Throughout the novel "Lord Of the Flies," author William Golding incorporates characters, objects, and events which represent concepts or ideas pertaining to the flaws of mankind. ... William Golding uses great diction to show the pleasure the boys get from hunting, describing their animalistic urges and presenting the boys loss of innocence, it says "the sow staggered her way ahead of them, bleeding and mad, and the hunters followed, wedded to her in lust, excited by the long chase and the dropped blood" (135). ... The author describes the situation as, "The strange attendant...

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

He served the Tory government as editor of the party organ, the Examiner, and as author of its most powerful articles. 2 With the fall of the Tory party in 1714, Swift became an important critic of the new Whig government and its chiefminister Sir Robert Walpole. ... The English King and Government took great pride in warfare during the eighteenth century. ... The creator of this weapon is by the king described as an evil genius and enemy to mankind, but Gulliver can only see the great advantages of the use of gunpowder in warfare. ... It would be a great damage to their own Estates, which li...

• Word Count: 10069
• Approx Pages: 40
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although it is defined a poetry of fragments, there is throughout the poem a theme linearity, due to the cycle technique used by Tennyson in order to illustrate certain fundamental laws behind human time and natural time, nevertheless it is a non-linearity structure that prevails in the poem, reflecting the author's concept of non-linearity time. ... Anyway, in section 22 it is described a sort of experience of the author and Hallam that consists in a fall out of natural or seasonal time, they coexist with the natural passing of the seasons and at the end this cyclical time changes int...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

Man, powered by his imagination and inquisitive character, has wondered he mechanisms of Nature since time infinite. This quest for the truth, the ways in which his surrounding works, has led to many a scientific discoveries and innovations. Since the art of making fire and creating handcrafted tool...

• Word Count: 3017
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School