Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

The Catastrophe Of Savagery Savagery, what does it mean? To be savage it means to be fierce,cruel,primitive or uncivilized. Humanity without rules can truly bring out anyone's inner savagery. Without rules, how would civilization know the difference between right and amiss. People would be free to do as they please without consequences and with no corollary. Golding's acclaimed novel, Lord Of The Flies, where a young group of innocent boys find themselves left alone on an island with no parental guardian .The book portrays a group of boys that are alone and struggle to thrive without civilization. Without structure, the characters test their limits and realize they don't have any consequences for doing wrong. They turn on some of

On the island there was an entity known as the beast. The beast was first spoken about when the Mulberry boy brought it up and frightened the other boys, making them panicked and scared about the beast that would come for them . The mulberry boy told the others about the monstrosity they made a huge signal fire. The mulberry boy gets captured in the blaze and killed when no one could find him they presumed that the monster had gotten him. One of the major events of savagery takes place when Simon is accidentally assassinated by the others believing he was the beast!!! “the sticks fell in 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 a hill” (Golding 153). After the boy's murdered the sow, they are hyped to kill the beast...They are all on the beach running around a fire when Simon comes out of the woods. The other boys instantly assume that he’s the fear of the beast makes them anxious, which in turn makes them aggressive and savage. so they react as fast as they possibly could viciously murdering Simon in the blink of an eye. Due to their inner savagery and lose of humanity, nobody cares to look back to see the misconception they have just made, “Softly surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea"(Golding 154). Simon has been just been brutally slaughtered by the boys he was living on the island with trying to thrive in the atrocious island. Continued acts of savagery can be seen in all of the boys as they are all chanting around the fire getting ready to kill the beast at any given moment but when Simon come out of nowhere one of the boys see him and expeditious charge at him with the rest of the boys behind him