Have you ever wanted to know why people change? If they change for the good? If they do it for a special reason? Well there is always a change for people in their life. Although, there are two main reasons for the change of a human. Fear and the desire for acceptance has the ability to change a human’s morals. Fear and the desire for acceptance influences a human’s behavior, by causing a human’s action to do what they think is right to be accepted and avoid fear. Both “Cask of Amontillado” and Lord of the Flies. In the text “Cask of Amontillado”, Montresor has the fear that Fortunato will cause more harm to people. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.”(Poe) …show more content…
Montresor’s fear of Fortunato causes him to take action to get revenge on him. Montresor has the fear that Fortunato will cause more harm to people of his civilization. Montresor kills Fortunato and thinks that is right for his self approval and he avoids the fear of any more injuries to his people. In Lord of the Flies the choir always agrees with Jack and wants to stay by his side constantly. When Jack left the group, his choir literally stole wood and went to go find him. "I expect…no, he wouldn't go into the forest by himself would he?…I seen them stealing off when we was gathering wood. They went that way."(Golding, 183). Jack's choir does this, so they can avoid his punishment and feel accepted by him. This clearly shows that they avoid their fear of Jack's punishment and they have the desire to be accepted by Jack like they are his henchmen. As shown in both texts, fear and desire of acceptance will cause a human to avoid fear and do what they think is right to be accepted. Fear and the desire for acceptance influences human behavior by making people play a role that their position puts them in.
In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Ms. Hutchinson is stoned to death, even by her own family. "It isn't fair," she said. "A stone hit her on the side of her head. Old man Warner was saying, "Come on, come on, everyone” (Jackson). The Hutchinson family wouldn't have been accepted if they chose to not kill the person that has to be stoned. It is their culture to kill a person each year and even their own family has to do attack. So this puts them in a position they are forced to be in. In Lord of the Flies, Piggy is always shut down and is either assaulted or bullied in another way. In this scene Piggy's weakness is really shown and Jack notices Piggy's specs can light a fire. "His specs - use them as burning glasses!" Piggy was surrounded before he could back away..."Mind out! Give em back! I can hardly see! You'll break the conch!"(Golding, 38). Ralph elbowed him to one side and knelt by the pile." This is a desire for acceptance because Piggy wants to be a greater kid on the island but him being fat gets rid of any hope of that happening. Piggy is put in a position where he can't show his true potential which is his intelligence. This shows that playing the role a position puts you in can cause fear and the list for
acceptance. Fear and the desire for acceptance can lead human behavior to be dark, evil, or make the human become malicious. As shown in the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the guards did his own little experiment. "I decided to do my own experiment and be more scary"(Zimbardo). one of the guards became more brutal and intimidating. After the guard realized that he wasn't feared as a guard he became brutal to the highest degree he was allowed to go to and instead of having fear of something, he put fear into the prisoners. Not only that, but it was almost like the prisoners had to accept his order and his ways. Lord of the Flies has the character, Jack; a choir boy that becomes savage and pure evil. He even started the song "Hunt the pig, kill the pig, cut its throat, spill it's blood!" (Golding, 74). Jack never seemed like the person to become malicious, but this darkness was only the beginning of his darkness and his evil ways. At the end of the book, he try's to kill Ralph, which pure evil and darkness within Jack is completely released, but really shows how fear and the desire for acceptance make a human dark, evil and malicious. Throughout a human's life there will be change. People change because their environment causes them to change. Change won't always be for the good. And of course there is reason for the change of a human whether it is to avoid fear and do the right thing, playing a role they are put in or whether it is to become dark and evil.
Ralph joins Jack and the hunters in the hunt for the pig and gets caught up in the excitement of the kill. Prior to this, Ralph has been the voice of reason and common sense on the island. Now, he has let his urge to kill take over, and he is obviously excited and enjoying it.
A group of kids got stuck on an island after their plane got shot down and they all have many different personalities. Being stuck on an island usually brings out the worst of people.But, there were two characters in novel, “The Lord of The Flies” that had good morals. These two characters were Ralph and Simon. Ralph and Simon weren’t intimidated by not having any adults around, instead, they tried to bring out the best of themselves and not take part in any horseplay the rest of the boys did.
The influence of power, or “power hungry”, has had a huge effect on many people who feel that they must be in charge. These people often have trouble being told no or being told that they can’t be in charge. People throughout history have done it in many ways. Our own government displays this when we elect a new president every four years. These candidates often tell the public what they want to hear and how they’ll make it a better place, when, in reality, they only mean half of it and they just want to be able to have the power of the president. In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the antagonist, Jack, shows throughout the book that he craves power and feels that he deserves it more than anybody else.
"His [Piggy] head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed. Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone."
Ralph finds himself under the reign of the Lord of the Flies, Ralph who shows the tone of curiously uneasy, is stunned by the confident mockery of the Lord of the Flies.
“The duty of the youth is to challenge corruption,” Kurt Cobain once said. The Lord of the Flies tells a fictional story of a group of kids whose plane crashes on an island. Among these boys is Jack, a choirboy who is eager to hunt and create laws. However, in Lord of the Flies, the character Jack shows himself to be an arrogant tyrant because throughout the novel he acts in a way that is cruel, evil, and violent.
