This quote has a direct irony in correlation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of "Young Goodman Brown". ... This creed leads Brown into the dark forest to confront evil. ... Perhaps he made a subconscious pact to meet with the devil, his darkness. ... The cold dew that was sprinkled on his cheek symbolizes the coldness that began to grip his heart. ... Hawthorne's usage of lightness and darkness show there is no light without dark, no love without hate, no saint without sin. ...

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"They ain't afraid of the dark. ... Or lose-" "They"d build a ship-" The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life. ... (p. 200) This shows irony because both Piggy and the conch symbolize civilization and when they both coincidently are destroyed at the same time, there is nothing but savagery left on the island. ... To prove that all order is lost and there is only pure chaos on the island after Piggy's death, the hunters try to kill Ralph and he collapses on the beach in exhaustion, then he "wept for the end of innocence, t...

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