... their life and death.  Matthew Arnold makes use of water and the ocean as a metaphor for his feelings in To Marguerite--Continued and Dover Beach. In Marguerite, Arnold see people as small islands surrounded by "echoing straits...Dotting the shoreless watery wild" (2-3). Humans feel the water and understand the amount of distance separating them from others. Nightingales sing, ... flying from person to person, like hope. "For surely once, they feel, we were/ Parts of a single continent" (13-14)! Arnold is expressing his thoughts about ... but disciplined by order and tradition to someth...

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... good news. On the other hand, the "beast" (an imaginary creature of which all of the boys are afraid) is a symbol of both the devil and the immorality of society. Jack, the ringleader of the "savages" is a clear representation of the capacity for evil in each of us and Ralph, a wholesome saint-like character, symbolises the good. But it is not only characters that work as symbols. The conch (a large shell used to call the boys for meetings) is ... interpret that Golding is trying to represent human nature in its entirety. In this representation he shows that contrary to the belief that ...

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