Lord Of The Flies

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Lord of the Flies: Setting: Lord of the Flies takes place on an uninhabited island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, the exact date and time is unknown the reader but it is in the near future, during an atomic war going on elsewhere in the world. The scenery of the island is only extended to the reader when the boy’s knowledge of the island increases. The characters have crashed landed into the jungle of the island. We start off only following Ralph, the protagonist of the story. Ralph finds a lagoon, and the third party narrator clearly explains the scene. “Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar […] Out there, perhaps a mile away, type white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open …show more content…
He does briefly consider joining Jack’s tribe of savages, only for he own well being not because he felt the same as they did. When he was invited to the tribe’s feast he gets caught up in the adrenaline and thrill of the dances, he also participates in the killing of Simon. This knowledge that even he has this evil inside of him puts him in a state of despair. Jack: Jack represents the opposite side as Ralph does. He is the evil and dark side of humanity. In the first chapter we see that he was the head boy at his school, he is use to feeling power and control over the other boys. When Ralph is elected the leader of the group Jack is furious. To show his distaste in the results he continually pushes the rules that Ralph sets to keep a civilized population. Early in the novel Jack has a sense of morals and is quite civilized, the first time he encounters a pig he cannot kill it. He then promises that he will never hesitate to kill again. When he sees that there is a source of food on the island, he declares that they need hunters, this is so he can feed his violent urges. He is power hungry, and Ralph has taken his power and rule over the boys so he turns to hunting, to kill another living animal is the feeling of power that he …show more content…
Alice lives an uneventful domestic life with her family. The time period Alice’s story was placed in Victorian England, where she lived in a closely regimented society, being a member of the upper middle class in this time period. Being a girl of her status in the nineteenth century, she would have been very sheltered from the realities of the world. She would not have known the difference of many things in the world as most do, such as how to act around others without being silly or improper. Alice felt as though reality was too stuffy and guided for her liking. Then her reality quickly dissolves away and Alice’s fantasy world takes its place. The fantasy world that Alice develops is called Wonderland. It is exactly what it sounds like, a land of wonders magic, and strange interesting creatures. It is a place of nonsense, and concepts embody people and things. “’If you knew time as well as I do,’ said the Hatter, ‘you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.’” (“Carrell”). Here we see that time is no longer a concept made by humans, but it is now a physical being that controls all time, and can plunge anyone into forever, or a repetition of the same day or time period. In Wonderland anything is possible, if you can say it, you can see