The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar And William Goldings Lord Of...

In William Shakespeares The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,William Golding’s Lord of the Flies , and C. S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet all depict how mankind is born innocent and turned to evil. The stories show that this conversion to evil is caused by the influence of society or characters acting in the place of a society. The corruptibility of mankind is illuminated in these texts. The treachery, dishonesty, and murder as shown in the stories are not acts of innocence. In their books, the authors point out that mankind is not innately evil but instead born innocent and converted to evil by society. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a story about the death of the first Roman dictator, Julius Caesar. Caesars followers kill him in order†¦show more content†¦Golding uses the characters from Lord of the Flies just as Shakespeare did to prove that man is turned to evil. The narrative illustrates a story about a group of British boys who get stranded on a deserted island without any adults. This lack of a stable society and presence of leadership forces the boys to create their own, and this works for the boys for a while. The boys turn themselves into savages and begin to do evil deeds which continue to get worse until they are rescued. In the time between their rescue, the society the boys create devolves and turns them into savages although this was not always the case. When the boys first arrived, Ralph, the fair haired boy, attempts to lead them in a civilized manner, but through the influence of Jack, many of the boys become evil. Jack mutants against Ralph saying,  " Im not going to be a part of Ralph lot... Im going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too,† (Golding 127) in saying this Jack has made most of the boys on the island betray their leader which proves both Jack and his followers to be evil. The society the boys created glorifies violence and death:â€Å"... the boys†¦ found themselves eager to take part in this demented†¦ society.† (Golding 152). Jack, the leader of the violent tribe, often takes his followers on gruesome hunts on which they graphicly disembowel the kill, and after the hunt, Jack leads a chant while the other boys standShow MoreRelatedEssay Power and Corruption in Macbeth by William Shakespeare3354 Words   |  14 Pagesthe spread of socialism in Russia. In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, power tempts and corrupts Caesar’s closest friends to betray him and lose themselves in the process. Shakespeare was an English playwright during the renaissance period. Shakespeare wrote several plays throughout his lifetime in unrhymed iambic pentameter including one hundred and seventy four sonnets and thirty seven plays. One of Shakespeare’s most famous plays is Julius Caesar, which is a true story about a roman thatRead MoreANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagesother authors may begin at the end and then, having intrigued and captured us, work backward to the beginning and then forward again to the middle. In still other cases, the chronology of plot may shift backward and forward in time, as for example in William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, where the author deliberately sets aside the chronological ordering of events and their cause/effect relationship in order to establi sh an atmosphere of unreality, build suspense and mystery, and underscore Emily Grierson’s