What are the other Themes to Lord of the Flies?
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Power \nDifferent types of power, some used and abused. Democratic power is shown when choices and decisions are shared among many people on the island. Jack shows authoritarian power by threatening and terrifying others. Some of the boys utilize brute force, when hunting for pigs, and later hunting for Ralph. \n\nFear of the Unknown \nThe boy's fear of the unknown on the island leads to their fear of the beast. The boys cannot accept the notion of a beast existing on the island, nor can they let go of it. The recognition that no real beast exists, and that the only beast on the island is fear itself is one of the deepest meanings of the story. \n\nBlindness and Sight \nPiggy is blind to his immediate surroundings but really understands what is going on on the island. Unfortunately, the boys do not realize that Piggy sees more, and he is treated poorly and is eventually killed.
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I remember reading this book back in High School. I don't remember any of it though.  Have you tried sparknotes.com?  If not, I know it is a movie. That probably doesn't help you much though.  Go to sparknotes.\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/
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That's a very interesting assignment. What is YOUR question? Have you tried spark notes to help you with some ideas?\n\nAlso, there are at least 12 other people who have asked questions about Ralph in Yahoo Answers. You might find some ideas in those...\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=ArZr6Oh1ATWr9oUKlbWPc1cnzKIX?p=Ralph+Lord+of+the+Flies&scope=subject&mc=&fltr=_en&tab=0&asktime=&st=1
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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I think that you can compare HG Well's story to that of "The Lottery". The Lottry was a short story that was written in the 1960s? (around there) that was first published in the New Yorker. The story was very innovative for its time and shocked many readers, causing a big stir. It's "the world is changing" themes should be comparable to "War of the Worlds". You can find a detailed description of the effects of "The Lottery" in Wikipedia.
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Basic ideas are that\n\n1. man repeats the same mistakes over and over and doesnt learn from his mistakes, despite technology.  Mankinds propensity for war is unstoppable, because it is in MAN'S nature.\n\n2. In the future, mankind will reap the rewards of thousands of years of war.....Humanity split into 2 groups representing the dual nature of man..The eloi ..as innnocent as Adam and Eve in the garden of eden, but with not moral sense of right or wrong....and the Morlocks...hideously evolved canabalistic humans that live underground and who resemble APES more than men, exploiting the eloi.\n\nAfter defeating the Morlocks, George returns to the future to rebuild Humanity future with 3 books from his library.\n\nThe question unanswered is, working with an inocent civilization like the Eloi, which three books would YOU choose, to avoid humanity duplicating its past.\n\nThe following is a synopsis of the story from a site dedicated to Rod Taylor who sterred in the movie.\n\n\n................\n\n\n"The Time Machine" (1960)\nRod Taylor plays George (H. G. Wells) in this science fiction classic, his first full-fledged starring role.\n\nAnd all the first-time leading man had to do was make us believe in time travel, deliver poignant social commentary, fight off fearsome mutant creatures, and convey the emotions of a longtime friendship as well as a new romance.\n\nOf course, Taylor succeeds as director George Pal delivers a film with Oscar-winning special effects wrapped up in a story with deliberate pacing and fine performances.\n\nTaylor faces a challenge from the start: He must burst upon the scene -- a very civilized Victorian-era dining room -- bearing the horrors and wonders he's seen as he's traversed the centuries. And despite his bloodied, battered, wearied state, Taylor must make it clear he's no mad scientist.\n\nThrough flashback, the tale starts on a small scale, literally, as George demonstrates a miniature version of the time machine. Among friends, he calmly poses the possibility of moving through time as easily as we move through space. But his friends scoff, and tell him he should put his talents toward helping the war effort.