A Fragile Civilization in The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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"The lord of the flies" is a novel by William Golding author published in 1954 that shows fragility of civilization. It describes the regressive course of children themselves.
After a plane crash, a group of children found alone without adults on a deserted island. Quickly the group organized in a democratic pattern: they choose by-election a leader, Ralph, and decide the role of each. Meetings organized, privileged moments lyrics. Various incidents and life which looks tougher as they thought initially will gradually switch the group into savagery and tyranny, symbolized by another character lighthouse, Jack. The wild pig hunt reveals youth from the primitive impulses. And the fire, show their presence from the sea, goes one day because its guards have gone hunting and young people spend next to an opportunity to be saved. After discovery of a kind of Monster (in reality a paratrooper failed) sows terror on the island, terror fuelled by Jack. Stitches in time, the violence moved and perpetuation of human crimes. A real Manhunt begins when a naval officer appears on the beach, as a "deus ex machine".
The analysis of the novel reveals that the plot revolves around major sociological philosophical themes: authority, submission, freedom and violence. It also shows us of the stereotyped characters and erects any of its protagonists as heroes. Each character contributes to the progress of the plot which revolves around the Organization of the castaways. Faced with the imperative of survival, four children stand out. Two of them are trying to impose their vision of things to the other castaways: Ralph and Jack.
First comes the democratic organization, proposed by Ralph, the oldest of the group. It is necessary at the beginning of the...

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...ws imperfection of man, evil being that one of its components and its nature in its entirety. So it seems difficult to make the parallel with adults, experience, references, the intelligence and the reason is not successful in these young children. Everything seen from the inside of child consciousness, where emotions come without always finding the words. There is no in this novel to look outside, different from that which these children have about themselves and their surroundings. As they doesn't have opportunity to express what they feel is also description of nature in which they bathe which takes care of the entire emotional weight. The child, like the primitive, forges strange reports of complicity with all that does not speak. As soon as he stops and listens to live the jungle, his perceptions are of incredible intensity, sometimes touching the hallucination.

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