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…characters I have chosen to contrast and compare is presented in the novel as the most influential representative of each of the two sides. Jack, the chief of the hunters, representing the hidden human passion and almost animal cruelty, and Ralph, with Piggy…

…treated like beasts of burden. Field slaves were given cheap clothing, and not much of it. Also, food was tasteless and not very nourishing (Leckie 16). Another cruelty of slavery was that slaves had no liberties. Their lot in clothing, food, and housing…

…        In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Jack Merridew, chief of the hunters, represents the hidden human passion and animal cruelty. The name Jack comes from Hebrew and means 'one who supplants,' one who takes over by force. This is how Jack gains…

…" and "shattering their great glass panes into a million of fragments". He gives an accurate description of the event, affected greatly with his feelings and emotions for Catherine and hatred against the Lintons. We feel the cruelty and injustice of his situation through…

…Scene 5 her ambition drives her to unite with evil. She calls on malevolent spirits to take away her gentle traits and replace them with strength and cruelty in order to incite murder "Fill me from the crown to the toe-top full of direst cruelty! Make thick…

…a decided propensity for bullying.         He derived no inconsiderable pressure from the exercise of petty cruelty and         consequently was a coward. Halfway through the book, Bumble changes. When         he marries Mrs. Corney, he…

…. The cruelty with which Charlie is treated is all the more painful because he is the one who tells the readers about it and they suffer with him. In his childhood, his high-strung mother slaves over his education, determined to make him "normal," even by force. His…

…. William Golding, the author of the novel, expresses his opinion on savagery, an act of cruelty or violence, in this book. He makes it quite clear that savagery is an essential character of man and that it exists in all of all, but civilization keeps it under…

…, not to mention the droughts. There animosity towards the Gods was the basis of their cruelty. Through the Enuma Elish, the Mesopotamian creation Kircher 3 account, we see that humans are slaves to the Gods, in every regard. Just like the Sumerians, the Egyptians were…

…became physically and mentally worn down. Kay compares this kind of work to an animal. He says, “Having been subjected to the prolonged labour of an animal-his physical energy wasted-his mind in supine inaction-the artizan has neither moral dignity nor…