Analysis Of ' The Lord Of The Flies '

In Lord of the Flies by John Steinback a group of young boys are stranded on an island. To survive the boys decided to vote who should be their leader, Ralph or Jack. Piggy is a smart, fat boy who is not respected by the boys. Ralph is the face of leadership but not the best for the job compared to Piggy. Piggy is the brains behind Ralph who gives the essential idea to further progress the island.

What would happen if a group of British school boys were dropped on a deserted island where they have to choose ultimately faced choosingbetween good and evil? In Lord of the Flies, which was written by William Golding, the that exact situation happened. However, the good and evil would be the choice of being civil or savage. All the boys had a sense of civility when they came from England, but with the help of the character Jack, their civilities get forgotten. In the Lord of the Flies, the thirst for power is shown through Jack who corrupts the boys to savagery. The result of the boys’ cruel actions lead to the deaths of Simon and Piggy and the destruction

“In a 2005 survey about gay bullying statistics, teens reported that the number two reason they are bullied is because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender expression”, according to bullyingstatistics.org. It has also been shown that those who are bullied themselves often go on to bully others because it is all they know, or that bullying covers up their own shames. The character Jack Merridew in Lord of the Flies is not evil like many would argue, but rather is ashamed of the fact that he is gay and closeted. This is supported by the hunter’s casting off of religion and government, Jack’s inability to hunt unless in front of other boys, and the beast as a symbol.

“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed”(Rand). This was stated by Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand; the extract relates to the novel William Golding wrote called Lord of the Flies. Golding wrote about a group of schoolboys trapped on an island from a plane crash. The boys had to figure out how to survive without grownups. Trying to survive was difficult because they had to have common sense and order. They lose those traits throughout the book which resulted in selfishness and corrupt behaviors.

What went wrong in the Lord of the Flies? Some may say Jack and some may say Roger, but what are the real reasons for the downfall of the boys? They are, the loss of hope, the loss of order, and the passing of time.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

Children all fear the dark because of what it may contain as darkness the the manifestation of the unknown. Many people fear the unknown rather than embrace it because fearing the unknown provides them with a sense of control regardless of whether or not it is an illusion. This is shown in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, with Jack who uses the concept of the Beast to gain support from the littluns and eventually rises to power within the group of boys.

Humans develop in societies with rules, order and government, but humans are not perfect, they have many deficiencies so do the societies they live in. When a group of schoolboys land on a tropical island, Ralph takes on the role of leader by bringing all of the boys together and organizing them. He first explains “There aren’t any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves.”(p.33), this brings up the question if the boys will have prosperity or will they succumb to the evil on the island. At first the young boys start being successful and civilized, but chaos soon overruns them and evil starts to lurk over the island.The fictional story of the group of British schoolboys stranded on an island and the decisions they make, relates back

Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. It is about british schoolboys who are stranded on an island after their plane is shot down. They are on the island with no adult supervision. Their group is civilized but turns to savagery. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the characters of Ralph, Jack, and Roger to symbolize that there are violence, evil, savagery, and good that exist in every society.

Although many things are stated outright in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the book is rich with symbolism and subtext. The story starts with British school boys being stranded on an island after escaping a threat of nuclear war. The boys elect fair-haired Ralph as their leader, but Jack, a fiery choirmaster of some of the boys, is jealous and the story quickly goes downhill from there, leading to aggression, mayhem, and murder. Throughout the novel, there is also a mysterious and imaginary beast that haunts the minds of the younger boys. Lord of the Flies has many details, many of which are symbols or have implied meaning. One of the most important examples of subtext is Simon, the strange, ethereal boy who aligns himself with

Things work out well for Ralph at first. He takes charge over the boys and tells them what they need to accomplish for rescue and survival. The ways of the organized and civil society he learned back home in Britain show through in the method he uses in explaining the tasks the boys needed to complete. He approaches things from an organized, logical, and practical manner and thinks first about being rescued. Immediately after being elected leader and satisfying Jack, another prominent character in the novel, by allowing him to choose the task of his choir boys, Ralph says, “If this isn’t an island we might be rescued straight away. So we’ve got to decide if this is an island” (23). As further proof of his practicality, upon discovering the fact that no one inhabits the island, Ralph explains that the boys need to build a signal fire to attract any passing ships.

Ralph is a good leader but most of the boys follow Jacks lead because of a few reasonings and one of them being that he can hunt and he provided them with food. Even though it was uncooked meat at least it was protein that needed. At this point in the book William Golding has been foreshadowing how the boys split into two “tribes”. One of them being Ralph and the other of course being Jack. Ralph is the nice and kind leader who wants to get off the island. Jack is the type of leader who rules with fear and power. His power as being able to provide meat for his people.

William Golding’s survivalist, dystopian novel, Lord of the Flies, reveals the civilizing influence of good order and discipline in human society, and the consequences of the absence of these conditions. Throughout the work, Golding’s employment of the conch shell as a symbol illustrates the importance of authority, discipline, and civility in the young boys’ lives on the island.

The conch represents rules, order, and power. It governs the meetings and gives power to whoever holds it. Because Ralph was the one who blew the shell, he was elected chief. It represents a democratic system, as opposed to Jack’s dictatorship. When they arrive on the island, the conch is regarded as one of the most important items. Even Jack respects it. Even when he is humiliated, he “laid the conch with great care in the grass at his feet” (Golding 113). However, as the story progresses, the shell slowly begins to lose influence on the boys. Ultimately, the shell is destroyed and shattered into pieces. The destruction of

Amelia patted him on the shoulder “You’re aces kid and you know it. Tell them!” It seemed to be too much encouragement because the blush ran higher and he went quiet. Cassandra gave Edgar a wink and a teasing smile, she knew how to relax him when it seemed none of the others did. William glanced at Penelope “Actually, I think you should contract Penelope she’s the only one here who hasn’t shown her tricks yet.” This was an undeniable truth, Penelope had always possessed the ability to go unnoticed, it was bordering on the superhuman.