篇一 :Lord of the Flies书评

Lord of the Flies

The questions about human nature have been debated for thousands of years, and there are different judgments. After I have finished reading Lord of the Flies which is written by William Golding, I hold an idea that human nature is evil.

At the beginning of Lord of the Flies,the story reads not so attractive with slow plot, simple dialogue and not surprising scene description. However, when I read two thirds of the novel this far, I suddenly feel these simple dialogues seem to have more profound significance. As far as I am concerned, the children in the novel are far beyond the children’s behavior and characteristics themselves. They represent the society and the people, especially the adult society.

In my opinion, the tragedy of all things originates from the fire and the hunting in the novel. Facing the situation of living in an uninhabited island, one begins to question which is more important: fire or meat. The fire stands for civilization, and the hunting stands for violence. Lord of the Flies dramatizes a fundamental human struggle: the conflict between the civilization and the violence. The civilization means people behave peacefully and have common goals, while the violence which is against civilization means anarchy and chaos. Also, I find that the artistic feature of Lord of the Flies is that the combination of symbol and realistic depiction. The descriptions of several children are representative, which let me understand the novel much better.

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篇二 :lord of the flies

Lord of The Flies

2. What are the symbolic meanings of the four characters:

Ralph, Simon, Piggy, Jack?

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Li tingjie

2012.05.15

Abstract:

Lord of The Flies, as a famous novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding has not only attractive plots but also further profound meanings. The simple story reveals out human being’s humanity. And each character in this novel has its own symbolic meaning. In this passage I will analyze main characters’ symbolic meanings. Key words:

intellectual material true-good-beautiful barbarity humanity the owner of rights

Piggy: the intellectual and material

It’s not difficult to find out that Piggy is an intellectual. He is just like a much younger boy. He has female voice, vulnerable body and weight problem. He always refer to his aunt when he is in trouble. But to some extent, he is the intellectual. He is loyal to his friend and provides many useful suggestion. He has the glasses, by which they can make fire. But at the same time, Piggy has many weakness. He is feeble and timid. He can’t do anything without the help of Ralph. He stick to orders and rules, but he doesn’t know how to be flexible. He is so light in the head that he fails to help to deal with the matters between Ralph and

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篇三 :Lord of the Flies essay(score=88)

Wenjo Cao Mr. Garcia American History June. 12, 2013 Lord of the Flies Essay Why would the most average thoughts “to eat meat” and “to live a better life” resulted The allegory, by building up several conflicts, that is, the conflicts of humanity and barbarity, good and evil, rational and irrational, the civilized and the savages, explores an question similarly to the central idea of the book why would the men of civilization completely discard their logic and succumb to the savages? In The Lord of Flies, the blame is to the leader Ralph’s incompleteness of his nous.

Firstly, Ralph is held as leader because of his finding and blowing of the conch. “and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch.”(Golding p23). Meanwhile, Ralph fails to understand the importance to seize the power of Jack nor does Ralph sooth the awe the kids have for Jack. Ralph asks Jack after the first election, “Jack’s in charge of the choir. They can be--what do you want them to be?”(Golding p24). Ralph gave Jack the power to keep his choir under his own command. The conch after all, is just merely a symbol of power, a symbol based on the fragile frame of logic. However as time passes, the logical idea Ralph keeps emphasizing of being rescued becomes vague, the temptation of “eating meat” becomes a lot stronger, granting Jack a tremendous amount of political support. As a result, Ralph’s obscure distribute of power seeded for conflict and Jack’s prevail. The clash of the leaders resulted as the fall of the Democratic leader who has only a nominal symbol of power and the rise of the one with actual military power; Ralph is isolated rapidly and almost died if not the

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篇四 :Lord of the Flies

THE IMPRESSION OF LORD OF THE FLIES

SUMMARY

A plane which carried a group of boys from Britain for evacuation was shot down to land on an idyllic beautiful and no human habituated coral island. At first, this group of children made concerted efforts to live together in peace; nevertheless, with fear of so-called "beast", the group split into two factions: the leading of upholding intellectual democracy under Ralph and the leading of advocating instinctive autarchy under Jack. Ralph who insisted on making a fire, as a signal of distress, building the cottage, sheltering from wind and rain, commanding other members restrain their behavior was concerned about how could be saved. Jack was just fascinated by nothing but hunting wild boar. With the contradiction deepening, Jack increased his influence; on the contrast, less voice supported Ralph. By the end of the novel, in a fierce fighting, the entire island which was almost destroyed burned up in flames. Ralph's best friend Piggy was hit by the rolling stones and fell off a cliff, even Ralph himself was surrounded at the risk of being killed. At the critical moment, a British warship found the fired island rescuing Ralph.

