Many books are transformed into motion pictures that usually contain plots that differ from the original publication. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies novel was transformed into two theatrical versions, the 1963 version, directed by Peter Brook and the 1990 version, directed by Harry Hook. All three of the mentioned works are about a group of boys who get stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere after their plane crashes. Here we shall contrast the differences between the two Lord of the Flies movies: the exclusion of important scenes, the exposition, and character traits. In the two theatrical versions, many scenes were not included in both works. The 1963 version had some scenes that the 1990 version did not include, and vice versa. For instance, in the 1963 version, which mirrors the novel, the boys start a fire and then suddenly the fire spreads rapidly to the island. The 1990 version did show the boys starting the fire, but excluded the scene where the fire spread. However, in the 1990 …show more content…
production, when Piggy is killed by a boulder, he is shown on the ground, bleeding out, with a cracked skull. Contrastingly, in the 1963 version of the novel Lord of the Flies, Piggy is not shown on the ground when he is bleeding. Instead, he is shown being washed away into the ocean. Not showing these scenes lead to a contrast between the two movies. Therefore, the two productions differed greatly due to the exclusion of scenes. The expositions in both of the movies contrasted greatly and contributed to different plots.
For example, in the 1963 version of Lord of the Flies, a plane crashes onto the island and the boys are stuck on the island. Contrastingly, in the 1990 production, the boys are shown swimming towards the island, from which we can assume the plane had crashed in the ocean. Another example of the different expositions is that in the 1963 movie, no pilot was shown on the island with boys when they crashed. Instead, the pilot was found in a cave and believed to be the beast whom the boys feared. On the other hand, in the 1990 movie, the pilot was with the boys when the plane crashed and they were stranded on the island. However, he was not a major character due to the face that he did pretty much nothing in the movie other than sleep and act like a zombie. A difference in the two expositions led to major contrasts between the two movie versions of Golding’s Lord of the
Flies. An equally significant difference between the two Lord of the Flies movies is how the characters act and their traits. To illustrate, in Brook’s movie production, the boys are young British boys and in Hook’s production, the boys seem to be young American boys. The American form of the boys seem to be more savage and bloodthirsty. For example, Jack and his hunters had whipped a boy in the 1990 version. Also, in the earlier production of the novel, the boys are being evacuated during wartime and some of the boys are part of a choir. Contrastingly in the recent production, the boys are from a military academy and are returning home when their plane crashes. The fact that the boys are from a military academy and haven’t experienced the terror of real war may be the reason as to why the boys seem to have more savagery in them, which is shown over the duration of the 1990 version of Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The character traits of the boys in both theatrical productions differed vastly. Above we contrasted the contrariness between the two movies that were produced based upon William Golding’s Lord of the Flies: the exclusion of important scenes, the exposition, and character traits. The novel was recreated in two theatrical versions, the 1963 version, directed by Peter Brook and the 1990 version, directed by Harry Hook. It is evident that many theatrical productions are based upon popular novels, but also have many contrasts that make the two works creatively different from each other.
Comparing stories can lead to revelations about human nature.This is true for the two stories the Lord of the Flies and Divergent. Lord of the flies and Divergent prove that human nature is selfish and not open to unique people.
The books, A Wrinkle in Time and And Then There Were None, both have many differences in the movie versions. The directors of both movies change the plot to make the movie see fit to what they may have imaged the book to be, while still keeping the story line the same.
People can do anything that involves fear including turning on someone and attempting to kill them. William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1952 during the cold war. This affects the novel because children were often killed during war.This novel is important because the novel shows how the boys communicate and survive on the island. Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys on an island without any adults. In order to survive, they will have to work as a team. In the essay, I will talk about how Jack and Ralph comparison, how they have changed, and there purpose in the novel.
“Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for its means that somewhere hope is alive” (Sturgeon). In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding and the movie, Castaway, directed by Robert Zemeckis, both stories involve a person(s) getting stranded on an island. In both the novel and the movie, a group of boys and an individual demonstrate that over time that fear and the will to survive is the only thing that is driving them to make the decisions they make. They will do things that display savagery and uncivilized behavior in order to beat nature. While some may argue that the urge to gain power is what leads one to make decisions and act upon it, it is clear that fear and the will to survive is what many people act upon
The plot in the film is very similar to the book but in parts, especially towards the end, the plot is slightly different to the film. The plot is varied in the film to show
William Golding’s novel ‘The Lord of The flies’ presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island, left to try and retain a civilised society. In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes.
When put into a harsh situation evil will inevitably come out of everyone. Evil has many ways of developing but it will eventually develop. In The Count of Monte Cristo and Lord of the Flies there are multiple characters who turn evil because of harsh circumstances. As shown in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Lord of the Flies by William Golding, evil will come out of everyone if put into a bad situation.
Each version also has the main characters boarding up the windows. Anyone who thought the birds won’t attack are usually found dead, but in the movie they are found with their eyes pecked out. Also, both the story and the movie have REALLY bad endings! They aren’t very similar, but they both leave you hanging. When you see a movie or read a book you want to know what happens to the main characters. In these two, you didn’t get an ending. They left you hanging and for some people that ruins it all.
Importance of Leadership Leadership is something that stands out in people. In a group, people tend to look for the strongest person to follow. However, the strongest person may not be the best choice to follow. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph and Jack each have leadership qualities. Jack is probably the stronger of the two; however, Ralph is a better leader.
When placed on a deserted island, a group of strangers banded together to try to survive. They decided on a leader, problem-solved, fought off a beast, and formed their own society, even if it was somewhat flawed. This was the situation in the famous TV show, Lost. The Lord of the Flies and Lost are similar in these many different ways, with the exception that the show featured a tribe of adults instead of children. That just proves how difficult it is to maintain order in a society; even the adults struggled with keeping it peaceful and civilized. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding presents a broken society of savage boys fighting one another to suggest that man’s capacity for evil is brought out by the need for power and control.
William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein demonstrate how when the structure and rules of society fall away humans are, at our core, evil. In both these novels fear rips away the civilization and presents the savage core underneath human rules and customs.
In both novels, the main characters are isolated from any form of true civilisation. In Lord of the Flies, the boys find themselves on a desolate island which is devoid of any human life due to a plane crash, whereas in The Road the Man and Boy live in a bleak, destroyed America in which almost the entire population has been wiped out due to an unnamed natural disaster. Because of the lack of resources and essentials, it is inevitable that the main characters have to find means of surviving – in Lord of the Flies; this is mainly through hunting and building shelter and in The Road, the Man and the Boy trek along the barren landscape in search for any remaining food they can find.
In the novel The Lord of the flies, William Golding illustrates the decline from innocence to savagery through a group of young boys. In the early chapters of The Lord of the Flies, the boys strive to maintain order. Throughout the book however, the organized civilization Ralph, Piggy, and Simon work diligently towards rapidly crumbles into pure, unadulterated, savagery. The book emphasized the idea that all humans have the potential for savagery, even the seemingly pure children of the book. The decline of all civilized behavior in these boys represents how easily all order can dissolve into chaos. The book’s antagonist, Jack, is the epitome of the evil present in us all. Conversely, the book’s protagonist, Ralph, and his only true ally, Piggy, both struggle to stifle their inner
The film that was produced after the novel has a lot of differences and not as
Lord of the Flies: Final Essay Exam. Are the defects of society traced back to the defects of human nature? The defects of society, and how it relates to the defects of human nature, can be explained with the savagery that drives the defects of society and the same savagery that drives the defects of human nature. In this story, Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the id, ego, and superego within the characters in the book. Golding represents the id with Jack, whereas the id says “I want, and I want it now,” and Jack constantly wants and needs power, and wants his way in every situation.