Clever Beasts Or Unique Creations?

The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is an allegory that connects the boys’ behavior in the novel to the basic behavior of human nature. In the novel, the boys fear a wild beast that has the potential to kill them off. However, Simon, a quiet boy, finds that the beast is not an animal that everyone should fear, but is a part of each boy himself.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an allegory that explores the instinctual evil humans possess and how this evil manifests into our societies. The book demonstrates this through young boys who are stranded on an island due to a plane crash. Despite their best efforts, the lack of adult guidance inhibits the boys from maintaining an orderly society. The boys turn to their survival instincts, many of which are evil. The lack of order exposes the internal savagery within the boys, resulting in an understanding of the flaws within all humanity. The Lord of the Flies uses the innocence of young boys to show the societal impact of human errors through their lack of adult supervision, the desire to inflict violence, and the need for authority over others.

Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding shows his views of the inherent evil of humans. He shows how humans can be in such a savage state, practically mimicking the way of life of their prehistoric ancestors. He exemplifies this with acts of carnage carried on by the young stranded children. It all started with a slight urge to hunt down a pig and then continued on to murdering another human being. Golding shows his views best at the end of the book with the boys being rescued by a Navy crew, which would go on to war it self.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about a group of boys stranded on an island with no adults and no rules. Golding believes that humans all have a capability to do wrong, and through The Lord of the flies portrays how certain situations make a human’s capacity for evil more prominent. Golding shows how the boys’ civilization deteriorates from being good British kids to murderous savage people. The novel can easily be connected to the Stanford Prison Experiment, and how what happened to the boys on the island can happen outside the realm of fiction. Golding shows the reader what the Lord of the Flies is in the book and how the namesake of the book is found in all of us.

The Lord Of The Flies is a Nobel prize winning novel, written by William Golding. Who was an English teacher in 1930’s. The novel is about a group of young British school boys who find themselves deserted on an island in the Pacific Ocean and are forced to fight for themselves. This has a unique symbolism of characters and the events. The young boys don’t know how to fight for themselves and turn into complete savages by the end of the Novel and they have some freedom from the adult rules they are familiar with back at home.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is tale of a group of young boys who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Intertwined in this classic novel are many themes, most that relate to the inherent evil that exists in all human beings and the malicious nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the boys' gradual transformation from being civilized, well-mannered people to savage, ritualistic beasts.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book set during World War 2 about a group of young boys having to fend for themselves on an island with no signs of civilization. Within the novel, there are many different themes, most conveying the ingrained evil within all human beings and the malevolent complexions of humanity. As the story advances, Golding manifests the continuous conversion of the boys from being civilized and methodical people to ferocious savages. The book can be expounded in terms of political and social allegory. Golding covers a myriad of details that evince two contrasting political factions. By analyzing the allegory of Jack and the beast it is

In the book, Lord of the Flies, William Golding demonstrates the true evil human nature through children that are abandoned on a desert island. In the novel, Golding shows how that the children can not organize themselves, which represents the true chaos of our civilization without leadership. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the boys to depict anarchy and the downfall of civilization by emphasizing the lack of structure amongst the children.

In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the innocence of youthful schoolboys deserted on an island to portray the innate evil within the most unsuspecting type of humans. The boys going through a dramatic change as the story’s conflict deals with man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. himself. In the beginning of the story the boys were described as scared and nervous for they have never been a situation like this. At first they manage to sustain order and a connection to civilization by coming together and forming a group using a conch shell.

William Golding’s novel “The Lord of the Flies” contains a reoccurring figure the boys of the island fear and nickname “the beast” (53). He is an animal who’s ever growing presence engulfs the boys with fear as well as drives them to embrace their wild inner instincts. This eventually leads them to desert Ralph and his side of the island for Jack’s more savage way of being. Simon is the first to realize that the beast is not a creature that lives on land or sea but a part of each individual boy. A part that chips away at their conscious and drives them to act wild and uncivilized in order to survive.

It also portrays one of the older boys, Jack, trying to persuade the entire group of boys and maybe even himself that there is no such thing as the “Beast”. During this, we realize just how real the boys’ situation is on the island. They show the first signs of losing their will to be

Soon it is learned that Jack is weary of killing the pig as he lets it escape but now has the taste for blood. In hopes for being rescued the boys build a fire to try and attract a ship or plane. The plan does not work although, because a ship passes while the fire is out. Leaving the boys with a sense of hopelessness. Ralph focused on building shelters and trying to build a signal fire again, reflects opposite on Jack’s behavior of needing to hunt not for food, but to kill. After the ship passes Ralph calls a meeting where it is learned the younger of the kids are scared of a so called ‘beastie’ which scares the others. Convinced and denying Ralph’s reasoning of that there’s no beast, one child suggests that it hides in the water during the day, causing a breeze of anxiety to flow through the clan. One night, while all of the boys are sleeping military fighting planes have a battle over the island and leaves a dead soldier in a parachute to land on the island. Sam and Eric, being on fire duty to keep it lit, heard the parachute “fifteen yards away from them came the plopping noise of fabric blown open” (98). Thinking it is the beast the twins run back to the camp in terror and insist the beast has attacked them. Jack and Ralph trek up the mountain to see and hunt the beast and discover the parachute. By then another meeting is held

The writer, William Golding, successfully display the nature of evil in his story, Lord of the Flies, by narrating different scenes that take place between the groups of young boys whose plane just crashed on an island in the Pacific Ocean. First of all, Golding writes the story in the context of the war-filled environment in the British real life. The story is only a representation of the actual war and other evils like corruption, hatred and extrajudicial killings that took place in the country in the war era. Even though William Golding narrates the story so passionately, he seems to condemn the evil things that transpire among the boys while in the island. The writer classifies the kids in two groups, and one is of confused and the other

Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during a war. In the novel “Lord of the Flies”’ William Golding establishes the theme of evil in human nature. It is reflected through elements of symbolism, characterization, and dramatic plot structure.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was written in 1954 to show how easily the moral code humans are taught from birth can be lost when faced with difficult circumstances. The story is set on a tropical island that seems deserted without evidence of other human life. The setting in a literary work can have a major impact on the development of the characters. In addition, the setting brings forth the underlying conflict in the story. The Lord of the Flies is no different as it is set on a deserted island and involves a group of young boys aged twelve who are stranded after a terrible plane crash. The boys stay on island brings forth both the evil and the goodness in them hence the influence of the setting on the mentality and behavior of the characters. The island is also calm and peaceful evidenced by the line “ Out there perhaps a mile away. The white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue. Within the irregular arc of corral, the lagoon was still a mountain lake-blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple”(Golding 10). William Golding portrays the transformation of characters from good to evil, from once civilized humans to savage beasts to increase their chance of survival and safety.