A study of community, highlighted by characters who could be considered as standing outside of their community. Reference made to Eliot's 'Silas Marner' and Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'.

Title: A study of community, highlighted by characters who could be considered as standing outside of their community. Reference made to Eliot's 'Silas Marner' and Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'.
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A study of community, highlighted by characters who could be considered as standing outside of their community. Reference made to Eliot's 'Silas Marner' and Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'.

The subject of this essay is community and characters who are outside of their community, as highlighted in William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies' and George Eliot's 'Silas Marner'. William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies' is set around a group of young boys, with the eldest being twelve years old, who are stranded on an uninhabited island after their plane crashes. We are introduced to Ralph and the rest of the boys, the boys choose …showed first 75 words of 2196 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2196 total…and Samneric the twins have joined up with Jack. Piggy is killed and Samneric are forced to join with Jack, leaving Ralph all alone and the outsider on the island, being the only one, bar the littlun's (who don't get involved with the activities of the bigun's), who has not joined Jacks tribe. Unlike Piggy and Simon, Ralph doesn't die; this is because he is the 'hero' of the story and represents good and civilisation.

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