Savagery Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Savagery is common in the book titled “Lord of the Flies”, written by William Golding. The Lore of the story is that British schoolboys are stranded on a deserted island. In an attempt on recreating their civilization they make Ralph the leader and by his side Piggy his assistant/counselor. However Jack wants to become a leader as well, so he persuades the other members into joining in his little group making them lose their reason of becoming a civilized citizen into ruthless savages. Golding uses diction such as “darkness“ and “brutality“ as well as imagery to describe specifics scene that supports the statement of the loses of their innocence as human beings. Golding associates that the instinct of savagery is far more primal as well as crucial to the human psyche than the instinct of civilization.

After the boys discovered that their was a something on the mountains, A peculiar scene stood out the most which was Simon’s reaction about the strange being: “A beast with claws that scratched, that left no tracks yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric.’ However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.” ( Golding 103 ) After analysing the quote it brings a dark realization in simon’s perspective because he now knows that everyone around one are not only losing their psyche, but are losing their human ways and are resorting in violence rather than resolving the problems in the most humane way as possible. However