This analysis of Golding's novel proves to support significant evidence that humans are naturally evil, unless that evil is tamed. ... The struggle on the island becomes a struggle between good and evil. ... Golding uses many different tactics and many symbols in proving his point that there is an evil lurking inside everybody. The beast is just one of the symbols that he uses to show this. The beast also acts as a model for evil. ...

• Word Count: 1683
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

These are symbols that destroy the Pyncheon family. ... The curse is a major symbol in this story. ... The symbol of light and dark represent good and evil. ... Her appearance is a symbol of cruelty. ... She is the symbol of newness. ...

• Word Count: 2022
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The crucial realisation that it was he, who had the folly for all this evil to turn, appears in Act 3 Scene 4, "O I have ta"en too little care of this" where he realises he is a self-centred, neglectful king, and it was he who did Cordelia wrong. ... But the audience remain content due to the relieving of the reunion and forgiveness- also adding to the audience's relief that good conquers evil. ... When Gloucester had his eyes, he ironically said he did not need "spectacles" to see evil, which was when he was being deceived by Edmund. ... They identify Cordelia as a symbol of Christi...

• Word Count: 1659
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Lear has given away his position of power, but still hangs onto the symbols of power, such as the company of knights. ... Often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars - Edmond's eventual demise at the close of the play symbolises the triumph of good over evil. ... They are conveyed as being instinctively drawn to the pure evil that emulates from Edmond's being through costuming. ...

• Word Count: 1753
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Day has created Harry Lavender as the evil voice behind Sydney's crimes, giving the audience someone to connect to and someone to dislike. ... Tony Abbott who the speech was addressed to became a symbol, and the speech itself took on its own symbolism towards sexism and the views on women's roles in modern Australia. ...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6