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Term Paper Title	Lord Of The Flies Thematic Essay
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Lord of the Flies thematic essay

     As mankind has progressed throughout history, his idea of god has changed with his domination of nature and nature's elements.  When man made the transition from a Paleolithic to a Neolithic lifestyle, his mastery of nature attained a higher level because of the bow and arrow.  With the bow and arrow, man could now control animals, because the bow became an extremely efficient way of dealing with animals before they could come close enough to kill.  The gods of the Paleolithic tribesmen, and even gods of the first primitive civilizations were animals.  As mankind mastered the animals, however, his idea of god changed to become people, as is showed in the Greek and Roman myths.  These gods, however, lived on earth and were accustomed to the same pleasures and desires and led the same lifestyle as the Greeks and Romans.
First proposed by the Hebrew prophet Isaiah, god became a higher being, as mankind had mastered something within themselves to have a need for a higher god.  This first god was still immoral and like the humans, except that he could live forever and did not dwell on the same surface as the humans, but god still lived in heaven, which was thought of as a tangible place in the sky, and still was thought to be in the shape of a man.
This idea was challenged by another Hebrew prophet, Jeremiah.  He was the first to convey the message that god was holy, apart from the world, and did not meddle in mortals lives.  This change was brought about by the change in morality by the monotheistic Hebrews.  With the ascension of David's son Soloman to the throne, the Hebrews became a very moral people.  After the Hebrews had mastered temptation and sin, their god could not be an immoral being.  The change in that god did not care about his people, and was above them was brought about because the Assyrians destroyed Israel.  The natural reaction of the people was that their god had abandoned them.
Jeremiah was challenged by a third prophet, Jesus of Nazareth (Christ) .  He taught the people to master the part of them that would think god to proud to help them.  After overcoming their pride (mastering it) that was brought on by losing Jerusalem to the Romans, the Hebrews saw their God no longer as a proud man, but as a humble loving god.  In The Lord of the Flies, the change of their god, from animal to superhuman being, is reflected by their mastery of nature and natures elements, and mankind can never be equal or above god.

In the beginning, the boys' god is in the form of a snake. This is because the boys' have not yet mastered animals.
"He wants to know what you are to do about the snake-t...

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