The human brain. Such a creative and wonderful part of the human body… but could it be responsible for the death of two boys? Yes it could. The Lord of The Flies is a realistic fiction novel, written by William Golding, about a group of young school boys that are stuck on a island untouched by mankind. There are three main characters of the book: Jack, Ralph, and Piggy. Jack is where the immorality on the island originates from, and it spreads to the other boys. Jack is very reckless and careless in his decisions. Ralph was the leader of the island, until Jack took control of the tribe and turned all of them into savages. Ralph was an image for the boys to follow but spoke Piggy’s words. Piggy is the only voice of reason as well as the only …show more content…
Peer pressure is defined as “a feeling that one must do the same things as other people of one's age” (Merrian Webster). Again, to quote Mascarelli’s The Teenage Brain, “Adolescents are particularly susceptible and responsive to influence by friends…”(Mascarelli 3). The children in the book all fall into the peer pressure that Jack and his tribe use against the other boys. A good example of this is when all the boys are dancing around the fire in somewhat of a barbaric ritual, and Ralph and Piggy join in with them, “Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society,” (Golding 152). Both of these boys knew that what they were doing was very wrong, because they end up killing another boy named Simon. The only reason that these two boys joined in on this disgusting, savage activity was because the other boys were doing it. It is the equivalent to the teens in high school smoking weed with the other kids, even though they know it is wrong. Peer pressure causes kids to act like how they normally would due to their friends influence. It can be inferred from Mascarelli’s article that peer pressure has an effect on the adolescent brain, and that is the cause of irrational behavior. Clearly, biological factors are to blame for the kids’ reckless …show more content…
Jack Merridew is by far the most powerful individual on the island. He influences the boys to do things by yelling at them throughout the book. Just as it is stated in The Perils of Obedience by Kendra Cherry, “The physical presence of an authority figure dramatically increased compliance,” (Cherry 2). Jack is the main authority figure that has a lot of power of the kids because of his appeal to what they want and to the way he runs things. He runs his tribe like a dictatorship over the rest of the boys, but because they do what they want to do they comply with what he says, even though it is not the right thing. It can be seen that the boys comply with a higher power and become
Katherine Paterson once said, “To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” William Golding, who is a Nobel Prize winner for literature, writes Lord of the Flies, originally published in 1954. Golding’s novel is about a group of boys who crash land on an island. All of the adults are dead and they are abandoned on an island. The boys try to set rules and create a fire in efforts of being rescued. The group of boys chooses Ralph to be their leader. This choosing makes a literary character named Jack, who doesn’t show his anger until half way through the plot. The novel shows the nature of humans and how fear can control them. The novel also shows the difference between good and evil. Golding experienced this when he was in World War II. There were many times fear controlled the boys in the island in Lord of the Flies.
English author William Gerald Golding wrote Lord of the flies as his first novel in 1954. Golding would later become famous as a novelist, playwright, and poet, yet before Lord of the flies publishers had rejected his works many times. Fortunately for Golding and future readers, his new editor Charles Monteith helped him to make some changes to the text and publish the book in September 1954 as Lord of the Flies (“William Golding” par.7). This book became hugely successful, and in 1983 Golding was awarded for it a Nobel Prize in Literature ("William Golding - Prize Presentation" par.1).
' I believe that man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature '.
In viewing the aspects of the island society, the author William Golding's Lord of the Flies as a symbolic microcosm of society. He chooses to set the children alone in an unsupervised world, leaving them to learn ' the ways of the world' in a natural setting first hand. Many different perspectives can also be considered. Golding's island of marooned youngsters becomes a microcosm. The island represents the individual human and the various characters represent the elements of the human psyche.
The author, William Golding uses the main characters of Ralph, Jack, and Simon in The Lord of the Flies to portray how their desire for leadership, combined with lack of compromise leads to the fall of their society. This desire for leadership and compromise led to the fall of their society just like multiple countries during times of wars.
The classic novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an exciting adventure deep into the nether regions of the mind. The part of the brain that is suppressed by the mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, good and evil.
William Golding's Lord of the Flies "In 'Lord of the flies' Golding is clearly seeking to explore
Humans are inherently evil in nature and without law will unknowingly let this vile aspect of their own person be revealed. The depravity of actions in humans is expressed in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, by a group of English boys that are stranded on an island, and disconnected from society. The fear from violation of laws that holds people to their morals and rationality in their society vanishes, and a growth of savagery is present in all the boys. Savagery, an element innate to humanity, can only be repressed by the laws of society; the lack of regulation removes all inhibition, and therefore, exposes the beast representing evil from within.
The Lord of the Flies - Savagery. William Golding’s novel ‘The Lord of The Flies’ presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island, left to try and retain a civilised society. In this novel, Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes. At the opening of the novel, Ralph and Jack get on extremely well.
Savagery is the condition of being primitive, uncivilized or the quality of being fierce or cruel (Google). It is something that comes easy to everyone at certain times in our life. People will learn it is harder to be good than bad. Being bad comes natural to everyone; people like the thrill of taking a chance. People are trained to be civil and polite from the time one grows up and it is not that hard because of the society everyone lives in. What would happen if the people’s democracy fell and everybody is left with nothing? How would the citizens react? Would they act like they were trained to do ever since they were born, or would they disregard all of it and do as they please because there is no definite authority figure to tell them how to live. In William Golding's, The Lord of the Flies, he brilliantly tells a story of life and death and everything in between. His use of symbolism with the conch, beast, and lord of the flies is phenomenal. It is a story that makes you think. Every person, when faced with reality, may act civil now, but in a survival situation, human nature takes over in the end.
By having no sort of society on the island, the little ones are dependent and look to the older ones for support and guidelines. While the older ones do try to give moral support it may not be the best type though. Having said that, most of the boys cannot distinguish what is right from wrong as they all ‘“[made] a ring” (125) and attempted to hurt Robert. Many of the boys think it is okay to physically hurt people since there are no regulations to stop them from doing this. Although, in all circumstances it is a cruel thing to hurt people, especially since they are trying to live on the island peacefully. At the same time, by having more than one becoming immoral can influence others to follow along. Jack, in particular, tends to show a negative impact towards the boys. Jack influences them to do what he wants which is to ‘“ tie them up”’(198), referring to Ralph and Piggy. Without a doubt the little ones follow what Jack says since he is showing leadership. However, the little ones are now captivated to this certain behavior as no rules are being enforced to show what the consequences are if they do something
One of the greatest fathers of Psychology, Sigmund Freud once quoted, “Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them”. This remarkable quote introduced a basic analysis of the simple naturistic desire that exists in the minds of innocent children. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, one can easily recognize the three structures of the mind Sigmund Freud established in the study of Psychology: Superego, Ego, and the Id. Throughout the novel, the young, immature children are faced with numerous challenges and obstacles that forced them to react in ways that emphasized the categories their personalities and mindsets fall into. William Golding allows the three main characters Jack, Piggy, and Ralph
In William Golding 's Lord Of The Flies numerous themes are presented to give us readers something to think about. Despite the fact that the group of boys stranded on the island got saved at the end of the novel, Golding 's main theme is that there is no hope for mankind, and that evil is an inborn trait of mankind. We constantly see this theme throughout the novel when the boys, split into two different tribes, participate in the death of Simon, and lastly we see this when Roger deliberately kills Piggy.
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