Lord+of+the+Flies+Essay

In the book “// __Lord Of The Flies__ //”, and the movie “Mean Girls”, there were very similar themes. They both had scenes that showed goodness and humanity in people, and scenes that showed the ghastly and inhuman side of people. From what I saw portrayed in these productions, I think the theme is evil and malicious acts are inherent in each sex, but they just play out differently

These two works of art are very similar in the message they are giving to you. They both show the same inhumane side in all of us. The characters also show the same traits in each story. Such as jack and Regina, they both represent evil and insanity in each story. The stories both started off with everyone getting along but then everything got out of hand later in the stories. Both stories also had an antagonist and a protagonist. In both the works there were I kids, that were trying to be purposefully mean to each other.

These two stories are also different. The stories each use opposite sexes to portray the inhumane actions of the human kind. In each story they use different tactics to hurt the other person. For example in the “movie mean girls” they are more sneaky and humiliating to the other person. Opposed to the book “// __Lord Of The Flies__ //” how they just straight say it to their face and don’t care if anyone else knows they did it. Also in “// __Lord Of The Flies__ //” they killed people and took harm to the next level, opposed to “Mean Girls” where they just humiliated the other person to the point they wished they were dead.

In the two stories there were totally different concepts of evil, but they affected people on the same ways. In “Mean Girls” evil was resembled in the burn book, it was all the evil things anyone in the plastics said about everyone. Opposed to the book “// __Lord Of The Flies__ //” were evil was resembled as a pigs head on a stick. In the end they have the same concept. The plastics right crap about each other in the burn book and all don’t get along, as in “// __Lord Of The Flies__ //” they all want to stick Ralph’s head on a stick. They are the same because they both resemble the same evil in each book, which no one can get along unless they are under a strict democracy or government with rules.

So to sum it up the stories both show the same rule of thumb, that people with act uncivilized without government. Good and evil is inherent on all of us, we can’t escape our humanity we can only hope to cultivate the good and curb our evil tendencies. The tools we use are civilization, education, rules, guidelines, and conquests to counter act them. Human being needs to strive to be better than the sum of our tendencies.