The Danger of Blind Obedience to Authority in Golding's Lord of the Flies

This analytical essay explores the dangers of blind obedience to authority in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. It details three areas of the boys' behavior that demonstrate the importance of this theme in the novel.

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"Your analysis of this theme of the novel is perceptive and detailed. You have provided substantial evidence for your thesis. Your introduction and conclusion are also effective. Your thesis statement would benefit from rewording (The danger of blind obedience to authority.... by William Golding, through the obedience...) and does not need italicizing unless this is part of class instructions. Also, MLA uses literary present tense. Though you have mostly used present tense, you have mixed in past tense; the tenses should be consistently present. You have one very long section in your paper that I would advise dividing into paragraphs by subtopic. You have used quotations from the text effectively, but are lacking page numbers for the quotes (please check class instructions on page numbers). Finally, though your grammar and punctuation are quite strong, your paper has some instances of odd punctuation that might be a word processing glitch (periods in the middle of some sentences, the date oddly placed in your heading)."

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("The Danger of Blind Obedience to Authority in Golding's Lord of the Flies.")

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