Bats Symbolize Evil

Margaret Atwood contradicts humans to bats in the short story, “ My Life as a Bat,” by illustrating the roles and perspectives to differentiate each substance from one another. Atwood depicts, “ That was the plan. Death by flaming bat. The bats too would have died,of course. Acceptable megadeaths” (88-89). This portrays the role of a human being prejudiced to bats and mistreating them. In the role, humans are the ones causing harm to bats and themselves, they were planning to use destructive weapons on the bats but, it would have put humans on a deadly risk. The bats aren’t doing anything wrong, they are very innocent and just happen to be in a wrong time zone. On the other hand, by the myths of humans, they think otherwise about bats. Citizens

Of the numerous strategies used throughout World War 1 and 2 those in WW2 proved more effective due to the standstill trench warfare brought, the ease with which trenches were defeated by tanks later in the war, and the speed and efficiency widespread mechanized warfare and blitzkrieg gave to armies in WW2.

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the symbols of good and evil through the Lord of the Flies and Simon. In order to convey the underlying message, that the fear of the unknown brings out the evil in humans. William Golding's fictional piece, evil is symbolized through the lord of the flies because he represents the loss of civilization and innocence. This quote shows that the character Lord of the Flies gets into the boy's thoughts, “There isn’t anyone to help you, only me. and I’m the beast fancy to think you can hunt and kill. You knew, didn’t you? I'm part of you. Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why these things are the way they are?” (Golding chapter 8). This quote proves, that the Lord of the Flies are trying to get into the boy’s heads and they are slowly becoming less civilized.

One example of the presence of evil is the Pig's head. The pigs head symbolizes the Lord of the Flies and negative engery. Evidence to prove the pigs head is an evil figure, is when Simon confonts the pigs head, “There were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.” (Golding,138). That quote shows that the pigs head symbolizes the Lord of the Flies. Another quote is when Ralph faces the pigs head, “ A sick fear and rage swept him. Fiercely he hit out at the filthy thing in front of him that bobbed like a toy and came back, still grinning into his face, so that he lashed and cried out in loathing.” (Golding,185). This quote shows that the pigs head gives a negative feeling to the people who approch it. Another example of the evil presence is the Beast; it depicts savagry. Evidence from the novel is when the boys chant “‘ Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!’” (Golding, 152) along with “Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea.” (Golding, 154). The quotations show that the boys have turned savage, by their cruel actions and desires to kill. Those symbols represent the belief of evil presence in the novel along with the presence of

Do you like, or do you dislike bats like they are a cold? If you don’t, well you’ll dislike this paragraph because this one is all about the Northern long eared bat in North Dakota. The Northern long-eared bat has been on the endangered list since November 30, 1979, and frankly they aren’t bad for being bats. There are people trying to save this animal, like environmentalists, and there’s people who dislike these bats, like farmers and ranchers. The thing is, farmers and ranchers are the people who put them on the endangered list in the first place and they don’t realize it, but they are hunting them to try and save their families and animals from this bat. They also put themselves on the endangered list because

There is a debate between scientists whether vampire bats should be killed or not. Firstly, ranchers, believe that vampire bats should be killed. For example, Chris Kraul a writer for the Los Angeles Times, shares that bats are feasting and killing off the cattle. Thus, this point proves that bats should be killed(Kraul). Secondly, Researchers believe that bats should be saved. For instance, Kraul reports that the theory for all of the attacks on the livestock are cause by timber cutting so the bats are losing food rich forests so they head toward the cattle for food. Therefore, this confirms that it is our fault for the bats attacking the livestock. Thirdly, I believe that bats should not be killed. To illustrate, Kraul tells bat based research

In Lord Of The Flies, William Golding uses a fictional being in the young boys minds to introduce the idea of savagery within human beings. For example in chapter 5 Simon states his opinion on the beast that everyone on the island fears, Simon says, “ maybe there is a beast...maybe it’s only us.” Through this statement Golding displays the idea that evil resonates within them all. Thus showing the reader that the fear that was among the boys all along was soli created by their evil acts and intentions. This fear can be seen, when the idea of a “beast” was first introduced to the novel in chapter 5, Ralph “remembering the beast, the snake…the talk of fear.” brings up the beast but the idea is quickly counter attacked by Jack saying, “...as

In Lord of the Flies, evil is described in many situations. The author Golding is trying to put an image in our heads showing how the group has lost their civilization The conch is one of many symbols in the book to show fear. Ralph found the conch on the beach and he now uses it to obtain order .Whoever uses the conch has the right to speak,also when the conch is blown it means there is a meeting.

The blackness represents darkness which scares the littluns. “Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.”(144 Golding). This shows that the Lord of The Flies is full of darkness and shows that he doesn’t have a soul. If the Lord of the Flies had a soul, then Simon would be able to see a little of light in the beast. The sow’s head represents evil is because it was used as a peace offering to the beast (135 Golding). Everyone feared the beast because they thought that the boy with the birthmark was killed by the beast instead of the wildfire they started from the first signal fire. When Jack and his choir sacrifices the pig’s head to the beast (134 Golding) it shows that the boys are full of coward and fear because they wouldn't confront the beast

In the book the Lord of the Flies the characters are generally portrayed as bad human beings. When reading this I first thought it was interesting how Goulding portrayed them, but in actuality humans have always had an evil side. I believe that humans are bad because they segregate those who are different and kill anytime they want.

The monster symbolizes the demon, for a friendly person to be so evil require a great amount of hate, it is also a reference to the bible story of David, the king of Israel, who defeated Goliath became evil at the end even though he has great faith in God when he was small. The monster turns evil because of his

In his novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini suggests that evil is not just subject to a mere one form, but rather appears in innumerable, disparate respects and that the simplest method in which to discern this myriad of evils is to categorize them into two separate groups - evil actions and pure evil. An evil action is when someone deliberately behaves in a certain manner towards another person that consequently or directly causes the other person serious harm, whether it be physical or mental. An evil person is someone who does the aforementioned evil actions repeatedly and with no remorse or guilt, even taking pleasure in what they are doing. This is seen when Hosseini portrays the main character, Amir, performing evil actions in his youth, but then ultimately showing that he is a decent person that simply makes various, unethical

Theodore Roethke’s poem ‘The Bat’ clearly focuses on the animal the bat and effectively conveys through the latter an important message to the reader. One could interpret this poem in various ways; however a prominent theme would be that every

Within the film The Dark Knight, one of the many techniques used was symbolism. One of the symbols that was portrayed throughout the film was Two-Face’ coin, it represents how Two-Face leaves his choices up to chance, but since the coin got burnt everything equals a messy death. When it comes down to it everything is a life or death situation although there were a few scenes that showed that Two-Face didn’t always listen to what the coin said because “he makes his own luck” (Nolan 2008). Another symbol was the bat signal, it represents the trust between Batman and Gordon. Harvey did use the bat signal at one point and violated the personal connection between them, which was wrong, only Gordon was allowed to use it because he earned the right

Before the reader can identify good prevailing over evil, they must know who represents the evil and who represents good. For example, the monster, Grendel is a symbol of evil. He is characterized as a demonic creature, living down in the darkness. He gets exasperated rather easily and