Literally Kafkaesque

  In Lord of the Flies, William Golding has tried to portray mankind’s essential illness and has traced the emergence of evil. The group of boys inherited the island in state of innocence, they set up authority and order but later ignored the voice of authority and violated the rules. From humans, they became animals and then savages. They soon were liberated from the shame and consciousness. They tried to find beast everywhere, the air, the water, but in reality, just like Simon, one of the boys said, “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”   William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is about Evil, and it recounts a quest for order amidst the disorder that evil causes. Golding stated in his interview concerning the theme of the book, “The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature.” R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island being the first major influence, “Paradise Lost” was the second major influence in Golding’s work with the commo...

  Originally named "Prufrock Among the Women." , Eliot began writing “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” while being a Graduate student at Havard University during 1909-10. It was the first professionally published poem of the American-born British poet. Eliot called the poem a "love song" in reference to Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Love Song of Har Dyal", first published in Kipling's collection “Plain Tales from the Hills”(1888). The original title does tell us that Eliot thinks Prufrock’s relation to the fairer sex is at the center of this poem. The title is actually the only place where Prufrock’s name is mentioned, since in the poem he talks about himself in the first person. However, the title is completely ironic. The opening of the poem reveals the irony of title, especially the “Love Song” part. Here Prufrock says,   “ Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a ...