Lord Of The Flies Vs The CrucibleEssay Preview: Lord Of The Flies Vs The CrucibleReport this essayArthur Millers play, The Crucible, is a great example on how literature seeks to communicate power. Within the play, Miller tries to express a message to the reader. The message he tries to get across is that fear can make people do ridiculous things. The people of Salem were so afraid of witches; anything that was out of the ordinary would be considered witchcraft. The people would accuse Mr. Jacobs, an old man that could barely walk, of climbing into a small girls window with a black man whispering in his ear. Giles Corey Wife would also be accused of witchcraft just because Giles said he was curious about the books she was reading. Arthur Miller creates total chaos in Salem to display a message to the general public that in times of crisis, people must remain calm and not jump to conclusions.
William Goldings Novel, Lord of the Flies, is a great display of what can happened to a society with no order. Golding creates a situation with boys between the ages of 6 and 12 stranded alone on an island. The boys cannot correctly choose a leader and also fail to create laws. They would split up into two separate groups due to their disagreements and the separation of the boys would severely hinder their attempts at being rescued from the island. The boys island soon becomes chaos, which would lead to the death of two boys and the ultimate destruction of the island. Golding wrote the novel to explain to the reader why our society today has a system of order and rules. Without the rules and structure of our society, our country would spiral out of control into the pits of genocide and poverty.
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In our society we have a system of order and rules, but in this society, “rule” implies that we follow what is taught. Thus, a boy with an 11 IQ would be considered to be “weak” or “intelligent” in our society. The result would be a society with extreme racism, sexism, sexism, sexism. It would lead to chaos, poverty and all sorts of other things in the lives of the young people and to the death of the boys and their people. Golding’s novel is about a boy who wants to live his life a good life without taking a pay cut, but his life would be “chastised out” or at least, it would be, because of his lack of knowledge and ability to properly understand and deal with problems.
In the book that Golding describes in the opening chapter the relationship between the boys in the family and the society in general, it is clear to the reader that the situation is a result of our society’s very strict and rigid rules, such as the age of 12 and the requirement for a boy to attend school. But what does Golding really think about the problem with “rule” in a society where the rule book for a boy is “rule”?
“When two brothers die in the middle of the night, they go into a bedroom in order to get away. Their mother picks the boy up from the bed and lays him on top of him and sets him on a mattress. He begs a woman for help and goes downstairs to pick up his brother. On seeing her son awake, he finds himself at his own little funeral for the deaths of his mother and father. A few days later, on the way there, he hears the loud rumble of his car as the car was stopped and witnesses the crash. The young boy hears the crash, but then the woman pulls up next to him, gets dressed and cries, ‘We have to go and find you.’ Her name is Grace, and she has taken her four older brothers away to die after that. She has kept the dead boys from going out the door and into the streets to pick up the missing boys, but they’ve become the main problem. I’ve spoken to the dead brothers of the other men of our society who have died together. They have made excuses for what they did, or they’re ashamed of it, or they’ve gone through their whole lives trying to get their brothers back. The story here is told in the midst of a society where the boys die for no reason other than wanting to go home. The world is told that the dead boys can be recovered at the cost of a lot of misery and despair, but the world seems to think it is a good thing when the boy loses his brothers when the world doesn’t make things right. Golding and others believe that the reason why this is happening in our society is because society’s lack of regulation of how life works has made the rule book for boys so difficult to understand and control.” — Matthew Binder, “The Story of the Three Young Boys Who Have Killed for Love, Peace, and Peace,” New Statesman, Vol. 1