Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies different qualities of leadership are shown by different characters all with different prospects and priorities All these different qualities help reflect the personality of the different characters At the beginning of the novel Ralph is chosen to be chief by his fellow islanders This may have been because he immediately took charge and blew the conch to gather everybody together these bold actions may have made Ralph seem a strong leader However a reader
Archetypical characters give readers an idea of the roles that certain people play in a story The characterization of Jack Ralph and Piggy strengthens the underlying archetypical characters in the novel The three greater archetypical characters that are strengthened are the bully the leader and the outcast characters The archetypical character the bully is very strong in Goldings novel The Lord of the Flies This archetypical character gives readers an idea of the most dominant role that society
In a group there will be the ones that come out with better characteristics as a leader than the others The strongest among the others has the greater influence on the group and tends to have the others follow him or her All the same every now and then the strongest person will not work out to be the best choice William Goldings novel Lord of the Flies Ralph clearly not stronger than a few of the others though he shows a better understanding of the people and the common good which ultimately gi
In the novel Great Expectations Charles Dickens brings into close focus the social attitudes of 19th Century Victorian England and warns readers of the destructive nature of unrealistic aspirations The protagonist Pip attempts to climb the social hierarchy and become a gentleman Pip goes through three stages of moral maturity He begins the story as an innocent and nave boy with no aspirations but in his desire to better himself he becomes an arrogant young man where self gratification is the dr
The story Girl by Jamaica Kincaid is a dialogue between a mother and daughter though the long and list like form of the narrative implies that perhaps the guidance the mother is providing is actually a memory The mother is the primary speaker based on the volume of her comments but it is clear that the daughter is the protagonist the story is written in such a way that the reader responds along with daughter to the mothers comments which take the form of a series of lessons the point of the les
In what ways does Mary Shelley create sympathy for the monster When we see the name Frankenstein we are instantly reminded of the doctors creation and of how he played God with out even knowing it Even by todays standards he went against human nature after being warned not to Before studying Frankenstein I stereotypically associated the monster to hideous rejects in society However the monster was brought into the world isolated unwanted and discarded he deserved sympathy not cruelty Modern day
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
In Rudolfo Anayas novel Bless Me Ultima the basic point of the novel in my perspective is the growth of the main character Antonio Antonio has three main dreams in the story and each one of them meaning something and showing something bout him In Antonios first dream he sees a baby being born but it was later in the dream when he realized the mother was his own Its quite amazing how Antonio can remember his birth and the events that happened that day He remembers that his fathers side of the fa
A Tale of Two Cities Leadership is a necessary component to starting a revolution especially one so powerful and violent like the French Revolution A person who carefully plans out their ideas and turns them into actions is a good leader In The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens leadership is needed to guide the revolutionaries There are two characters in the book that would be considered leaders of the French Revolution Monsieur and Madame Defarge Madame Defarge would make the best leader b
A P by John Uplike is a story about Sammy a nineteen years old boy Uplike sets him in the relation w in life one must make countless decisions on a daily basis From what he or she wants to wear in the morning to whether they think that it is the right stock to invest in at that time choices are always there In John Updikes A P Sammy the local cashier makes difficult and immature decision that he must live with the rest of his life Uplike uses image Sammy to the symbolisms of the youth and Sammy