1. Lord of the Flies
They seem to represent the self-centered, self-righteous, section of our society. ... Their leader, Prince Prospero seems to represent the kind of person that corrupts people and leads them along evil paths. The rooms in the abbeys represent stages of human life; the colors are the main symbolic factors. ... It always represents the passing of time, in this case the passing of life. ... It serves as an awakening to most people in that it makes them aware of the evil and sin filling their hearts. ...
In every human being, there is a part that is definitely savage and evil as well as a part that is undoubtedly conscientious and good. ... After many days on a deserted island with no adults, which meant no way of enforcing authority, Jack's tribe, representing evilness and savagery, destroyed the last traces of civilization when confronted with Ralph's group, who represents law, order and democracy. Without the enforcement of law and order, the evil side of human takes charge and the society tend to slide towards chaos and savagery. ... (pg.200) While the demise of Piggy repres...
When this reading practice is applied to a section of act one scene three in Shakespeare's Macbeth it is easy to see that the women are given much more inferior roles and are depicted in ways that represent negative attitudes. The only women in the scene are witches, who are presented as evil and ugly. ... This reading practice, when applied to a piece of act one scene three in Shakespeare's Macbeth gives the reader an automatic understanding that Macbeth is being tempted by evil, which is represented through the witches. The witches are ugly and wild as Banquo describes them and thi...
The color black is an obvious allusion to several facets of the above hypothesis: black represents evil, of which we all, as humans, must fight; black represents death, which, in a manner of speaking, we are all dead until, according to the Christian way of looking at things, "born again,"" in a belief in Christ as savior. ... Hooper, the minister in this story, makes the point that all men "even ministers "are sinners or afflicted with evil or fallen, etc., when he says that "I , perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil- (635). ...
Many works use contrasting places to represent opposing forces. ... Conrad uses this contrast to enhance the theme of innate evil and every man. ... Conrad as many different levels of his meaning, that every man harbors a sense of hate and evil. ... The theme is that every man as evil but in a controlled situation, such as Europe, this evil is usually repressed. Africa allows for the release of this evil and the primitive nature of man. ...
"The Lottery" clearly expresses Jackson's feelings concerning human kind's evil nature hiding behind traditions and rituals. ... Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about "making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (265). ... The black box presents all evil acts that have happened to the people in the past. The color of the box brings evil to the reader. ... Jackson has really been driven to write an evil and cold-hearted short story. ...
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 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. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. ... Along with the lost battle to stay good, or the rise of evil, comes the fall of Simon, who,...
(p.204) William Golding tries to prove his point by making each of the symbols represent something that is actively changing on the island. Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. ... (pg.89) Simon's statement that the boys themselves are the beast is central to the novel's theme of innate human evil. ... In this way, the Lord of the Flies becomes both a physical manifestation of the beast, a symbol of the power of evil, and a kind of satanic figure who evokes the beast within each human being. In a reading of the nov...
In The Lord of the Flies, Jack was a powerful representation of the evil instinct of all humankind and society due to his desire to have power and authority, his thrill for violence and "bloodlust" that evolved from his growing savagery, and his inability to control the evil instinct or darkness of a man's heart. ... A certain, yet strange kind of exhilaration was derived from the horrific blood and the dissonant squeals of pain that even Ralph, the protagonist that represented order and civilization, "too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. ... ...
At first I thought that the figure represented evil or maybe destiny. ... The face represents the island, Cuba. ... This line represents the ocean. ... Also in this work, there is a little figure in human form who represents the integrity of the person. ... He put an airplane that is being attacked by arrows, and these arrows represent his opinion about how technology is destroying nature. ...
Going further, those two persons may represent one physical body with two hidden natures which constantly fight against each other, good against evil and vice versa, darkness against light. The whole act of sucking the blood out is the symbol of endearing energy, the source of nourishment for evil force. ... Coming back to previously mentioned vision, the evil side is gaining energy and the act of sucking becomes only a symbol. ... As without the good, there would not be the evil, just like without the light there would not be the darkness. ... The evil is triumphant just like in Jacopo Ligozz...
The children come to represent all people on earth and their search for happiness is a parody of every person's search. ... They are not evil by society's standards. Instead they are careless, indifferent, and selfish, which is an evil all in itself. ...
The reader is faced with choices of good vs. evil, past vs. present, and accepting life vs. ignoring death. ... (Faulkner, 189) The reader is then faced with deciding to feel empathy for Emily because of her upbringing or condemning her because she knew the difference between good and evil. ... Another critic examines the dilemma of past and present through multiple characters in the story: In past time and present time: the past is represented in Emily herself, in Colonel Sartoris, in the old Negro servant and in the Board of Aldermen who accepted the Colonel's attitude toward Emi...
My mom taught us that witches were evil creatures created by Satan. ... Witches are positive thinkers and believe in happiness prevailing over evil. ... Pagans also do not subscribe to the black and white notions of good and evil. ... The pentagram in its correct state (one point up, standing on two points) represents the perfected human. ... In Wicca, the five points represent our basic beliefs. ...
Hawthorne uses symbols to represent a forgiving nature, a punishment for a sinful act, and as living reminders of human foibles. ... Also, Hawthorne has Pearl protect her mother from further evil as he states "Even thus early had the child saved her [Hester] from Satan's snare." ... The prison symbolizes the evil of society and the rusted iron door tells the readers that crime is an ancient aspect of human life. ...
The group now had been torn in two and law and order, which was represented by the conch and is the main source of a civilised society, slowly ceased to exist. ... In conclusion, I believe Ralph was a victim of natural human evil which is found inside each and every one of us, some more than others. I feel this evil exists as there is always some sort of hate against others, whether it be because the colour of their skin, jealous of what they have or because of different religious beliefs. ...
In the framework of the story, Ralph represents the initial leadership, the moral center of the story. The angel who opposes the forces of evil represented by Jack. ... The internalization of evil found in the Lord of the Flies, is also found in Golding's The Inheritors but, in a slightly different fashion. In this novel, good and evil is represented in two different groups as the Neanderthals and the new people. ...
The people on the raft represent the all people, consuming themselves while on the materialistic society that is eating society from the inside. ... This cruelty of the process can be seen through the personification of the machine "chomping bloody mouth", this displays the cruelty of slaughter, which in turn represents the crushing of the materialistic life of the city. ... Meatworks, represents the curiosity and wonder of other lives in the world and also shows how destructive some others are to society and themselves. ... Not all discoveries are evoked by curiosity and wonder so...
What an evil choice they decide on." ... The Qur'an explicitly says that they both disobeyed and negates the idea that the woman is a source of evil. ... If the first principle represents God-man bond, the second stands for blood ties or man's relationship with his fellow men and women. ...
All in all this paper and the arguments involved in it are just trying to find a solution to the Problem of Evil. ... Lang's Model of the inner and outer self suggests that we know less about the real [inner] self than the shell [outer] self that we represent. ...
The horse has no idea that its master is evil and that he himself contributes to pain, but that does not make him innocent. ... He sees these people ignoring Icarus" plight as heartless and stupid, and he means for these people to represent everyone all over the world. ...
Atticus knows deep down (point 1) that he has to represent the wrongly accused man even though he will be forever despised as a "nigger lover" by the bigots in his community. ... Furthermore, what Atticus doesn't anticipate at all, is that his children would be nearly murdered by the evil Bob Ewell. ...