The characters are haunted by their own selfish desires; the sin of the past is reborn through the greed of the family. ... And while Hepzibah and Clifford Pyncheon suffer from illusions of grandeur, they lack the strength of will to achieve their ultimate desires. ... Her selfish desire to remain in the past, in the time when she would not have to soil her hands with the disgrace of actual labor, is something to which she clings desperately. ... Alice, whose only sin was pride, died shortly thereafter. ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Golding died in 1993, one of the most acclaimed writers of the second half of the twentieth century. ... Others approached Lord of the Flies through the theories of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who taught that the human mind was the site of a constant battle among different impulses-the id (instinctual needs and desires), the ego (the conscious, rational mind), and the superego (the sense of conscience and morality). ...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School

The first word I looked up was sexy and the definition that the dictionary showed was that it was an adjective that meant- arousing or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest. ... The next word was death and the dictionary said that it was a noun describing the act of dying, termination of life. ...

• Word Count: 2686
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School