... basic and obvious themes is that society holds everyone together, and without these conditions, our ideals, values, and the basics of right and wrong are lost. Without society's rigid rules, anarchy and savagery can come to light. Golding is also showing that morals come directly from our surroundings, and if there ... civilization. Maybe removing it from any reality. The events in the story may also back this claim up. The way the island starts off as a paradise resembling Eden and contrasting with the environment and the boy's behavior turning hostile works well. The weather also shows...

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• Grade Level: High School

... himself as "unremitting", "dedicated", "tortured", "resistless", "frantic", and "engaged" (33). He admits that he had become "pale with study", "emaciated with confinement" and that he was so focused that he "lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit" (34). His father writes to him, rebuking him for not corresponding. One might dismiss all of this by saying that it ... and uncontrollable process also suggests the creature sinking closer to hell in his transformation from good to evil; Shelley's use of this imagery once again reflects the literary text of 'Paradise Lost'.cofd f...

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