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篇五 :theme of lord of the flies

The Theme--Human nature--in Lord of the Flies

When thinking about the theme in lord of the flies, I realize the human nature unintentionally; when thinking about the human nature, Goodness and Evilness of human nature pass through my mind immediately. According to the request and suggestion from our teacher, I write the passage focusing on the question that what are the differences between Ralph and Jack?

After reading the selected part of lord of the flies on book, I am suddenly enlightened. Imagine those human beings lived in prehistoric era, I think they may be just the same as these characters in lord of the flies in order to live up. The difference is that they never know what civilization or what morality is, nor about orders or laws, they only know that they want to be alive. For this, they use their life to pursuit their desires, the desire of human nature, the desire of instinct, which may be too ambitious and immoral in our society today. However, the kids like Ralph and Jack are different from the human beings that lived in prehistoric era, they are citizens that once lived in a civil city where orders and rules and laws are common and popular before they land on that islet. The kids clearly understand what order is, and they do have practiced the rules and laws at the beginning of their life on the island, but they stray from it gradually, releasing their natural desire and becoming out of touch with civilization. Then they show the human nature, especially the detects of human nature, which is also the theme of the novel. Following are the details I find from the selected novel. When Jack realizes the importance and practicability of Piggy’s glasses, he steals it. Later, facing Ralph and Piggy, Jack exposes his ambition and brutality. Here is the sentence. them on the lay where they had dropped it. The sentence shows that Jack has become the embodiment of wildness, he has made himself the leader of the group, and guides the group to paint face and neglect lives. These children wear their masks and release their animal instinct under the lead of Jack, wanting violence and becoming crazy about hunting. Obviously, Jack isolated from civilization gradually, he exposes his desire to kill. A kind of evilness. "Zup!" Someone was throwing stones: Roger was dropping them, his one hand still member of Jack’s group, here exposes his nature. He sees Ralph just as a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat, human in his mind is just stuff instead of real and alive life. What’s more, before killing Piggy, High overhead, Roger, with a sense of abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever,in the sentence, The word “delirious” means extremely excited, which indicates that Roger is completely controlled by barbarity, the fanaticism of blood and killing people. Also a kind of evilness.

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篇六 :lord of the flies

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Lord of the Flies

Lord of flies is about the nature of evil and the fragility of civilization such a philosophy of allegorical novels, with a strong symbolic. Story takes place in an imaginary World War III, a 6-12 group of children who were trapped in a

deserted island plane crash. Initially, they will Island considered Arcadia, is can peace along, to has later, because on a fundamental is myth of "beast" of fear, human body of instinct and beast began expansion, children were into two sent--a is insisted will was to saved they of Democrats, symbol reason and civilization; another faction is is symbol savage and violence of authoritarian sent, immersed Yu bloody of hunting among, lost has from Yu civilization social of language capacity and thinking capacity, became savage people. They are

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篇七 :Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

英语一班 陈曦 学号:1005021012

The lord of the flies is written by the English writer William Golding (1911--1994) who has won the Nobel Prize. William Golding was born in an intellectual family in England and he likes literature when he was a little boy. In 1930 he learned natural science in Oxford following his father’s advice, but he turned to learn literature two years later. In 1934 he published his first poetry anthology, than one year later he graduated from Oxford. In 1940, he joined the royal navy and participated in the Second World War. After retiring, he taught English literature in a school. In 1954 he published the novel lord of the flies which won the great reputation. In 1955 he became a member of the royal literature and six years later he got the master's degree in literature of Oxford. In 1983 he won the Nobel Prize for literature.

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篇八 :Lord of the Flies(蝇王) Essay

Text: Lord of the flies

By: Zach Wang

The Conflict between Civilization and the Instinct of Savagery

All human beings virtuous in nature, or are they born evil? This sentence indicates that the instinct of savagery is lurking in the darkness of one’s heart, till one’s morality as an imposed set of socially conditioned behaviors disappears. This thought has also been provided by William Golding through his novel Lord of the Flies, which tell the story of a group of English boys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during a great war, in fiction. It shows how the breakdown into savagery leads to disaster when a group of boys are free from the imposed moral constraints of civilization and society. In the novel “Lord of the Flies”, William Golding suggests that civilization might be superseded by the instinct of savagery when individual morality as an imposed set of socially conditioned behaviors.

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