The painting Saturn Devouring His Son is talking about a story that Saturn kills his son. The book Lord of the Flies is talk about a story that lots of boys live on an island together. I will talk about Lord of the Flies and the Saturn Devouring His Son. Lord of the Flies write about Golding, and Saturn Devouring His Son is the name given to a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. I will talk about them’s same things. Both Saturn Devouring His Son and Lord of the Flies talk about evil and savage. The painting Saturn Devouring His Son shows the savage and evil act. I will talk the evil in the painting first. The first detail in the painting is Saturn Devouring His Son. He is eating his son. He eats his son’s head first. It is very sanguinary …show more content…
I will talk about the evil first. The first detail about the evil in the book is the pig’s head. “Presently he stood up, holding the dripping sow’s head in his hands”(Golding 172). “Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her.” (Golding 170). The savage in the book is “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” Now out of the terror rose another desire, thick, urgent, blind” (Golding 192) They killed the pig, and they make pig bleed. They are really savage. They like a barbarian. They use force and power to solve all of things. “He giggled and flicked them while the boys laughed at his reeking palms. Then Jack grabbed Maurice and rubbed the stuff over his cheeks. Roger began to withdraw his spear and boys noticed it for the first time. Robert stabilized the thing in a phrase which was received uproariously” (Golding 187). "Right up her ass!” “Did you hear?” “Did you hear what he said?” “Right up her ass!” This time Robert and Maurice acted the two parts; and Maurice 's acting of the pig 's efforts to avoid the advancing spear was so funny that the boys cried with laughter.” (Golding 189) The pig’s head and Roger’s spear is the symbol of evil in Lord of the Flies. In Lord of the Flies, the pig’s head and Roger’s spear appear it will have some bad thing happen. Jack embodies the impulse toward savagery and the …show more content…
Both Jack and Roger in Lord of the Flies and Saturn in Saturn Devouring His Son they are savage. The Roger’s spear, the pig’s head, Saturn’s white hair and Saturn eat his son are evil. They are certainly the same. They really like the barbarian. They killed the innocent people to keep their power, to achieve their’s target. They are really the same. In another way, the Ralph in Lord of the Flies and the son of Saturn Devouring His Son the are also the same. Both of them are justice. They remain their’s own human nature. In the chaotic, they not followed with other people become to the barbarian. They wanted to overthrow the savage and evil controlled
Following the desperate chase after the sow, “Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push...the spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands” (Golding 135). Unlike before, this scene conveys that Jack and the boys in his tribe are capable of killing and committing brutal acts. While Jack hesitates to kill a pig at the beginning of the book because of his fears of blood and death, he eventually becomes obsessed with hunting and violence, killing a sow by vigorously “stabbing downward with his knife” and slitting the sow’s throat.
In Lord of the Flies the pig’s head on the stick represents the savagery and evil found on the island, and the pig’s head is the reason, “Why things are what they are” (Golding 143). Similarly, in Mean Girls the plastics have a Burn Book that they use to spread pernicious gossip about their classmates, and later in the movie The Burn Book causes several fights to break out among the girls. In short, the Burn Book and pig’s head cause several fights to break out among characters and represent the evil within people in both of the stories. Also, in Lord of the Flies Jack and his group breaks away from the rest of the boys because he did not want, “‘to be part of Ralph’s lot’” (Golding 127).
Lastly, “A stick sharpened at both ends,” conveyed to the children the danger of each other and Roger, the wielder of the stick, used this symbol of destruction to lead them on a hunt to kill the protagonist Ralph. The symbols with the greatest influence and power were mostly derived from a negative connotation. William Golding used both power and symbolism to create an Allegory novel that gives insight on how they have a deadly end result. The washed up Conch and Sow’s head had many differences, the most simplistic being that the head was evil, containing fear, while the Conch wielded order and civility. The plot of this novel shifts around power and what the result is of having it fall into the wrong hands.
