because I wanted to imply that the issues and themes were timeless. ... By trying to represent universal truths about the human condition, Coppola removes the history from the radically different and original problems the Vietnam War caused and misses the specificity of the moment. ...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate