In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the characters, symbolism, and setting to give a detailed description of these two faces of human nature. ... Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack are the most important characters in the novel. ... Jack first displays his savage-like personality in his description of killing the first pig (69). ... "Lord of the Flies" is the name given to the pig's head on a stick offered to the beast as a sacrifice by Jack and the savages (138). ... The characters, symbols, and setting used by William Golding depict the two sides of man: civilized and primitive....

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Jack becomes power hungry and is engrossed with hunting and killing the pigs on the island. ... Although Jack has a distaste for authority and Jim loves it, both characters love twisting the rules to benefit themselves. ... The turning point for Jack in Lord of the Flies was the slaying of the pig. ... Jack's group makes two relocations during the book: one to Castle Rock, and one to the pig's head. ...

• Word Count: 594
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In the book, the main characters consist of big uns, little uns, Ralph, Piggy, Roger, Jack, Sam, Eric, and Simon. ... At first the painted face is a method that he uses so that pigs wouldn't be able to spot him while he was hunting them. ... An example is when he put the pigs had on a stick. ...

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.), Setting (based on a deserted island during the time of the war) and Characters (the teenage boys themselves). The setting of the book is on an island which is deserted as to allow the characters to play out their struggles against each other. ... Golding's descriptions of the main characters among the group of school boys adds to the symbolic quality of Lord of the Flies, as several of the boys stand for greater concepts. ... The older boys start to realise they can get what they want by imposing themselves physically and to use violence on the younger characters/littluns and the cru...

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chanting after the first pig kill annoys and baffles Ralph. But when Ralph first wounded a pig, he experiences an "adrenaline rush?... As soon as civilization was no longer present, the other characters, including Ralph, succumb unknowingly to their primal wickedness. ...

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The main character, Ralph provides the foundation for the story. Many other characters are center stage through the book and make up a variety of personalities. ... Meanwhile, Simon finds the pig's head that the hunters had left and he calls it the Lord of the Flies because of the insects that swarm around it. ... Golding allows the characters to reflect on themselves and others in such a way that you are pulled into the characters thoughts, "What was the sensible thing to do? ...

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Simon is depicted as a compassionate, wise, mature, visionary, prophetic character with a will of goodness to help the other boys. His character represents Jesus as he portrays natural goodness and purity through his actions. ... The pig's head is the satanic figure that causes the unsullied character to have hallucinations about the Lord of the Flies, who is talking to him. ... Primarily, the beast is an imaginative character that the boys made up, because they feared the sight of objects at night. ...

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Another type of symbol Golding uses to show the reader the idea of civilisation versus chaos, are the multiple comparisons to the Bible characters Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. ... " Ralph says this to the boys in an impassioned speech after they were out brutally killing pigs instead of tending the fire, obviously not prioritising their rescue. ... Golding was able to use these objects and comparisons throughout the book to show the reader the certain milestones of the characters' gradual slip from their harmonious society and their desire to be rescued. ...

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Lord Of The Flies by William Golding Title: Lord Of The Flies Author: The book was written by William Golding. Golding is a British writer and poet. Golding was born in 1911 and died in 1993. He won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1983. In his books, Golding often deals with evil and emerges...

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The killing of a pig slowly begins to take over the boys life, and they begin to go about this in a ritualistic way, dancing around the dead animal and chanting. ... Another would be that as the story progressed characters names slowly begin to change. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School