... meets Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Disillusioned and disappointed in marriage and life, Mellors has withdrawn himself from society and tries to find his peace and loneliness in the wood. They fall in love with each other and a deep and ardent relationship develops, marked by passionate sexual acts, in ... on a sexual affair with Michaelis, one of Clifford's acquaintances. Still, she stays unfulfilled. On the contrary, she is even more hurt when they finally separate, because Michaelis complains about her bringing herself to her own orgasm after he had had his crisis. Disappo...

• Word Count: 5071
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the innate evil that exists within all human beings. The forest glade in which Simon sits in Chapter 3 symbolizes this loss of innocence. At first, it is a place of natural beauty and peace, but when Simon returns later in the novel, he discovers the bloody sow's head impaled ... leader. Throughout "Lord of the Flies," Golding makes heavy use of symbols to present the themes and dramatic conflicts of the novel. In this chapter, for instance, Golding introduces the bespectacled Piggy as a representative of the scientific and intellectual aspects of civilization. Piggy thinks critically ...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School