Category: Lord of The Flies

Lord of the Flies is a dystopian allegorical novel written by William Golding in 1954. It is both Golding’s first and most recognized novel, it went on to become a best-seller and it was even adapted into films in 1963 and 1990. Lord of the Flies narrates a story of a group of English schoolboys…

Vaulting ambition is the insatiable desire for something greater in your life. Ambition is a theme imbued in many texts as it is what fuels people to achieve greater things in life. It acts as the catalyst for the downfall of those seeking power on both a political, social and economic level. William Shakespeare in…

What does symbolism add to the literature? Symbolism is a literary device used to express something in an indirect way. William Goldings Lord of the Flies is an example of literature that uses symbolism frequently. Lord of the Flies narrates the story of a group of boys that are stranded on an island, and what…

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil. (Paulo Coelho). In the novel, Lord of the Flies, author William Golding institutes an unambiguous theme that presents the innate evil in every…

In his 2008 Ted Talk, speech entitled: The Psychology of Evil, Philip Zimbardo explores the nature of human evilness. He argues that when a person changes it is because the situation changes. When he put a good person in a bad situation they turn into a bad person. Then he talks about how these experiments…

There are very few people who are going to look in the mirror and say. That person I see is a savage monster; instead they make up some construction that justifies what they do – Noam Chomsky. In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding suggests that one cannot acknowledge the presence of evil…

Evil is commonly known as the lack of good. Wars, shootings, thefts, and robberies are all evil, but what about losing control? It all depends on how much control you lose and it depends on your definition of evil. Evil an extremely broad concept even in everyday use evil is used more narrowly to show…

One of the many popular beliefs that respected literature has revolved around for centuries is the belief that we all have good and bad within us, and that Individuals are born to be anything theyd like to be depending on their circumstances in life. In William Goldings Lord of The Flies, a vast group of…

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizewinning British author William Golding, published 17th of September 1954 is 224 pages of a genre of Allegory. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an unknown uninhabited island during a fictional worldwide war in 1950 during a disastrous attempt of…

Napoleon Hill, who was a famous author once stated, Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. To achieve major feats, one must not be self centered which is one of the main conclusions that can be drawn from this quote as well as from the book, Lord…