Isolation in "Lord of the Flies" and "Heart of Darkness"
Date Submitted: 09/16/2004 21:57:24
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (512 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (512 words)
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novels. Throughout Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness the importance of restraint
is greatly stressed. This being the restraint to remain human and maintain sanity. In Heart
of Darkness, Marlow was able to remain his restriant despite how difficult it was for him.
He was always surrounded by cannibals and constant chaos. On the other hand, Kurtz
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…importance of restraint in dealing with one's humanity. These compelling
novels leave the reader with two possible questions. Would I be able to cope with the
intense isolation? And, do I have the necessary restriant to maintain the humanity which
so many people take for granted? finally, the reader would be left with a better
understanding of the darkness, which Golding and Conrad believed, each and every one of
us possess somewhere, deep down inside.
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