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Essay Archive - Lord of the Flies: Idea of God
Lord of the Flies: Idea of God
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
anima....
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