Dialectical Journal For Lord Of The Flies

This statement by Jack shows the Id being the most powerful Freudian division in Jack. By breaking away, Jack is disregarding the fact that he is destroying the island’s peace and decreasing their chances of rescue and survival. Though he was powerful as he was the leader of hunting team but he wanted to be more powerful. His lust for power shows that his actions are highly driven by id. Because of it, he was turning from ‘civilized to barbaric’. He was forgetting the former civilization taught in his society.

This quote portrays how Jack is speaking to all boys particularly little boys who are afraid and believe that the beast is in the island. Jack says little boys begin the anxiety and create rumour about the beast and his hunters and he promise to the little boys that they will guard all by killing the beast. However, the evil within Jack make him speak like a savage by saying that because the little boy do not contribute in the hunting or making of the smoke, so this would lead them to be attacked by the beast. This shows how Jack is heartless and selfish.

Piggy’s physical appearance contributes to his position as an outsider within the society of boys. When Piggy and Ralph first meet, Ralph remarks on Piggy’s shortness of breath to which Piggy responds, ¨ That’s right. Can’t catch my breath. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma, said the fat boy with a touch of pride, ‘And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three¨ (Golding 9). This quote describes Piggy as a fat boy with asthma and glasses, while the other boys are skinny and do not share any of the same characteristics as him. In addition, the author contributes to the outcasting Piggy by never revealing his real name and only describing Piggy as the “fat boy.” This proves that in this society, Piggy is not worth getting to

Early into the book, we are introduce to a plethora of characters who all seem to differ but are all very young, it starts with Ralph and Piggy, as they explore piggy brings up that they might be there forever: “ ‘We may stay here till we die’ with that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding engulfence.”(Golding, 14) The blinding engulfing simple refers to what they fear, the unknowing. Later into chapter one, a child brings up the thought at the first meeting of a beast roaming the island: “ ‘Beastie?’ ‘A snake-like thing. Ever so big. He saw it.’ “ Golding 35,36). After this was said the others went silent solely because of that idea and they don’t know what is on this uninhabited island they’ve crashed on.

If girls were on Coral island, I do not think things would be totally different, the motives and results will be the same. Putting them in the same era, there are girls that are brutal, mean, and very manipulative, they wants power, and they will use rules or bullying to get what they want and use any sort of punishment. The conch shells would not be important the leader, There would be groups, that the girls put themselves into. I feel they would be organized, The leader would want someone else to get food for them, and built the shelter for them, the bigger girls would have no problems getting food or hunting for it, in that time era, they would be able to take a stick and sharpen and go kill some animals for food and find berries, and edible plants and fish in the sea, girls today I think would have a hard time, unless you are a hunter or has to live that life that required to hunt and kill for your food. the girls be able to get food or kill animal for food or wait for someone else to be able to get a stick and sharpened it.

- "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are the best at everything."

"'But I shall! Next time! I've got to get a barb on this spear! We wounded a pig and the spear fell out. If we could only make barbs—'"

A.) What is the author’s style? His style is very nihilistic, because throughout the whole story whenever someone or something dies he says “so it goes”. He thinks this, because during his trip to Tralfamadore they tell him about the true nature of time.

In Chapter 1 of the dystopian novel, Ralph and Piggy are the first characters introduced. When the boys are gathered on the island, Piggy and Ralph are the first to meet. By that moment, you instantly assume Ralph is the athletic one and Piggy is not. Piggy is described as the chubby boy who has asthma and wears glasses while Ralph is the fair looking boy. The two boys find out that there is other boys on the island. They gather a meeting and decide to elect a leader. Ralph definitely meets the requirements while Piggy falls behind. Later in the chapter, you learn and find out that Piggy has had a hard time in his childhood. He comes off having a hard time and how he still tries to grasp those emotions. Ralph is shown running throughout the island as Piggy is trying to keep up behind him. He runs on the land, in the lagoon, climbing trees. He has athletic features and it’s noticeable.

Though he was outspoken, driven by the desire for power from the start he possessed a sort of innocence shown in the hesitation at his first chance to kill a wild pig. He interpreted his own hesitation as a sign of weakness and as a result the event left him with something to prove. The island would change Jack; as would his new-found, unrestricted power. Using the threat of “the beast” he made use of the part of human nature in which we let our fear of the shadows overrule reason and perception.

In the novel the antagonist Jack is portrayed as a savage a ruthless kid. At first the book portrays Jack was a good hearted and an average child. After the initial shock of being trapped on a deserted island. The surviving boys started to play and swim .Then reality started to settle in and the boys discover how much trouble there in. As the novel goes on Jack is solely concentrated on the id principle. This quote in chapter four divulges on this concept “Jack began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” (Golding, 61). This shows Jack becoming very animalistic and primitive. He also shows signs of losing grip with reality and civilization. He is morphing into an animal and showing humanity's true colors.

This passage shows characterization of Jack. In the beginning of the book it was shown through Jack’s readiness to be leader of the group that he thrived on authority and not taking orders from others. As the book continued he only grew more savage and as shown by this quote Jack only became . He started to get pleasure out of hunting and killing animals. I thought that Jack’s nature would change through the influence of Ralph and Piggy but all it did was drive him further to insanity. The influence of others had no effect on him and rather than being influenced to be fairer he went rogue. This shows Jacks cruel and sadistic nature.

Jack’s development throughout the story is one of the most important in the story. Jack is the example of no adult leadership and no rules corrupting the boy. The reason Jack corrupts is due to a lack of rules, and his ego. Jack did not previously corrupt before the island due to society keeping him straight, but when society is no more, Jack quickly goes downhill. Trying to hunt for the first time, the boys still have the rules of society, and they see the amount of evil needed to kill. Jack is on the pig, getting ready to slice its throat, and pauses “long enough for them to understand what enormity the downward stroke would be” (Golding 31). This is Jack seeing how hard it is to finish the kill with society still

Imagine a world where everyone got along without conflicts. Would that be possible in the world as it is now or would everyone's inner darkness and greed come out? In Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad it was not possible. In Lord of the Flies, many boys are stranded on an island, alone. At first, they decide to work together but as the novel went on, it became clear that they were going to split up. And then in the frame tale Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells a story about a character named Kurtz' obsessions with ivory. Throughout both novels, the authors have the audience questioning whether the true nature of humans is good or bad. Even though it could be argued otherwise, Golding and Conrad use literary devices to show that the true nature of humans is essentially bad.

William Golding’s best selling novel, Lord of the Flies showcases his cynical view on humanity. This book depicts how a society of boys would function if civilization had not been forced on them. The outcast of the characters Simon and Piggy gives us a window into his view on which parts of society are valuable and what is not necessary. The killing of the pig and the bloodlust show us that Golding believes that humans are violent by nature. Finally, he shows us how rules are not followed, and how chaotic humankind can be. These facts will prove that Golding has a negative view of humanity.