Comparing Lord Of The Flies And A Doll's House

When people read books, they often get into them and some can even change their views on life. Certain books can have assertainable stories that are strongly appealing to others mentality. If a person is going through a problematic period and they read a book where the main character is in a predicament that is similar, that reader might connect to that book/literary piece and it may transform their views on life and the world around them. With the literature that I have read this semester, there were times where they made me think about life and how it truly is. Some of them even made be see the world and society differently. The two literary pieces that we read this semester that changed my observation of the world was William Goldings book, the Lord of the Flies, and Henrik Ibsens playwrite, A Doll’s House. When I finished reading William Goldings, the Lord of the Flies, I actualized two things;

Torvald after he confronts Nora about the letter, he tells her that they can go on living a regular life to society even though they have this problem and it will never be the same with their relationship again. This message in the play makes me aware that people’s mental psychology can trick them into believing different things when all they want is to look good for society. An example of my awareness is if an individual has a terrible life at home, where they get abused by their parents and don’t eat often, but they tell their friends that their family just went on vacation and they had a huge dinner with their family. It is upsetting to actually grasp this because the people that you pass on the sidewalk or at work, may be just like this and you would never