... best expressed in the way these three scenes depict the attitudes of the boys. Jack and Roger are the two main boys who evolve from excited and co-operative to evil and cunning boys, and lose all sense of their previous society and how it was run. They kill Simon and Piggy and begin to hunt down Ralph. The only person who sticks to his previous nature most ... of the time is Ralph, and he too is caught up in the evil nature that comes ... even bring himself to kill a pig. The boys have changed greatly when the kill the large boar. They have lost most of their childish innocence and the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Knossus depict a people consumed with the celebration of life. The artifacts do not, however, depict great battles or hunting. Hawkes examines these and states, "the extraordinary skill and sensibility of these potters arouses curiosity as to their sex" (95). Where the potters female? Could one even go as far to say ... . The first deities that one sees in history are matrilineal. Does this imply that the civilizations that worshipped these early gods, such as Ge and Rhea, were matrilineal? The Minoans were simply a highly developed culture for their time that took thought into their arc...

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... we can see which of the characters have learned their lesson from what the inspector has said and which are in denial, clinging their old beliefs and showing no sense of remorse. The characters' conversations after the Inspector's departure show the contrasting attitudes between the older and younger generations. So nothing really happened. So there's nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn. Sheila ... after being told by the infirmary that no girl had died that day. This raises questions about the true identity of the inspector and creates a sense of obscurity about the play as a who...

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• Grade Level: High School