Saturn Devouring His Son Analysis

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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

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