The Greatest Threat To Civilisation In Lord Of The Flies Essay

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the 2018 Festival of Dangerous Ideas. I am here today to examine whether the greatest threat to civilisation is humanity itself? I strongly believe that, humanity is most definitely the greatest threat to civilisation. Lord of the Flies is the story about a group of English school boys on a deserted island who start with a democratic society, eventually turn on each other and then finally descend to tribalism and tyranny. Sound familiar? This story has many parallels with our real world both historically and currently in 2018 with leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Kim Jon Un, who have proven that mankind itself is the principal threat to our civilisation because of humanity’s inner evil and greed for world domination and power. I will today convince you how the main threats to civilisation and …show more content…

The play demonstrates how in a situation of survival, it’s not external forces the survivors need to worry about, the biggest threat is the person sitting right next to them. In the play the boys are most afraid of the beast in the jungle and it is Simon who uncovers that the beast is not real and that it is actually the evil that exists within them. He says in Act # scene # .... [find a quote] Simon represents all kindness, decency and all that is good in the boys. When Simon is murdered, it is a turning point as all civilisation is destroyed and their world has degenerated to complete savagery. Rules, law and order as they knew it is gone. Ralph and Piggy realise that they need to be afraid as it is now Jack’s tribe that has become the evil beast. It is humanity and the underlying evil within man that has destroyed

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