Peter Benchley

Often times iconic scenes in a movie will have amazing music, sound effects and vocals to tie the whole scene together, and with all of these, visuals are not really needed, they will only give a crystal clear image of what the director has already portrayed with sound. One example could be the shower scene in Psycho; if you turn off the screen and only listen to the sound; an almost crystal clear visual is made because you can hear what is actually going on. Another perfect example is the…

Civilization is a socially constructed concept. Many civilizations use symbols to help understand a larger concept such as a flag, is simply a piece of cloth but we use it to symbolize an area. The novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, centers around a group of English boys who get stranded on an island and while on the island, they try to maintain a perfect civilization. The boys use objects to return normalcy into their lives. Golding uses the conch, the fire and the beast to portray…

The first reference to the beast is found in the beginning of Chapter Two, when a littlun claims he saw a “beastie” in the woods at night. However, all the boys belittle the littlun, dismissing any idea of a “beastie”. The beast is not referenced to again until Chapter Five, when Ralph calls an assembly after the signal fire goes out. Ralph confronts the boys about their general fear of the beast, and Jack assures the concerned boys that there is no beast on the island. However, one littlun…

Jack manipulates the myth so the boys bow down to him instead of Ralph. Jack talks about how they are going to catch the beast. He does this so the boys join in. He also tries to make Ralph look dumb by making Ralph one of the only ones to say it is not real. Jack makes the boys believe the beast is so real, he creates details for it make the boy believe it more and more. Jack would have gone through anything to become the chief. Hitler and his propaganda machine used the same tactics as Jack…

The book delves into the residents of Amity in more depth than the film, but none of it is very interesting. Amity is a small town of about a thousand year-round residents, with the population increasing to around ten thousand during the summer. The year-round residents depend on the summer crowds to sustain them through the rest of the year, so when the pesky shark starts dining on tourists and Sheriff Brody is forced to close the beaches, it could spell doom for the town. The book does a good…

Some of the similarities of Ralph and Jack are they both are older boys who are quickly establishing to be the leaders of the island. They both agree that rules are necessary for their survival. They differ because Jack is so focused on killing a pig he forgets about the most important things, like survival and shelter. Ralph and Jack disagree what is important. Jack says, “you need an army-- for hunting. Hunting pigs--”(32). Jack thinks too much about himself and glory of killing a pig. Ralph,…

“What I mean is… maybe it’s only us”(Golding 80). Simon, one of the young boys stranded on a strange island, is referring to the beast and attempts to contradict the rest of the boy 's fears that the beast is somewhere among them. He instead suggests that the evil has always been within them. However, could a group of young, innocent boys really be a manifestation of the cruelty and evil that inhabits human beings? William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies begins when a plane full of English…

-Goldings weave of religious imagery and symbolism in the Lord Of The Flies is heavily imbedded using simon as a religious figure to kinda represent God. I do believe there is redemption with simon being the simon being the savior figure, and that is when he is killed or when there saved from the island or when the conch was smashed. Doing a little research on the garden of Eden I found that the translation is “related to an Aramaic root word meaning "fruitful, well-watered." This textual…

How does William Golding Present the Descent from civilisation to Savagery in ‘Lord of the Flies’? The book ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding is a novel which explores the descent from civilisation to savagery in a group of young British boys who are stuck on an island during a war. The main cause of the descent to savagery is the fact that two of the strongest characters on the island are in conflict. This affects everyone on the island, as one of the boys is the leader, and the other boy…

In the Lord of the Flies, the boys on the island are young and proper kids from Britain. They are merely school children who have never experienced a tribulation as great as being alone on an isolated island. The boys have only past experiences and knowledge to to figure out a way to survive on the island. Growing up civilized helps the boys to create a structure by which to live and an ordered way of doing things. However, while on the island, the boys experience a loss of innocence while…