Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

Without laws humans could commit countless of unforgivable crimes. The hierarchy of courts trying to decide the vile, vigorous mistakes humans has created. What would happen if there were no laws? The novel “The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding published in 1945, after World War II. Through the novel, it expresses Golding’s views on human nature and shows how evil and barbaric humans are. It starts off with a group of English boys who has been washed up on an isolated island. At first they celebrate their freedom without adults and created their own rules. However, as time passes on the island their order collapse and it becomes a world of terror and fear. “The Lord of the Flies” conveys civilisation through Ralph and savagery through

Ralph represents leadership and civilization. Unlike the other kids, Ralph is more mature and takes surviving seriously. “There aren’t any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves. And another thing, we can’t have everybody talking at once. We’ll have to have ’hands up’ like at school.” (Pg. 42) this shows that Ralph creates rules in order to maintain order and civilization. He is a natural leader, who puts a hefty-weight of pressure on how he’s going to get people to survive. He restricts himself not to goof around with the others, very insistent to keep the signal fire in order to be saved, and prohibit the boys from peeing in places where they use as a food resource. “They were dirty… and… did not mind” (pg. 110) because of the amount of filthiness that was presented by the boys, Ralph became immune to it and finds it very normal. Almost at the end of the novel, tragedy struck and Piggy was killed leaving Ralph with “no one left” (pg. 188) because Jack’s animalistic tribe murdered the only friend Ralph had left; he would have had Sam n’ Eric but they were abducted too. Alone and afraid, Ralph ran for his life when Jack’s tribe hunted for him, but with a glimmer of hope a naval officer came to his

In the novel " The Lord of the Flies" Simon he is very different from the others due to the fact that he faints countless of times." He hid his face." ( Pg 146) shows that he is a shy person, however on the island he displays concern for the boys. He helped the littlun pick fruits from tree branches that were too high for them, he also helps retrieve piggy's glasses when Jack took them off piggy. As he talked to the pig's head ( the lord of the flies) while hallucinating, " What are you doing out here alone, aren't you afraid of me." (Pg 143) However rather than saying yes, he shook his head. "May be there is a beast... May be its only us" (Pg 89) Simon is also very smart, but because he is shy no one understood him. " You knew, didn't you I'm part of you." this shows that he knows there is no beast on the island rather in themselves. When Simon rushed to tell the others that there were no beast, but a soldier on a parachute, he was mistaken for the beast and was killed by