Political_Film_And_Fiction

Political Film And Fiction Henry David Thoreau was a writer and philosopher in the 1800’s. Thoreau believed that people should be careful of setting their goals of excess too high. He believed that people should try and rise above the animalistic impulse they had and pursue a lifestyle that was pure and not materialistic. Thomas Hobbes, a writer in the mid 1600’s on the other hand thought that people were inherently selfish and needed a strong coercive Government in order to keep them in line. Thoreau and Hobbes’ theories are shown in the works of Lord of the Flies, Roger and Me and The Godfather. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses little children, deserted on an island to show that humans need a strong central government in order to survive. When that strong central government dissolves the children resort to selfishness and animal instincts to survive. At first the boys are listening to Ralph and chores are getting done. He orders that teams of the children keep an eye on the bonfire and make sure it is always lit. This is their only chance at a rescue in Ralph’s mind. After awhile Jack decides he people, government, order, school, godfather, city, children, because, society, succeed, strong, out, given, arthur, william, job, flint, chance, live, just, high, enough, car, without, story, smart, news, money, make, life, doesn’t, baker, after, way, smith