Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

WIthin Lord of the Flies by William Golding, all of the boys begin to descend into savagery differently. Jack is one of the first in the group of boys to become savage, after him, his hunters follow, and eventually eve. The first person to become a savage is jack. During one of Jack’s hunts he is walking on a pig trail as he stands up he hears something move on the trail “He swung back his right arm and hurled the spear with all his strength” (Golding 68). Jack has not had much time to practice his spear throwing skills, but he is able to though it very naturally as though he had been doing for survival for his entire life. Later, when Jack start to make a mask for himself, and when he finishes Samneric look at him appalled, and “[Jack] began

One way this id displayed is through the many chanting of “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in” (Golding) throughout the story. the hunters are the ones to start this chant, it alludes to them being desensitised to the violence of the island. Next during one of their rituals fake fights the boys get out of hand and “All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife. Behind him was Roger, fighting to get close. The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt.” (Golding 114). Next when the hunters kill the sow jack gets his hand covered in pig blood and “He giggled and flecked them while the boys laughed at his reeking palms. Then Jack grabbed Maurice and rubbed the stuff over his cheeks”. The hunters think that playing with the blood of an animal they’ve killed is fun when in reality most people would be mortified by the

one example is the phrase repeated many times in the story “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in” (Golding). The hunters may start this but eventually it spreads to the entire group of boys showing that they all are thinking that the killing of an animal is just fun and games. Next during the midnight chant of the boys simon comes out of the woods, but the boys mistake him as the beast and “The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (Golding 152-153). All of the boys participate within the killing of Simon all because they mistook for the beast and could not focus of his screams. Later ralph is left alone with Piggy and very few other boys and jack “trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement. He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses” (Golding 168). All of the other boys leave ralph and the rest of the boys who have not become savages,