Lord of the Flies Essay Introduction PDF
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This document introduces an essay on William Golding's *Lord of the Flies*. It outlines the key themes of the novel, including the post-war patriarchal world, exposing and criticizing a world devoid of compassion and nurturing. It's an essay plan, focusing on the ideas to be explored, such as decline in religious affiliation and reaction to world wars.
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**Introduction:** 1. Your first sentence needs to be a statement bringing together the message or central idea of the book and must mention the author and name of the book. 2. This sentence mentions the ideas in the film this essay will discuss. In a text and context essay you need t...
**Introduction:** 1. Your first sentence needs to be a statement bringing together the message or central idea of the book and must mention the author and name of the book. 2. This sentence mentions the ideas in the film this essay will discuss. In a text and context essay you need to note ideas about the specific context 3. A clear sentence, linking directly to the question, focusing on the most important words in the question. *Texts reference the beauty and terror of their time* *Discuss how this is true of the text you have studied.* In the novel[, Lord of the Flies] written by William Golding, he reflects on a post war patriarchal world, exposing and criticising a world devoid of compassion and nurturing of fellow man. Set on a deserted island, as school boys are marooned, this microcosm displays the horror of a world of chaos where the civility of laws and nurturing is abandoned. In the beauty of the natural world Golding exposes the brutality of man in a rising secular world amidst the tensions of the Cold war. You will need 3 paragraphs which may look at any of the following ideas: - Decline in religious affiliation - A reaction to world wars - Postcolonialism - A reaction or criticism of romanticised and idealised adventure novels - A psychoanalytical view of the human condition
