How Does Alice Mature In Lord Of The Flies

“As they [the hunters] danced, they sang. ‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.’ Ralph watched them, envious and resentful. Not till they flagged and the chant died away did he speak. ‘I’m calling an assembly.” (Golding ,75). The ever-growing hunters in the community have transformed into a bloodlust group of savages, or have they? These group of boys haven’t actually transformed, but rather they have shedded off the restrictions of their reinforced civilized society. In their new place ,with no law and order, the boys can do as they please and with this grows barbaric attitudes. The voice of reason, Ralph, is starting to lose democracy in the community with Jack’s threats of the beast. These threats make the boys seek protection and they start to follow the primal orders from Jack. With the downfall of their mannerly society, the boys are in a state of nature controlled by aggression and sadistic motives.

The need for civilization, innocence and loss of power is shown through the impaled pig's head. In order for the group to survive, animals must be killed in order for the boys to eat. Jack takes on the role of hunter because he enjoys killing living things, as seen when he states, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” (104) Ralph is a more calm person and does not enjoy killing as much as Jack, although he takes a small part in killing the pig. However, in the end, Jack gains all the power because everyone looks up to him as leader because he attempts to hunt the pig throughout the novel and is successful in the end. “We’ll take the meat along the beach.” “Pick up the pig,” Jack said. (150) Meanwhile, Ralph doubts Jack's abilities to kill the pig, and constantly mocks him about being successful. “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”(51) Jack proves Ralph wrong and kills the pig. “Jack begins to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."(58) He celebrates

The final push that drives the young boys over the edge is when the hunters kill Piggy. Ralph, Piggy, and a few others try to reclaim Piggy’s glasses at Jack’s camp. When Ralph arrives he is met by Jack and his hunters. The boys start to argue and a fight breaks out. Roger, one of Jack’s violent hunters, shoves Piggy over the cliff side. “Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea” (Golding 181). Roger had not shown Piggy any mercy. They all used to be good boys until the island took their innocence away from

The excessive hunting showed how the boys just killed for no apparent reason; this is not a normal thing for an innocent boy to do. It seemed as if all jack wanted to do is hunt instead of caring about protection and shelter. Humans were killed because the boys began to unravel the true nature of humans. Simon died when Jack said "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill His Blood!" Simon is eventually stabbed with a spear and that causes his death. The boys devour what they believe is the beast (Simon) and even if it was the beast, eating a beast doesn’t sound like what ‘innocent boys’ would do. Piggy’s death of course was most certainly not an accident. Rodger clearly knew what he was doing and he was throwing rocks just aiming to cause harm to someone, the rock hit Piggy and he fell off Castle Rock and died.

Jack and his tribe show the true meaning of savagery creeping in when the rules of society are forgotten. Ever since the boys arrived on the island, Jack has wanted to be the only one in control. When the boys voted for Ralph over Jack he became angry. The boys separated, some decided to become hunters and the others desired rescue. Jack quotes “ who will join my tribe”, so now Jack does have the power he’s been wanting but only to the savages. Jack becomes obsessed with the thrill of killing pigs that he takes his killings to another level. Golding uses zoomorphism to describe jack and the people in his tribe; “Jack began to dance and his laughter became bloodthirsty snarling.” Golding would use this literary device to show the ptrue animals the savages are. The boys chant “‘kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in’”, this indirectly shows the savagery that the boys have developed since stranded in an environment where there is no authority. After Jack achieves killing pigs he becomes even more bloodlust. Jack and the boys kill Simon with no couth then Jack allows Roger, another savage, kill Piggy. After the murders they all act like nothing has happened. Jack doesn’t show pure savagery because he uses a clay mask when he hunts, which hides his true personality. This savagery creeps in when all

After all of the boys had ate their fill of hog the boys began their chant, ¨Kill the beast! Cut His throat! Spill his blood!¨ As Roger was pretending to be the pig the chant suddenly became much more than a game. During their chant, ¨A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe¨(Golding 152) The boys barely seemed affected as they just opened the circle up into a horseshoe and enclosed the beast in the circle. That was not the beast as they believed though. The ¨beast¨ was actually Simon. ¨Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill¨(Golding 152.) As Simon cried out Ralph heard him and Ralph was on the outside of the circle. That means that if Ralph on the outside of the circle could understand him then the boys close to the middle must of been able to hear him. So the boys just wanted to kill something or someone. To the Jack and his band of followers they were to worried about killing then to see what the consequences were. Not only did Jack and his savages murder on of their own they also validated my point. Humans are self-centered and do what is the most pleasing for the time being not what will help them in the future. Those 30 seconds of fun caused regrets for Samneric, Piggy, and Ralph, those actions also probably caused some of