Mankind is innately evil. The allegorical novel, The Lord of the Flies, allows for little interpretation about human nature. William Golding depicts the idea, “evil is an inborn trait of man” (Golding). Throughout the novel the children who have crash landed on the island begin to uncover their savage nature. Although all of the children somehow succumb to a heinous behaviour, Jack, Ralph, and Roger become most noticeably corrupt. Ultimately, it becomes clear that malicious intent is intrinsic in mankind.
Authority plays a vital role in the modern world through contrasting forms of government and the struggle for power between leaders. The leader of a society asserts power over its citizens with the aim to create the laws, which hold the society together. Once authority is demolished within a community, the power spreads to its citizens in which total chaos collectively overtakes the society. The process of law-making and a struggle for power takes precedence in William Golding’s allegorical novel, Lord of the Flies, through the conch shell found upon the shore. The conch grants superiority to one member of the group over the others, it is used to call assemblies and assists in choosing the speakers during important meetings. When the conch
Writer Steven James said, “The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.” This quote can be used to accurately describe Jack Merridew, one of the young boys who becomes stranded on an unknown island in the Pacific. Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding; the novel explores the dark side of humanity and the underlying savagery in even the most civilized person. The novel opens on a group of British boys between ages six and twelve stranded on a tropical island without adult supervision. The boys elect a leader in an attempt to form a civilized society; however, their peaceful island descends into chaos as Ralph and Jack continuously argue over who should be the leader of the island. From the beginning of the novel, Jack is seen as power hungry, envious, and manipulative to further his own agenda, the anti-thesis to Ralph’s concern with social order and their future.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” is a short psychological thriller. The murder of Fortunato haunts Montresor so greatly that he feels the compulsion to tell the story some fifty years after the fact. He appears to be in the late stages of life desperately attempting to remove the stain of murder from his mind. That it is still so fresh and rich in specifics is proof that it has plagued him, “Perhaps the most chilling aspect of reading Poe’s ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ for the first time is not the gruesome tale that Montresor relates, but the sudden, unpredictable, understated revelation that the murder, recounted in its every lurid detail, occurred not yesterday or last week, but a full fifty years prior to the telling” (DiSanza).
Poe's, The Cask of Amontillado is a story about fear and revenge. The story begins with Montressor's vow of revenge, foreshadowing future actions. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult vowed revenge..." Montressor had to be sure not to raise suspicion of what he was going to do Fortunato. Montressor knew that Fortunato had a weakness that he could use towards his advantage.
The boys become accustomed to the pattern of their days on the island although it is impossible to adjust to the new rhythms of tropical life, which include the strange point at midday when the sea rises and appears to contain flickering images. Piggy discounts the midday illusions as mere mirages. While mornings are cool and comfortable, the afternoon sun is oppressively hot and bright, which incites fatigue among many of the boys. The northern European tradition of work, play, and food right through the day is not forgotten, making the transition difficult.
Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding in 1954 about a group of young British boys who have been stranded alone together on an island with no adults. During the novel the diverse group of boys struggle to create structure within a society that they constructed by themselves. Golding uses many unique literary devices including characterization, imagery, symbolism and many more. The three main characters, Ralph, Piggy, and Jack are each representative of the three main literary devices, ethos, logos, and pathos. Beyond the characterization the novel stands out because of Golding’s dramatic use of objective symbolism, throughout the novel he uses symbols like the conch, fire, and Piggy’s glasses to represent how power has evolved and to show how civilized or uncivilized the boys are acting. It is almost inarguable that the entire novel is one big allegory in itself, the way that Golding portrays the development of savagery among the boys is a clear representation of how society was changing during the time the novel was published. Golding is writing during
Anything not taken in moderation can be damaging. In one of Edgar Allen Poe's best-known tales of horror, "The Cask of Amontillado," he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing, when one is overwhelmed with it. Through the use of foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism, Poe presents a horrific drama of two men. One who will stop at nothing to get the revenge that he deems himself and his family worthy of, and another who's pride will ultimately be the fall of his own death. Fortunato falls prey to Montressor's plans because he is so proud of his connoisseurship of wine, and it is for the sake of his own pride that Montressor takes revenge on Fortunato. Poe utilizes the theme of pride and many other literary techniques such as foreshadowing, revenge, and irony, in order to create a horrific and suspenseful masterpiece.
Widely regarded as E. A. Poe's finest story, "The Cask of Amontillado" depicts a deed so horrific that for many it defines evil. Edmund Clarence Stedman said of Poe's writings: "He strove by a kind of divination to put his hand upon the links of mind and matter, and reach the hiding-places of the soul". Even though 20th century theories of psychology would not be formulated until many years after Poe's death, he nevertheless delved into the realm of abnormal psychology instinctively and perhaps never with a more terrifying outcome than in the character of Montressor, a man so bent upon revenge that he walls his enemy up in a crypt and leaves him to die. Is Montressor a madman, or is he evil personified? Is Fortunato merely the unfortunate victim of a deranged murderer, or did he entice Montressor to commit the deed? By applying 20th century psychological guidelines, one can speculate that Montressor is not insane per se but is afflicted with a malignant narcissistic disorder which, when aggravated by Fortunato's egotism and naiveté, drives him to commit his violent act.