... facade, there is a much more serious theme. The idea of the loss of innocence is one of the prominent themes in Lord of the Flies. At the start of the book, World War II is going on, and the boys" plane is shot down over the ocean. This large-scale war off of the island foreshadows what will eventually become of the children on the island in the near future. Throughout the entire story, we see the boys on the island gradually transform from orderly, well-behaved ... children, into cruel, bloodthirsty savages. When the boys first ... ...

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... his own tribe he lay more and more press on Ralph, like Hitler did on President Hindenburg. Finally Ralph resigns and, as Hindenburg, turns to the 'enemy's' side. Many aspects of Lord of the Flies can be, and was very possibly meant to, compare to the many power struggles through time. E.g. the Russian Revolution, The Third Reich and so on. The story shows, just as the many wars and conflicts in history, how typical ... humans are and how humankind will always behave. The struggles through history have always been the same over and over again ... ...

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... and is about how Frodo Baggins has to deal with these problems. A different kind of Fantasy story is The Lord of the Flies. A tale about a group of young boys stranded on an island and have to face the elements and survive the over taken minds of each other. The Cloven Viscount is a story about the aspects of man-kind. The splitting half of the Viscount into good and evil represents what is in each person. Both sides ... was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on a hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to th...

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... by stress and his own emotions? Assassinated seven times, Yahweh seems unable to summon the energy to revive his spirit along with what is undoubtedly an ailing body. After being "assaulted on all sides by an onslaught of evil, vice and shame, (pg 88) and by accepting the crown of flies, "the Lord God Father of All Creation had consented to his own death." (pg 112) Perhaps it is ... for the best as it is not a loving God that must "lift One's skirts to avoid ... contamination [from] the hands of sinners that reach out to touch One and to drag One down." (pg 89) This is a God to ... ...

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