Innocence In Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Innocents is an important part of our society today, people value it, and yet children are losing it earlier and earlier as years pass. When you’re born, you know nothing of how the world works, society norms, or social norms. You know no cruelty, and this lack of seeing is innocence. The old saying, "ignorance is bliss," comes to mind. However, once that ignorance (or innocence) is gone, it can’t be gained back. This is why it is sought after and valued. In the Lord Of The Flies by William Golding we see a group of young, well mannered, English boys thrust into a very adult situation. An airplane carrying the group of younglings crashes onto an uninhabited island. They have no one except themselves to depend on, so they have to take charge of the situation - or die. The boy’s find a leader in Ralph, a strong minded boy that is also kind. However, as the story progresses,

This leads the boys down a dark path. We see these children kill both animals as well as each other, steal and basically become savages. Along the way they lose their innocence. They lose this through many key plot points; through the development of a religion, the idols they worship, and symbolic situations.

Faith is something that is very prominent in today’s society - it seems that everyone believes in something and in The Lord Of The Flies so do the boys. They develop a type of “religion” that starts when one of the boy’s meets a “monster” in a cave. This leads to Jack seeing a way that he can come into power, and take the civilization from Ralph. He uses the monster to scare the other boys into joining him as the group splits into two tribes - Ralph's side, and Jacks. The boys sacrifice animals to the allusive monster to keep it appeased. "This head is for the beast,