In his first novel William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society Three main characters depicted different effects on certain individuals under those circumstances Jack Merridew began as the arrogant and self righteous leader of a choir The freedom of the island allowed him to further develop the darker side
William Goldings Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys who are lost on a deserted island and must do what they can to survive At the beginning of the novel two of the boys Ralph and Jack become leaders These differences will form the main conflict in the story The differences will cause them to hate each other and the anger that results is a recurring part of the plot throughout the novel These two boys can be compared by the way they change the reason for their actions and the way
In his first novel William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society Three main characters depicted different effects on certain individuals under those circumstances Jack Merridew began as the arrogant and self righteous leader of a choir The freedom of the island allowed him to further develop the darker side
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods they kill us for their sport Gloucesters words in Shakespeares King Lear represent a sense of futility and of being controlled by external powers revealing hopelessness at every level As the director of the most recent production of King Lear I have chosen a nihilistic perspective on the play emphasizing the bleak and meaningless world of the characters Such an approach was made famous by Peter Brook 35 years ago on the stage and then in film My style
What is the Heart of Darkness Written in the late 1898 1899 Joseph Conrad wrote a historical autobiography although not much of it his personal experience it was a collaboration of all the people in the journey through the Congo River At the start of the novella the characters are on the Thames River outside London where Marlow is telling the story that makes up Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness deals with the main character Marlow a sailor and his journey up the Congo River to meet Mr Kurtz
This commentary will examine a passage in William Shakespeares Hamlet that takes place in Scene Five of Act One from lines 42 to 73 It is a speech made by the Ghost of the late King of Denmark Hamlet to his son who is named Hamlet as well In the speech the Ghost speaks harshly about how he was killed by his brother Claudius who is now the current King of Denmark This passage is significant as it is the first real sign of plot progression within the play The Ghost explains how brutal his death w
We have only one story All novels all poetry are built on the never ending contest in ourselves of good and evil In the novel East of Eden John Steinbeck emphasizes the theme of this struggle between good and evil as he explores his characters and their lives in the California hills of the Salinas Valley He says that this perpetual battle exists as the only true human story in which all of mankind can find themselves and their thoughts and actions Every character even the malicious and blatantl
What values and attitudes are explored within Stokers Dracula How might context have influenced Stokers vision Bram Stokers Dracula is if nothing else an extraordinary exploration of the values and attitudes at turn of the 20th Century London Stoker portrays the collision of two disparate worlds the Counts ancient Transylvania and the protagonists rapidly modernising London along with a variety of other symbols in order to highlight the primary anxieties that characterised his age the dangers o
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings Julius Caesar I ii 134 135 Published in 1896 Dracula is an immensely popular novel which has never been out of print has been translated into at least a dozen languages and has been the subject of more films than any other novel Only recently however have students of literature begun to take it seriously partially because of the burgeoning interest in popular culture and partially because Dracula is a work which r
The play begins on a Monday evening at the Loman family home in Brooklyn After some light changes on stage and ambient flute music the first instance of a motif connected to Willy Lomans faint memory of his father who was once a flute maker and salesman Willy a sixty three year old traveling salesman returns home early from a trip apparently exhausted His wife Linda gets out of bed to greet him She asks if he had an automobile accident since he once drove off a bridge into a river Irritated he