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Honor In Lord Of The Flies And The Charge Of The Light Brigade

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In many stories, past, present, and future, the topic of honor is a common one. It is a topic that allows the reader to not only be immersed in a topic widely present in the real world, but it also serves as a medium to analyze the true nature of human pride. Two stories that feature honor are Lord of the Flies by author William Golding, and the poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Tennyson. Honor is an extremely important part in both of these stories and their narratives, despite some people being unable to see the significance. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is a poem devoted to the battle of the same name, a battle that pinned an extremely weaker force against strategically positioned stronger forces due to an error made by the commanding forces. This led to defeat, of course, but the brigade went down with a truly epic fight, causing the inspiration for this poem. Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys stranded on an island, deserted and left to their own devices. The pretense of everything being fine falls apart quickly, and the island falls into chaos. The boys fight each other, some end up dead, and help finally arrives in the midst of all the chaos. Something similar happened in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, where a girl’s honor is defiled by wrongful accusations, which almost leads to multiple peoples deaths.
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