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Civilization Vs Civilization

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Areil Castro kidnapped, abused, starved, tortured, and held three girls captive for ten years, Kermit Gosnell killed live babies under his cover as a doctor, and Charles Manson brutally murdered and tortured Sharon Tate and cut out her unborn child. One thing all these criminals have in commons is that they were all once innocent boys just like the boys in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, the boys were innocent and playful but as the book progresses, the civilization they made came crashing down, the boys become psychologically imbalanced and their beliefs drastically changed as well as their behavior.
Lord of the Flies portrays the civilization that the boys attempted to make but also the total …show more content…

The littluns as well as some of the older boys wanted to have fun and just play around all the time when they first arrived but as the book progresses, most of the boys start acting like savages and can’t control their growing impulses and/ or their “Id.” Furthermore, the boys became psychologically imbalanced. Early in the book, the boys play around and have fun.”They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate… the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again” (Golding, 55). In the quote, it shows how the boys are careless and are enjoying themselves by playing with each other. As the story goes on, Jack finds it hard to control his “Id” and acts impulsively. “Id” is part of Freud’s structure of personality. It represents the pleasure principle and it is present in everyone. It does whatever feels good and doesn’t care about reality only it’s own satisfaction. The quote, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”shows the savage-like behavior the boys have been expressing. Jack's dark impulses cause him to kill the sow brutally where as before he was unable and afraid to hurt and kill a living creature. Jack couldn’t control his “Id” and as a result, he acted savagely and impulsively.
The island represents both paradise and hell. Furthermore, when the boys first arrived, the island was like heaven/ paradise but as the book continues, when the boys begin acting savage-like, the more the

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