Analysis

The Lord of the Flies

laughed. Presently they were all jabbing at Robert who made mock rushes. Jack shouted. “Make a ring!” The circle moved in and round. Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain. “Ow! Stop it! You’re hurting!” The butt end of a spear fell on his back as he blundered among them. “Hold him!” They got his arms and legs. Ralph, carried away by a sudden thick excitement, grabbed Eric’s spear and jabbed at Robert with it. “Kill him! Kill him!” All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife. Behind him was Roger, ﬁghting to get close. The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt. “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” Ralph too was ﬁghting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable ﬂesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering. Jack’s arm came down; the heaving circle cheered and made pig-dying noises. Then they lay quiet, panting, listening to Robert’s frightened snivels. He wiped his face with a dirty arm, and made an effort to re- trieve his status. “Oh, my bum!” He rubbed his rump ruefully. Jack rolled over. “That was a good game.” “Just a game,” said Ralph uneasily. “I got jolly badly hurt at rugger once.”"
 * "Robert snarled at him. Ralph entered into the play and everybody
 * Allegory is used during this passage to explain that some people don’t fit in so they are miss treated and to some it is just a game like in this excerpt. This relates to society because not everybody fits in and they aren’t kill but they are treated very bad and will suffer from this experience. Some people will get over it but other will be traumatized for the rest of their lives and will feel like they will never fit into society so they will become outcasts.

 Allegory of the Cave
 * "At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision."
 * The allegory used in this story is to explain that the people were chained down and that social were the ones that made this happen by the people being very critical about others. So some people didn’t want to see other things that are unfamiliar but only things that they were used to because they were afraid that they wouldn’t fit in. The people are afraid to be criticized and so this is why they stick to things are are familiar to them. The people in the cave didn't want to leave because they were afraid what was outside of hte cave.

The Masque and the Red Death
 * "“Who dares?” he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him—“who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? Seize him and unmask him—that we may know whom we have to hang at sunrise, from the battlements!” It was in the eastern or blue chamber in which stood the Prince Prospero as he uttered these words. They rang throughout the seven rooms loudly and clearly—for the prince was a bold and robust man, and the music had become hushed at the waving of his hand."
 * The allegory here is that throughout the poem the prince is trying to escape death and he goes through many things trying to flee. Every room was a different color and had a different vibe. So throughout the poem you were able to feel what he was feeling and what he was going through by the descriptions of the rooms and the details put in the poem.