In the novel, the pig"s head is the Lord of the Flies, because it is the most powerful influence upon the flies which are its subjects, just as the beast which is the evil within the boys is the thing which commands their actions. The head is a symbol of the decay which ferments evil; and evil grows amongst the boys. ... It could be seen, therefore, to represent basic nature, a place which allows free will and gives the opportunity for the boys" latent violence to emerge. ...

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In the novel, "Lord of the Flies", William Golding convinces the reader that humans are inherently evil. ... Golding portrayed that evil within humans just needs to get the right condition to let itself out. ... The symbolic conch represented democracy and civilization. ... Jack symbolizes that everyone has evil within them and symbolizes that concept that everyone has a harmful behavior within them. ... Many symbols in "Lord of the Flies" are used to explain the idea that inherent evil exists in all humans. ...

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The tree represents boyhood and adventure. ... Equally important, the tree can represent how Gene's immorality devours him. ... Because of Gene's evil action his best friend Finny is permanently injured. Overall, the tree represents many things, the good points and bad. ... Whenever the boys look back to their friendship or school they will remember the exact tree that represents many adventures, friendships, and sin. ...

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Eventually, there are problems within the group, mainly between Ralph, the mature leader with high morals, and Jack, the traditional villain who represents cruelty and anarchy. ... The question that this book really asked is "Are men inherently evil?" Jack and his hunters were examples of the evil and cruelty present in humankind. ...

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Their job was to represent the Catholic Church in foreign lands. ... It has acquired more of a negative connotations through the past use of it to promote evil and hate. ... Whether a particular piece of propaganda is looked upon as good or evil all depends on the person receiving it....

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Orwell lost all the patriotism he had felt as a boy during World War I, and openly detested World War II and everything the war stood for and represented-mainly the political views represented during the war. ... And they were always supporting socialism and showing the evils of fascism, communism, or totalitarianism. ... He chose to write about the truths and evils of the world-war, poverty, and politics. ...

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But the reason he chose to make the film within a comic framework was because he saw an advantage in ridiculing the perpetrators of evil while at the same time creating empathy for the victims. This can be seen within GD as the Storm Troopers represent brutality, aggression and racism while the Ghetto Jews represent the best of human civilization. ...

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Manor Farm represents Russia, and Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the prominent figures of the Russian Revolution namely Marx/ Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin respectively. ... Orwell was eager to show how evil Stalin was and how contradictory the way he ran Russia was from the original Marxist Socialist beliefs, which had been the inspiration for the revolution in the first place. ...

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Notions of good and evil are essentially dependent on social and cultural constructs, making conflicts over morality open to debate. ... This creates a discordant effect and positions the responders to realize that perhaps within this post-modern world evil may prevail over good. ... Leaves are a symbol of life and the falling of leaves represents the loss of kindness, emotions and crisis of values in human race. ... The film is a window into the future of the Cold War where global conflicts between good and evil were to be played out. ...

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Golding saw a lot in the war which he claims couldn't be accounted for except on the basis of original evil. ... (Rosenfield 93-94) The naval party in Lord of the Flies brings the narrative to an end, indicating that for all its faults the civilization represented by military authority is the only defense against regression into a savage state. ... At the end of Lord of the Flies the abrupt return to childhood, to insignificance, underscores the argument of the narrative: that Evil is inherent in the human mind itself, whatever innocence may cloak it, ready to put forth its strength a...

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"There is a great deal of commotion and the last page is nothing more than a playwright's contrivance for bringing down the certain, One is left asking: What was the point?" There are many perspectives one could look at this quote from L.J. Halle. After the ending of Lord Of The Flies, peopl...

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He has made an incredibly truthful and realistic film, which some people chose to call an anti-war film because of the way it represents war and it's dark portrail of it. ... However, it is not inherently bad or evil. ...

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