Blindness In Lord Of The Flies Essay

When given freedom from adult supervision, kids tend to decide their own rules no matter what others say. The young adult fiction novel Lord of the flies by William Golding is about a group of British schoolboys that are stuck on an uninhabited island. After getting in a plane crash and remaining the only survivors, they have to work together and create their own system of rules to remain alive. With the use of characterization, the author, William Golding, succeeds in showing readers how seeing things from one perspective blinds individuals from reality as realized with Jack’s belief of always being right as well as being the rightful leader and Ralph only wanting to pay attention to the essentials.

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They’re going to do you.’ ‘They’re going to hunt you tomorrow.’” (Golding 88), it is clear that Jack’s wanting of power and belief of being the deservent chief stops him from realizing the negative effects he puts on the boys. To him, power comes before everything; pitying the weak is no show of a real deserving chief. However, it is noticeable that even when he does make exceptions to listen to others, he finds a way to still feel some overpowering. As seen when see when the boar runs away, “He held out his arm. ‘Look.’ He turned his left forearm for them all to see. On the outside was a rip; not much, but bloody. ‘He did that with his tusks. I couldn’t get my spear down in time.’ Attention focused on Jack. ‘That’s a wound,’ said Simon, ‘and you ought to suck it. Like Berengaria.’ Jack sucked.” (114). When this situation happened, it is obvious that even though Jack does not like to listen and follow other people’s rules, when it comes to a matter of saving his own life, he will listen. This showing, when someone