Over the course of time we as people have experienced adversity and the effects that come from it. Adversity can have positive and negative impacts, many times when people struggle with adversity, it leads to chaos. We have seen this in the present, past and fiction. Adversity is shown in the present in form of a natural disaster, for example, the earthquake in Iran, adversity is seen in the past, explorers faced it, we also see adversity in the book Lord of The Flies by, William Golding. All of these examples show how adversity can have a negative impact that can turn peaceful societies into chaos.
The New York Times has an article titled Iran-Iraq Earthquake Kills More than 500, the article is about a sizeable earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 that struck Iraq close to the border of Iran on Sunday, November 17, 2017, It was so big it impacted places far away like Turkey and Pakistan. This earthquake introduced a struggle for Iran, it ruined a large portion of homes, companies, and families. It created disorder because of the danger and destruction it caused. When the citizens in Iran became notified of the earthquake, panic broke out causing chaos. After it was over with, even more, chaos broke out, the whole city was in ruins. It was hard for the Iranians to receive help because of how places were hard to get to after everything was destroyed. “‘There has been no help yet, neither food nor water, no clothing, no tents, there is nothing,’ said the resident, a man who
Civilization was created to contain social structure. However, in utmost circumstances, it is possible for instinct to triumph over civility. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a plane evacuating a group of British schoolboys that crashes over a tropical deserted island. Once they crash on the island, they pick Ralph, the protagonist of the novel, to be their leader, and Ralph chooses Jack, the antagonist of the novel, to be the leader of the hunters, establishing somewhat of a civilization. Then when Jack comes upon a mother boar and kills it, that’s when their makeshift civilization slowly diminishes and the boys become savages. In addition, loss of social structure within a society can lead to the absolute destruction of the civilization. The author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding, uses man vs man and man vs nature conflicts to develop the theme of loss of social structure leads to savagery. Golding reveals this theme by exploring the conflicts of
In ‘Lord of the Flies’, how does Golding explore the main characters’ struggle against adversity?
William Golding for Lord of the Flies and James McBride for The Color of Water have used societal external conflicts and foreshadowing throughout the book to show that “Adversity helps people grow.”
The struggle between humanity and savagery portrayed through the events of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies demonstrates how simple it is for one to succumb to the mannerisms of depravity. This is impossible with the implementation of structure and order, as such concepts provide boundaries and keep man sane and behaved. Once the boys arrive on the island, isolated and expelled from society, they look to a shell to relieve them of this hardship, and to institute a form of government that will keep them from acting out. Despite the trust they put in the shell, it fails to hold them from corruption, only adding to the growing tension between all of the boys inhabiting the mysterious island. Through the escalating tension surrounding the
Men, without rules, can be led towards destruction. Lord of the Flies depicts at first a group of boys trying to maintain order, and a later descent into savagery. One of the most direct, apparent examples of this is through Roger. Through the contrast of the self-restraint Roger has at the beginning of the novel and the murder he absentmindedly commits at the end, Golding illustrates how man’s desire for savagery is restrained only by the enforced civilization of society.
This begins to explain one of the main themes throughout the novel Lord of the Flies. For one to be uncivilized is to be barbaric and inhuman, without having a sense of culture and social development. When innocence or civilization is lost, levels of economic, social, technological, political, and cultural evolution differentiates from that of the normal, because ideas, values, institutions, and achievements of a particular society is changed. The boys in Lord of the Flies find themselves in a situation where their only option was to learn to grow up and learn to do it fast on their own. They have to learn how to survive and fend for themselves without the presence of any adult figures, and create a prosperous society for their own. They
Lord of the Flies by William Golding shows how the world is man eat man. Golding
According to the American government, at age 18 one will be recognized as an adult, but emerging brain science suggests that most people don't reach full maturity until the age 25. Throughout the book Lord of the Flies, the British boys on the island will have to mentally grow up and take responsibility for their own hands because of the absences of adults to take care of them; the children faced a struggle because they had not mastered many essential skills needed to take charge of each other, many lacked patience, resilience, and accountability. The process in which the young boys had to engage in to get rescued was long and required time and effort, many of the kids lacked patience. In order to acquire the skill patience they first had to understand that “things you want in life do not always come as soon as you wish them to; they have to be worked for and waited for at times”, many wanted result
Competition benefits an economy more that cooperation. Competition in within the technology field leads to advancing society. There are many companies who have competition and whoever who set the new standard of technology. Without competition there everyone is working together all electronics are at the same level and the only way to improve them is because they want to. Whereas with competition everyone is always asking what can I do to make this better, faster, everyone wants to get to the next curve and they want to do it first. Because of this need to be the best, to get their first people are creating technology that was unthinkable twenty years ago and now it's being used in hospitals, cars, cell phones, etc. This technology is making life better.
Bedtimes and rules are something many children despise when they are growing up. They want to grow up and break away from their parents. The boys from Lord of the Flies are experiencing what it is like to be on their own when they crash landed on an island with no adults. Boys ranging from ages five to twelve are stranded on an island together and have to learn to adapt to their new environment to survive. This creates many problems among the older boys who want to hold power. William Golding conveys that deprivation from civilization can cause people to completely change their morals and sense of right from wrong in his novel Lord of the Flies through the use of external conflict which is the boys struggle with power and being stranded on the island, savage characterization, and symbolism such as the Lord of the Flies and Jacks spear.
William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, changed the lives of many. I believe his main purpose was to show his readers the contrast between savagery and civilization. Supporting this hypothesis, Golding has placed the boys on an uncharted island without any trace of society. Most boys quickly become undomesticated while a few fight this feeling. The two sides begin to battle by a largely unequal number. The most civilized boys struggle or perish before the end of the novel while the barbaric flourish..
In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding suggests that some individuals respond to calamity by reverting back to primitive roots. Without any parental guidance or rules enforced the boys use one of the other boy, Robert, as a pig in a mock pig hunt. They restrain Robert’s arms and legs so that he can’t move or defend himself. While restraining Robert the boys start to chant and dance around in a barbaric way. This event also somewhat foreshadows, like Robert, Simon was killed in a mob of boys while they where in a trance of ritualistic dancing and chanting.
Situations can make people act in a way they would not normally. Whether it be being on a stranded island, like in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, or given eternal youth like in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, situations can bring out the worst in someone. It just goes to say that “every human being has the capacity to commit wicked acts” (Goldhill 1). Even the best of people can still be effected by a situation, much like how Piggy and Ralph in Lord of the Flies give into their instincts for a night and end up helping in the death of Simon, despite being the most civilized of the group of boys (Golding 151-153). When people are put into pressuring situations, it can cause their inner evil to come out.
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the border region of Iran and Iraq around 9.18 PM local time on Sunday. The tremors were felt across Middle East. The devastating earthquake took more than 400 lives and reduced several buildings to rubbles.
On October 15th an earthquake killed nearly 90 people. In the Philippines killed nearly 200 and displacing tens of thousands of dollars. The quake wrecked about more than 45,000 homes. These earthquakes have affected many people, damaging homes and even lives and causes millions of dollars for repairs. The quake, the strongest to hit the disaster-prone country in recent years, struck Bohol on October 15th. Felt across several neighbouring provinces, more than 2,500 aftershock have rippled through the region since.(Documents