Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an intense and gripping novel which follows the life of a group of English schoolboys who were evacuated during World War Two and their plane crashed on a desert island As many writers at this time were exploring the effects of such atrocities as the Holocaust the novel would seem to be Goldings attempt to discuss his theory that man is fundamentally evil and that it is only society that civilises him By placing a group of schoolboys in such a context Gol
The Lord of the Flies is a thought provoking novel that questions the very fundamentals of human nature It was written a short time after the end of the War World 11 and the nature of war calls into to question the nature of man It is hard for us who live in Australia during the 21st century to imagine the horrors of war which highlights mans inhumanities against man The killing and savagery of war goes against what we hold as morally right News of school yard shootings and crazed gunmen send s
The Key To Survival The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel is divided up into three sections that at first seem fairly inconsequential to one another However shortly into the reading of the second part of the novel a reader will realize the importance and depth reached by bring these two separate pieces of work together One of the most obvious themes of the novel enhanced by strong metaphors and symbols is survival Martel is able to indirectly describe nearly every type of basic survival strategy
In the novel Life of Pi protagonist Piscine Patel characters Richard Parker tiger and the zebra quickly develop survival skills on the life boat Piscine Patel Pi is a young boy from India He lives with the comfort of his Mother Father and younger brother Ravi Santosh Pis father is a zoologist and he owns the Calcutta zoo When the family travels to Canada on the Tsimtsum it sinks and tragedy rages With a tiger zebra hyena and orang utan aboard the lifeboat Pi has a lot to deal with Low supplies
Title The setting of a novel is often an outward reflection of inner turmoil It is the physical depiction of the metaphysical Humans are enigmatic creatures who hide emotions beneath the surface of their skin through a crooked smile or a hard look In Apocalypse Now the soldiers may surf the waves of a foreign land in order to replace fear with familiarity but a bravado that stems from an inability to confront the truth will only perpetuate oppression The Vietnam War parallels the colonization o
Like Adam I was created apparently united by no link to any other being in existence however many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition pg 93 94 This quote from the monster portrays the major concept of debate throughout Frankensteins history This includes whether or not the monster is truly evil Humanity seems to influence the source of the monsters identity Though he continually searches for his place in the world humans actions toward him shape his condition throughou
Empire of the Sun Empire of the sun is a rites of passage novel about James Ballards life in Shanghai during the Japanese invasion in the 1940s It describes James life from how he changes from a posh and upper class expatriate to becoming a lonely Shanghai roamer and his time at Lunghua camp at which his views of the four main nations in the book England Japan China and America change completely Ballard presents the English at the beginning of the novel as a superpower posh and rich We know thi
A Worn Path Eudora Welty projects a theme of life and its struggles through her famous short story A Worn Path Phoenix Jackson the protagonist of the story takes a journey twice a year She travels to the city of Natchez to receive charity medicine for her sick grandson Her trip to the city is not easy since it is winter and she faces many obstacles along the way This story at a glance seems simple but in truth the story is much more complex In the short story A Worn Path there is only one main
In The Open Boat by Stephen Crane the four mens journey through the ocean represents a broader perspective at life as a whole All throughout the story several different themes are portrayed in the text In order to assist the reader in understanding the concept of these main ideas literary devices like personification sometimes in the form of metaphors are used One of the major aspects of utilizing personification is that the device gives life to the setting of the story Personification creates
In Tennysons poem The Eagle there are many writing elements that are used to create his poem The Eagle is a great reading for analyzing the elements of imagery personification and possibly symbolism Tennyson one of the greatest English poets used an array of subjects as sources of materials for his poetry Tennysons use of imagery personification and symbolism in The Eagle are used to create this wonderful and descriptive poem First and foremost imagery is key to almost all narrative fiction Ima