\n\nOne friend, Filby (Alan Young) comes closest to believing -- actually fearing -- that the machine really could work, and he stays behind to gently caution George. But determined to seek wisdom from the people of the future, George sets off to test his time machine -- on a large scale.\n\nMaintaining the pacing that roots the story in the plausible and familiar, Pal doesn't have George leap into the machine and race off to the distant future. No, he advances hesitantly at first. We're given visual cues of the passing of time -- a candle burning quickly, the sun racing across the sky. And we get cues that the machine does not pass through space -- sharing George's amusement as he watches the fashions change on the mannequin in the store window across the street.\n\nEmboldened, George jumps ahead in greater increments but stopping at familiar timeposts -- World Wars I and II -- where we encounter familiar faces and reminders that the place is the same. Nuclear war devastates everything during a stop in 1966, and George finally races ahead.\n\nWhen he reaches the year 802,701, London seems to have become a Garden of Eden. We're alone with George now, and we follow Taylor's reactions as the actor ranges through an arc of emotion. We feel George's wonder and amazement while exploring the exotic landscape, then his despair when he senses his isolation. His delight upon sighting the carefree Eloi gives way to anger as he leaps into action to rescue Weena (Yvette Mimieux) from drowning. Ultimately, he is perplexed at the apathy of Weena and her people.\n\nBack at a dinner table -- surrounded by Eloi rather than his old friends -- George at last gets his chance to satisfy his curiosity. He peppers his companions with questions. But their minds are e
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To escape the bourgeois oppression that devloped from the capatilisitc society of Ponyville, some ponies created the socialist and ultimately classless society of Butterfly Island.  \n\nEverything else from that point is just a metaphor for the proletariats -- Sew-And-So Pony represents those working in factories, Apple Spice Scent represents equal food for all, etc.
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life is short\nbutterfly boucher\na&m records\n\npersonally i prefer 'cosy in the rocket' the theme by psapp
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I really really really love this question. I think you may just be right.They definitly have a greek/roman theme going. the god of love, the love carebear, grumpy carebear and the gods of war
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I had to go back and reread the poem to remember it in particular from my high school Lit Class (5 years...  sheesh!).  Anyway, its main theme is basically as everyone has said- a warning that even mankind's greatest works shall eventually crumble to dust.\n\nWithin Temptation does a song on their Mother Earth CD entitled "Never-ending Story" that sums up the main point of Ozymandias nicely with the lyrics, "We'll all be forgotten  |  There's no endless fame".\n\nHowever, we can go into a bit more depth about the secondary themes of hope and rebirth.  In lines 10 through 14, Ozymandias reads as such:\n"'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:\nLook on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'   \nNothing beside remains: round the decay   \nOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,   \nThe lone and level sands stretch far away."\n\nThese lines serve to anchor the somewhat depressing mood, but give infinite hope as well.  Even though King Ozymandias is telling us to despair, for all we do will eventually disappear, he is also telling us to look upon his works as they are in the here and now.\n\nThe boundless sea of sand that was once his great kingdom may seem like it has been destroyed, but in fact Ozymandias has *created* it as his buildings and monuments have crumbled.  Essentially, the poem is commenting that nothing mankind can build will last- but as those things are annihilated they create the soil, and in turn the plants and stone, that generations down the road will use to build their own monuments.  Even though we may die and rot in the present, we are immortal as part of the life cycle that is always recycling into the next incarnation of life.  Who knows, when we eventually croak, we might all come back as daisies!
