Grudge Match In Lord Of The Flies

The most powerful recurring conflict in The Lord of the Flies is the man vs man. Throughout the book disagreements and altercations amongst the boys occur in every chapter, appearing in every situation. Ralph and Jack have been fighting for the spot of being chief and no matter what the situation is they don’t know how to work together. It creates a feud with high tensions that later result in the boy’s going down their own path’s about being on the island. The two boy’s were both trying to accomplish what they thought was best, but the choices made from either boy didn’t coincide with each other’s decision’s, especially when an assembly was demanded:

Bedtimes and rules are something many children despise when they are growing up. They want to grow up and break away from their parents. The boys from Lord of the Flies are experiencing what it is like to be on their own when they crash landed on an island with no adults. Boys ranging from ages five to twelve are stranded on an island together and have to learn to adapt to their new environment to survive. This creates many problems among the older boys who want to hold power. William Golding conveys that deprivation from civilization can cause people to completely change their morals and sense of right from wrong in his novel Lord of the Flies through the use of external conflict which is the boys struggle with power and being stranded on the island, savage characterization, and symbolism such as the Lord of the Flies and Jacks spear.

As everyone sits down for a meeting, the beast’s existence is questioned. “... maybe there is a beast,” (89). Ralph is the first to bring up the idea of the beast and how fear can overcome you. This resembles personification because Golding talks about this idea of the beast as if it is a real, tangible object but really it resembles the savage tendencies deep within ourselves. Furthermore, Golding interprets the savage tendencies seeking through the boys when they believe they need to hunt and kill this beast. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”(186). Jack and his group of hunters become torturers of anything and everything that threatens their little gang. They have lost all of their innocence and let the beast inside them take over their

Oftentimes authors will use symbolism through the characters in order to represent a larger encompassing theme. William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies is no exception to this pattern—as various characters in the book have such allegorical meanings. In the case of Jack, he could be said to represent the evilness in humanity, proven by three established concepts in the story: the true nature of his hunting tendencies, the progression of events that happen in his dancing rituals, and his interactions towards other symbolic figures. These three reasons, furthered by evidence shown throughout the novel, fit Jack into a role of symbolic evilness (add something here).

The image of the beast is introduced by Golding as a physical being, however, it is merely a fictional symbol of the darkness within. The beast is immediately associated with the decay of the makeshift society on the island. In chapter five, Jack shares his thoughts on the state of the island during an assembly: “‘Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then-’ He moved the conch gently, looking beyond them at nothing, remembering the beastie, the snake, the fire, the talk of fear. ‘Then people started getting frightened’” (Golding 82). Here, lines are drawn directly between the dilapidation of the island society, and the growing fear within it. This fear of the beast, or

Jack had tried to lead the inhabitants of the island by terror and savagery instead of by order and civilization when he had declared himself chief of his hunter-driven tribe. Both his lust for blood and lust for power had aided him in becoming the savage tyrant and an antagonist of the book. Jack’s widespread fear would not have been substantial enough to build his stature in the hierarchy if the “beast” was not included in the story. The beast has been portrayed to the readers as a dead parachuter from the world war happening beside them. The characters, however, had no clue about the outside world or the parachuter who fell on the island. Therefore, the beast became a part of their fear on the island. The beast was the main antagonist in the middle of the story. It caused the most discord in the already terror-ridden state of the boys. The internal fears of the characters, the feeling of terror towards the other characters, and the nightmarish imagination of the youth, had all shown the dominating abilities of fear taking over the vulnerable sense of

Throughout the whole novel, the beast progressively grew, later symbolizing the inner savagery of humans without discipline. In the infancy of the novel, the boys started to recognize a strange beast like creature that had shaken and alarmed them. One of the boys declared to the others- “But if there was a snake we’d hunt it and kill it. We’re going to hunt pigs to get meat for everybody, and

" This description is very similar to Sam and Eric's description of the beast on the mountain. Also towards the end of the book the boys are leaving it sacrifices and and treating it as a totemic pole. Another way the beast represents savagery is that Jack starts to become more evil and savage-like when he starts to hunt after the beast. Eventually it gives him an insane lust for killing which leads him to split from the group and make his own group of savages. In a way, the beast is the entire reason why Jack became this power hungry psychopath to begin

Golding creates the theme with imagery such as “‘I cut the pig’s throat,” said Jack… There was lashings of blood,” said jack laughing and shuddering, “you should have seen it!”’(69) This quote is important because it's in the beginning of the violent savagery which adds to the theme that humans are naturally evil. Another thing about this quote is Golding’s choice of diction: “lashings” and “laughing and shuddering” it tells us that Jack is proud of killing the pig and likes the goar of hunting. The disturbing

The boys feel not only threatened, but also confronted with panic and loss. With no adult supervision on the island, the boys do not follow rules and

In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the appearance of the beast to represent the boy's inner savagery that is being battled and embraced by the characters of Ralph and Jack. Through the beast, Golding suggests that fear is a powerful tool that can be used as a weapon to control others and can even eventually consume the minds of sane individuals.

The book demonstrates how Jack is evil. He liked to be mean to people and say mean things to them. Jack does not care, because they do not have an adult around, he also wanted to be the chief. “Serves you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry babies.”(83). This is how he thinks about everyone on the island, he was not a nice boy. He also was mean with knowing that no beast lives on the island and telling the boy’s that there is a beast. “You, listen. The beast is sitting up there, whatever it is--”(126). This is just how he tells the boys about the beast, one of the many times. Golding does a great job about demonstrating us Jack’s rude and mean personality.

Ralph, one of the main characters, was initially the leader, but a boy named Jack came along, and took over the group of boys and the madness began. When Jack took over, Ralph was pushed over to Piggy’s side, Piggy is a slightly overweight boy, and is often teased by the surrounding boys, including Ralph. “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” (Golding 202). The quote explains how the island and the people surrounding him stole his innocence and savageness lies within everyone’s hearts. Similarly, Ralph resembles the Jews being killed by Hitler (Jack) and the German Nazis (Jack’s followers) for their beliefs. The overall theme of his novel is all humans naturally have a little bit of evil and savagery inside of them. All of the boys stranded on the island are initially innocent and civilized, but as the leaders changed along with the rules, the evil and savageness buried in their hearts shone through. Both Jack and Ralph have very different views of leadership. Ralph is more interested in making the boys build shelters and fires and do useful stuff to help keep them alive. Whereas on the other hand, Jack is primarily interested in hunting. Jack’s camp is parallel to the practice of the internment camps of World War Two. Ralph realizes that Jack had stole the fire so he

The protagonist, Ralph is one of oldest boys on the Island. He is described as tall and good looking. His determination to hold on to logic and the order of the world…. After discovering the conch and gathering the boys his natural leadership is recognized and he is quickly elected leader of the boys. As the most levelheaded boy on the island Ralph does his best to keep them grounded and not let them divulge into a free state of savagery. Holding to hope of one day being rescued and trying to encourage moral sensibility Ralph

This novel follows a group of British schoolboys stranded on an island after a plane crash, which killed the pilot, as well as passengers. The boys are left without an adult figure to guide them. The main characters consist of Jack, Ralph and Piggy and in the beginning, Ralph is the boy that takes control. However, Jack soon strays from the group and convinces most of the young boys to follow him and encourages barbaric acts.