Title: Mans intellect vs mans unreasoning cardinality. Using the book "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, this is a character analysis of piggy and how he relates to social allegories.
Date Submitted: 09/13/2000 15:37:35
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 2 pages (556 words)
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 2 pages (556 words)
Clayton M. Ferguson
March 1- 2003
10H- English
MANS INTELLECT AND TECHNOLOGY
VS.
MANS UNREASONING CARNALITY
Character Analysis- Piggy
Have you ever wondered what true human nature is? Have you ever questioned your own nature as well as societies effect on it? To give an insight on these puzzlements, an accomplished author, William Golding wrote the novel entitled " Lord of the Flies." The novels much speculated theme is that mans true nature is inherently evil."(Golding 204) …
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…the Flies." William Golding described the purpose of the novel as an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. Piggy, symbolizing intellect and civilized society is killed by the force of Jack and his savage hunters who symbolize mans unreasoning carnality. While making the theme, that all men are inherently evil,"(Golding 204) does Golding take into account humanity at its purist and most innocent form, the human infant?
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