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Hope these help.  There are loads of allegories in YGB, mostly having to do with sin, redemption, and human nature.\n\nThe Forest as Eden \n\nGoodman Brown appears to represent human beings confronted with temptation–that is, he wishes to enter the dark forest of sin, so to speak, to satisfy his curiosity about the happenings there and perhaps even to take part in them. The man who meets Brown in the forest appears to represent the devil; his staff is a symbol of the devil as a serpent. Thus, we have Adam (Brown, curious to learn forbidden knowledge) facing the serpent in the Garden of Eden. It was, of course, a tree–the Tree of Knowledge–that enticed Adam. Goodman Brown is enticed by an entire forest. Like Adam, he suffers a great fall from innocence. Faith appears to represent Brown’s religious faith and his faith in others; her pink ribbons stand for innocence. \n\nPrimordial Symbols \n\nPsychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) theorized that all humans share certain inborn impulses and concepts residing in the mind at the unconscious level. For example, all humans react to sunlight in the same way, perceiving it as a symbol of  joy, happiness, glory, optimism, truth, a new beginning, or God. Likewise, humans associate dark forests (like the one in "Young Goodman Brown") with danger, obscurity, confusion, and the unknown or with evil, sin, and death. Jung termed external stimuli (such as dark forests) primordial symbols–primordial meaning existing from the beginning of time. Examples of other primordial symbols you may encounter in your study of literature include the following: a river (the passage of time), overcast sky (gloom, depression, despair), lamb (innocence, vulnerability), violent storm (wrath, inconsolable grief), flowers (delicacy, perishability, beauty), mountain (obstacle, challenge), eagle (majesty, freedom) the color white (purity, innocence), the color red (anger, passion, war, blood), the color green (new life, hope), water (birth or rebirth), autumn (old age), winter (death).  \n\nThemes in Young Goodman Brown\n\nTheme 1 How the Puritans’ strict moral code and overemphasis on the sinfulness of humankind foster undue suspicion and distrust. Goodman Brown’s experience in the forest–whether dream or reality–causes him to lose his faith in others and die an unhappy man. Note the last words of the story: “They carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom.”  \n\nTheme 2 The realization that evil can infect people who seem upright. Goodman Brown discovers that even highly respected people in Salem fall victim to the forces of darkness. Today–when corporate executives cheat stockholders, politicians lie to win elections, and members of the clergy defraud their congregations–this theme still resonates.  \n\nTheme 3 One man’s virtue is another man’s sin, and vice versa. “There is no good on earth,” Goodman Brown observes, “and sin is but a name.” In other words, whether an action is good or evil appears to depend on who is viewing the action. The zealotry of a Puritan punishing a wrongdoer–like Goodman Brown’s grandfather lashing “a Quaker woman so smartly through the streets”–might be praised as a just act by another Puritan but condemned as an inhumane act by non-Puritans. These opposing views of the same action seem to confuse Brown; he is like a modern man who is told that “everything goes” or that one moral position is as valid as another, opposing one. There are, of course, absolute moral values which should prevail for everyone, regardless of their religion or lack of it. For example, murder is always wrong; child abuse is always wrong. However, the devil figure succeeds in confounding Brown on what is truly right and what is truly wrong.\n\nCheers, K
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the moral of the story/the overall message it's related to.\neg:war,betrayal,loneliness\nhope that helped.cheerz!
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Here are a few topics that you may want to consider, I don't know what type of literature you're studying nor do I know what books you've read but here are a few:\n\n1. Homer's the Iliad- maybe focus on Achilles or Hector as a tragic hero\n\n2. The Aeneid- focus on whether Aeneas betrays Dido\n If you have read African American literature such as The Color Purple or Their Eyes Were Watching God you can focus on how the main characters find themselves. Good Luck!!!