While in the beginning of the novel Jack, still maintains his inhibitions; although further in the novel, Jack does not care about the rules and does whatever he pleases. Roger, who originally keep some inhibitions, and realized that rules do still exist, ends up becoming so entwined with savagery that he takes Piggy’s life in cold blood and brutally tortures a mother pig. Ralph, the tribe leader during the beginning of the novel, gets thrown out by the evil Jack, and becomes so locked into the mob that he ends up becoming savage himself. By being involved with killing Simon and torturing Robert, Ralph proves the corruptness of the human nature. Golding proves through Lord of the Flies, without rules the sinfulness of the human nature . Even though under parental supervision the boys act civilized, without the rules and supervision that civilization and parents put on them, corruptness and savagery will take

The real problem during the boy's experience is they succumb in human nature. After some time on the island and civilization is slowly starting to rot Golding states, “Surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea" (Golding 154). To clarify, the boys as they were babies their parent always taught them to never murder anybody as a rule. As the boys start to realize that there are no rules on the island and are given freedom their human nature breaks and murders a little boy. Furthermore, after Simon's death, Jack wasn't done with lurking for more blood to spill, Golding says, “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee: the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

It’s hard to recreate a society and make order when you are a young boy, all you want to do is to have fun and play. This is shown many times in the book by some of the characters, especially during times of hunting. Chapter 7, reveals this to us when the young hunters chant this at one of the boys (Robert,) “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!.” This chant shows the childness and savagery that the boys went through.

From the moment she sees the White Rabbit taking his watch from his waistcoat pocket, Alice tries to understand the logic of Wonderland. None of the rules that she has been taught seem to apply in Wonderland. The characters in Wonderland have no sense of manners and respond to her questions with answers that make no sense. For example, the Mad Hatter asks the questions, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” (Alice 51). Alice assumes he is asking a riddle and she begins to try to answer it, thinking the Hatter would not ask a riddle without knowing the answer. When Alice is unable to figure out the riddle, the Hatter explains that there is no answer. He does not explain why he asked the riddle, he simply says, “I haven’t the slightest idea” (Alice 53). In which Alice replies, “I think you might do something better with the time, than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers” (Alice 53). The Hatter then responds with a lecture on Time, which he depicts as a person. Time being depicted as a person makes no logical sense to Alice. In the end, Alice rebels during the trial scene when the King said “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court” (Alice 88). Alice objects to the absurd nature of the trial saying, “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” (Alice 91). This final scene is the end of her dream, and she wakes up with her head in her sister’s lap.

In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the main character, Alice, undergoes quite a change. During the time the novel was published, parts of the world were in the victorian era. The Queen at the time was Queen Victoria, in which the era was named after. During this era, knowledge, class and reason were greatly valued, and stressed. This time period ended in the year of Queen Victoria’s death. Throughout the novel, there are many ways that show how Alice begins to understand the world in adult terms, matures, and grows.

Lewis Carroll's use of puns and riddles in Alice in Wonderland help set the theme and tone. He uses word play in the book to show a world of warped reality and massive confusion. He uses such play on words to reveal the underlying theme of ‘growing up', but with such an unusual setting and ridiculous characters, there is need for some deep analyzing to show this theme. The book contains many examples of assonance and alliteration to add humor. Carroll also adds strange diction and extraordinary syntax to support the theme.

 In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll shows the ridiculous nature of adults through his extraordinary characters. The amiable Cheshire Cat is the only character to help Alice in her struggle through Wonderland and admit that he is mad. "Oh you can't help that, we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad (Carroll )." All other characters are pointlessly didactic and feel the need to constantly snap at her, preach to her, confuse her, or ignore her. The Duchess, for instance, is inconsistent, unpleasant, pointless, and is of no help to Alice in her predicament. " flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is Birds of a feather flock together (Carroll )." Many children see adults, especially those that are of authority, as having the same nature as the Duchess. The arbitrary , bloody Queen of Hearts is an

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll endures as one of the most iconic children 's books of all time. It remains one of the most ambiguous texts to decipher as Alice 's adventures in Wonderland have created endless critical debate as to whether we can deduce any true literary meaning, or moral implication from her journey down the rabbit hole. Alice 's station as a seven year old Victorian child creates an interesting construct within the novel as she attempts to navigate this magical parallel plain, yet retain her Victorian sensibilities and learn from experience as she encounters new creatures and life lessons. Therefore, this essay will focus on the debate as to whether Alice is the imaginatively playful child envisaged by the Romantics, or a Victorian child whose imagination has been stunted by her education and upbringing.

Throughout both of these stories the children try to implement savagery and how violence is learned in the world through their surroundings. Even the character who is the most peaceful, Ralph, later on becomes violent through learning how to survive. He understands that without violence he can not succeed nor protect himself. At the beginning of the story Ralph did not know how to kill nor hunt but later on he is forced to learn. In the story Ralph learns how to kill a boar for food. It states “With the boar only five