Kill the pig! Bash him in!" (Golding 104) They go after the sow and torture it, which fills the boys with excitement even more. Even after the pig is dead, they still feel the need to torment and jump on it.
How Savagery Takes Over George R.R. Martin once said, “There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.” William Golding demonstrates that every person has savagery inside of him in his novel, Lord of the Flies. In this novel, Golding shows us that civilization is lost and savagery begins when the urge to kill takes hold of us. William Golding’s character development of Jack and motif of weapons help develop his point.
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the head of the pig becomes an ongoing and important symbol. When Jack goes hunting, he is able to kill a mother pig. He cuts off its head, places it on a stick and the pig's head becomes an offering for the beast. The pig's head represents the evil and violence that lies within the boys, it also shows a loss of innocence in the boys and it represents the title of the novel, ‘Lord of the Flies’.
The quote “‘Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!’ said the head.” (Golding 164) expresses that the Lord of the Flies is divulging to Simon that the evil is not something that can be hunted or killed but is within the boys. Simon also learns that the beast of evilness was in the boys all along. The theme Inherent Evil of Man is displayed through Simon learning that evil is within the boys and that this was the beast. This shows how the evil action appears as a beast and the understanding of evilness by
When Jack and his hunters are looking for meat in the forest, they violently torture and kill the pig, sticking a spear “right up her ass” (Golding 121). The group of boys have the ability
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, there are many symbolic concepts within the novel such as the beast, and the pigs head. Golding uses these concepts to portray to the reader his idea that when humans are left without rules or organisation they will break from a civilised manner and become savages allowing evil to over take them. One of the most important symbols used to help the reader understand Golding's idea is the beast. Many of the boys believe their is a beast on the island and become fearful.
Golding portrays mans evil through the boys' need to undermine others. In the beginning of the book Jack becomes obsessed with hunting the wild pigs that live on the island. “Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth … Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort,
Lord of the Flies dates back to 1954 when a famous novelist, William Golding decided to write a book which could show an unusual version of the human beings. Born into an environment where his mother was a suffragette and later experiencing World War II where human ruthlessness was at its peak, made him better inclined in to writing a piece where he could explain his readers how human beings react in different situations. The setting of the novel depicts a situation where the human behavior is rational. The novel hence persuades the readers to realize the importance of ethics and civilization and how their absence can disrupt the society .Furthermore, the novel shows a negative aspect of the mankind and explains the reason it develops savagery
The pig’s head signifies the Lord of the Flies by the way the boys hunted and brutally killed the pig. They slaughtered the pig by sticking a spear into its butt. Jack and his hunters believe that the pig’s head is an offering, so they can be safe from the beast; however, they are never safe from the beast. In the beginning, the island was a peaceful and comfortable place for the
The name “Lord of the Flies” is a reference to the name of the Biblical devil Beelzebub, which symbolizes the evil that potentially exists in the heart of every human. The beast was first introduced in the novel by a boy, described as “shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark.” (Golding, 27). In reality, the beast is not real, it actually represents the children 's fears about themselves. The boys end up letting out the beast, which is the savagery hiding within them.
This shows how humans can easily be swept up into the subversive and hateful mindset of others when the support of an idea of any nature is so loud, it is difficult to think clearly. Evil reigns triumphant because of the weak will of man that allows the evils of others to take root inside of him. The idea of the herd mentality is also blatant in the Lord of the Flies, the characters are swept up in each others actions. It allows for them to feel as if they have done no evil because it was committed as group, notably would be the murder of Simon:
William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies does not simply describe the life of a group of children stranded on an island, but rather it is a representation of the qualities of human nature. As the novel progresses, the children grow deeper into savagery, performing actions that would be often criticised in society. The absence of law and order devolves even those that attempt to recreate it, like Ralph and Piggy. In this novel, Golding uses children to answer the question whether or not humans are born inanimately good or truly evil. Golding answers this question by symbolising the main characters and their descent into savagery.