... in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely a gleaming white skull-as white as the conch shell, he notes. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake ... safe but, thinking about what has happened on the island, he begins to weep. The other boys began to sob as well. The officer turns his back so that the boys may regain ...

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... kind of fun!- (Lothe, Jakob. Conrad's Narrative Method. Claredon Press. Oxford. 1989. page 22.) But at the same time, they recognize the downfalls in Kurtz's character. This contrast illustrates the inner evil of man, even within the reader himself! Marlow is portrayed as being more humanistic. He sees the workers "black shadows of disease and starvation- and pities for them where most Europeans cast them aside ... , put in an ideal condition with nothing to inhibit his happiness, finds a way to screw things up. Golding also uses darkness to symbolize the lack of the controlling effect o...

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