Lord Of The Flies Civilization Vs Civilization Analysis

Civilization. What does it mean? This is a question frequently proposed to the reader by William Golding in the book Lord Of the Flies which was written in 1954. The date of the publication does not matter in the long run, as it has had an impact through the years between 1954 and present day because the whole question on what makes people maintain a civilization. It’s not just that the book was so well written it's the fact that the main idea (civilization vs savagery) in the book is still present in society today, anything can happen to civilization to make it fall apart. The premise of Lord Of The Flies is the downfall of a group of British schoolboys who crashed landed in the middle of the pacific ocean because their plane was trying to get them away from world war two, it follows the group of boys through the slow deterioration of society and reason by the decisions the boys make. William Golding points at the theme civilization vs savagery in his book Lord of The Flies through symbolism, setting and characterization. First the pigs on the island are

In Lord of The Flies the mountain plays a large part of the deterioration into chaos by almost casting a shadow across the boys. In the text it states, “Piggy looked up miserably from the dawn-pale beach to the dark mountain.” (124) The mountain is quite like malevolent force bearing down on them to cause trouble, throughout the book the plot is centered around the mountain and what lives on it. Unlike the mountain the beach is a safe haven for all the boys because it keeps them away from the dark foliage covering almost the entire island, if the beach had an archetype it would be the protector and the mountain would be the antagonist. “He had reckoned, during the terrible night, on finding at least some of the tribe holding against the horrors of the island in the safest place.” (159) The “safest place” is the