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It's called Manifest Destiny, which themes included...\n\n1. God wanted them to spread\n2. Democracy was meant to be spread\n3. The rest of the world should be like the US
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1. Beaches\n2. My Life\n3. My Girl\n4. City of Angels\n5. What dream may come\n6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\n7. Mask\n8. Milo and Otis\n9. Turner and Hooch\n10. Imitation Of Life \n11. Dying young \n12. Simon Birch \n13. A Walk to Remember \n14. Here on Earth \n15. Step Mom\n16. Il postino \n17. Pay it forward \nand many more that i cannot think of but not to forget Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Life is Beautiful, and Schindler's List
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[For whatever it's worth, I’ve tried recasting it, trying my best not to change the way you wanted to say what you wanted to say, relocating some of your ideas for a more unified presentation, better impact, all the while remaining consistent with your preference for the present tense. The paragraph breakdowns are more for consistency, flow and visual impact. Please verify your quotes; make sure they're verbatim and punctuated as they are in the book. Here goes:]\n\nFear is one of the most powerful emotions that control the way a human being acts in certain circumstances. It contributes to one’s instability and, ultimately, to irrationality.\n\nWilliam Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” is all about fear and its irrational consequences. It sheds light on that kind of fear that may not be of something physical at all. It is the irrational fear of fear itself, the big horrid “Beast of Fear” with claws, eyes, and teeth lurking inside us. It is the fear we prefer to ignore. In “Lord of the Flies,” it is the fear which leads to irrational acts.\n\nIn “Lord of the Flies,” the boys fear almost everything they see and hear on the island, assuming them to be beasts. As the novel progresses, their fear of the unknown beast becomes exceedingly powerful their attitudes towards it become increasingly irrational. Terror paralyzes their minds, leaving them too weak to face the truth about their fears. \n\nThe beast in the novel symbolizes fear flying around on the island. Fear is evident in all the boys, from the nightmares to the belief in the existence of a beast. From the moment the first littlun claims to have seen snake-monster in Chapter 2, even the hunters begin having nightmares of their own. In Chapter 5, Jack, addressing Ralph, says, “You said they dream and cry out. Now they talk not only the littluns, but also my hunters sometimes talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal.” (p. 83). Indeed, the boys’ fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives. The fact that all the boys on the island are younger than thirteen greatly affects the amount of fear that control them. Their cries can only reverberate within the walls of their own nightmares.\n\nFurther, a little boy named Phil dreams of weird animals, saying, “And I was frightened…and then I saw something moving among the trees, something big and horrid.” (p. 85) His mind is so obsessed with “beasties” it simply refuses to accept the reality that it is Simon he see in the dark. As a matter of fact, imagination and fear shape their illusory description of the beast which the twins, Samneric, describe, “There were eyes, teeth, claws. The beast followed us, nearly touched me.” (p. 100) [Question: Is this the way you intended to write this part? Your original posting made them appear like sub-topics.] But beast, it was not; it was a dead parachutist.\n\nFear of the beast totally conquers their minds, making their brains too crippled to think straight. Their imaginations are so powerful, so overpowering and wild that they fail to see the fear for what it is: the beast that impels them to crime.\n\nFear so control them to the point of believing and doing anything, even trying to regain peace and freedom from fear itself by killing the beast. Thus, when Simon comes stumbling out of the dark forest while the boys are doing a victory dance, everyone surrounds him, chanting, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" (p. 152) Believing him to be the beast, they poke savagely at him with their spears until the “Beast” is dead. The beast is dead, indeed, and fear has just taken an innocent life.\n\nHowever, not all the boys are too affected by fear. Ralph and Piggy struggle to be logical. \n\nWhen the topic of fear is brought up during one of their assemblies, Ralph declares boldly, “The thing is Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afrai
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According to http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=1252, themes are:\n\n"Themes\n\nThe theme of this poem is that a respectful distance between neighbours is the recipe for harmonious relationships:\n‘Good fences make good neighbors’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is a farmer’s pride in the wisdom passed down to him by his father:\n‘He will not go behind his father's saying’.\n \nThe poet portrays an unusual and dour country character:\n‘like an old-stone savage armed he moves in darkness’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is co-operation between neighbours:\n‘I let my neighbour know beyond the hill’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is that country people need their own space:\n‘We keep the wall between us as we go’.\n\nThe poet explores the futility of a country custom:\n‘Oh, just another kind of outdoor game’.\n\nThe poet suggests there are mysterious forces at work in nature:\n‘Something there is that doesn't love a wall,\nThat wants it down’.\n\nThe poet shows the different types of agriculture in his locality:\n‘He is all pine and I am apple orchard’.\n\nThe theme is the way some people keep to themselves, no matter what:\n‘He moves in darkness as it seems to me’.\n\nThe theme is the mental struggle between two neighbours who appear to co-operate on a physical task while they are very different in outlook:\n‘There were it is we do not need the wall’."