the beast stirs.” George R.R. Martin laid the foundation of an association of man to beast when he wrote that line in his book Storm of the Swords. Martin exemplifies his belief that mankind embodies beast trapped in itself. In the book The Lord of the Flies, the author William Golding tries to set the same theme. The setting involves a group of English children crashing on an island during the midst of war in the twentieth century. The children soon find themselves mimicking the outside war-stricken…
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