These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... 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. ... The evil within man is shown through Jack who is quickest to bare his animalistic and savage ways and untie his strings with civilization. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. They leave the sow's...

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Nazism and art. Can these two themes be combined to create a high quality movie? Possibly. That is what director Istvan Szabo did. He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. The movie was based on Klaus Mann's novel with the...

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• Grade Level: High School