Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Can anyone help me with my essay?? If any one could revise it, make any suggestions, or add anything to it...?

Symbolism Galore

Golding uses symbolism though out the novel in order to support the theme that within all humans a battle rages between civilization and savagery. He uses symbols such as the conch shell, the rescue fire, and the boys hair in order to both symbolize savagery and civilization, and to show somewhat of a time line of which one is prevailing on the island.

The conch shell is recurring symbol of civilization and order throughout the novel. From the beginning Piggy is the first character to recognize the power of the conch “We can use this to cll the others, have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us-.”(Golding 16) This signifies that the children on the island will still answer to order and authority. Which shows that they are still tied to civilization at this point. Yet later when “The conch exploded into a thousand fragments and ceased to exist.”(181) With this, the long belated death of order and connections to civilization on the island has finely come. The shell is shattered by a bolder that was deliberately pushed to kill Piggy, which it sadly did. After the crushing of the conch and the death of Piggy, complete chaos ensues that had been previously unrivaled in the novel.

The well-being of the fire is an indictor of the boys desire o return to civilization. In the beginning of the novel Ralph is determined to keep the fore going so that the could get rescued. “We want smoke. And you go wasting your time. You roll rocks.” (108) Although many of the other boys are not helping, Ralph still wants to keep the fire going. This shows his determination to return to civilization. Later though, when “The fire was out, smokeless and dead; the watchers were gone, a pile of unused fuel lay ready.”(68) The boys have now given into their savage ways, no longer wanting to leave the island. Yet the pile of unused fuel lay ready, indicating that they may still have hope of rescue and return to normal society.

The boys of the islands’ hair acts as a timeline as one progresses through the novel. Roger was the first character to have his hair change, his “shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness to something forbidding.”(60) His hair changing symbolizes how he is transforming into a darker character and that he is allowing his inner savage to come out. The only character who’s hair does not change is Piggy. “The rest were shock headed, but Piggy’s hair still lay in wisps over his head a though baldness were his natural state and his imperfect covering would soon go, like the velvet on a young stags antlers.”(64) His unchanging hair symbolizes that he is staying “civilized” while the other boys are becoming savages.

The Lord of the Flies in its entirety is filled with symbolism. Golding uses this symbolism masterfully in order to convey the theme that in all humans there is n ongoing battle that rages between civilization and savagery.Can anyone help me with my essay?? If any one could revise it, make any suggestions, or add anything to it...?
it's well written has a few typing errors in the spelling so if you are printing it go through and finish some of the words. and you might think about using whose instead of who's. I believe is the correct modification. The only character %26quot;who’s%26quot; hairCan anyone help me with my essay?? If any one could revise it, make any suggestions, or add anything to it...?
Nice one.