Utopian Society In Lord Of The Flies

Imagine a world where there are no crimes at all, where there are no personal possessions, and where religions are practiced everywhere - the “perfect” Utopian society, essentially. The general purpose of this society was so that “Man could live with his fellow Man and find personal fulfillment without doing harm to others.” It’s almost a given that this Utopian concept has been deemed as mankind’s ideal world, thus it having been sought after so fervently. With that so, it’s almost a foreign idea that perhaps, the concept of a Utopian society given could prove not to be as perfect or ideal as thought - perhaps, it could be self-destructive in itself, a non-permanent society. Yet, the question remains: how exactly is that possible? Take for

In Lord of the Flies, Jack had “ruled” his tribe with fear, intimidation, and most importantly, violence - traits that could possibly signify his already corrupt nature. This was shown especially when the painted group had moved around Samneric nervously and unhandily, prompting Jack (the chief) to yell,“Tie [Samneric] up!” After that command was given, the painted group - or, the boys - confidently start to hold Samneric hostage. It was, however, obvious that they were only operating on Jack’s orders, for the fear that he could just as easily punish them prevented them from disobeying. His corrupt nature had also shone through when he had started to scream barbarically, “See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore!” once a boulder had crushed Piggy. Throughout the whole book, too, the concept of a “Beast” was prevalent. At first, it was believed by the boys that the Beast had only a physical manifestation - yet, as the story had progressed, it was revealed that the Beast was not something tangible, but instead, something within all of them - the root of all human savagery and

After witnessing the too realistic veldt, the parents begin to consider locking the nursery up in fear. Contrarily enough, however, the children had not feared the nursery like their parents had; instead, they had viewed the nursery as their “second parents.” A plausible enough concept, considering that the children had spent more time with it than with their actual parents. Again, this development, as could be inferred from the quote, “You know how difficult Peter is about [the nursery] … And Wendy too. They live for the nursery”, explained the children’s driving need to spend time in the nursery - their “perfect” world. Eventually, the parents had come to a final consensus to shut down the nursery and live a “sort of a carefree one-for-all existence” after realizing how truly reliant they all were on the technology. After the children had learned that the nursery would be soon shut down (almost, to them, like hearing that their “parents” would be abandoning them), they had purposely started to deceive their parents with a facade of childish temperament, such