Innocence In Lord Of The Flies

They are lost and alone, no one around, just them, the ocean and a tropical paradise. With no civilization, no regulations, or even mild things like a place to sleep, the young boys will find find out what they must do to survive alone in the unknown. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding the theme loss of innocence is clearly demonstrated throughout the book. The proper British boys were on a plane that crashed onto a tropical island. Without adults and the oldest boy being twelve, the boys must learn to survive themselves. Without civilization and authority to guide them, they turn to savagery and violence. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding portrays loss of innocence by exhibiting how people change when they realize what they

William Goldning’s Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel where literary techniques are utilized to convey the main ideas and themes of the novel. Two important central themes of the novel includes loss of civilization and innocense which tie into the concept of innate human evil. Loss of civilization is simply the transition from civilization to savagery; order to chaos. The concept of loss of innocense is a key concept to innate human evil because childhood innocense is disrupted as the group hunted animals and even their own. Through the use of literary techniques these ideas are seen in the passage where Simon confronts the “Lord of the Flies.”

Lord of the Flies is a very disturbing book; it shows that our environment can change the way we act on a normal day to day basis. This group of young boys, started out on the island as any other normal children, causing mischief and attempting to make the best of their situation, then things turn for the worst and two children are murdered by the others. I believe that these reactions were based on their environment as well as their biological development. The boys did seem normal, but they also were a violent group of boys, the oldest boys would constantly yell at the weaker boys. For instance, in the beginning when Piggy finally receives the conch and wants to talk, “I got the conch,” said Piggy. “You let me speak!” “The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain, so you shut up!” Jack says (Lord of the Flies, pg. 42). Majority of the boys would talk this way to each other, and it only gets worse throughout the book. This is why I think their actions rely on their biological development as well as their environment. They started out with violent words, words and actions that may have been okay at home, and then the environment, being stranded and hungry on a deserted island, furthered those violent words into violent actions. For the short amount of time that they were on this island, they should have kept some composure and realized that this was not a game and death is not a game, any sane person or child would have known this to be true.

I believe that the boys in Lord of the Flies suffered from loss of innocence in a very fast and drastic way. They had to learn how to move on from such a tragic and traumatizing situation and learn on the spot how to survive as well as well as how to thrive as a society and work together. Although the boys might not have succeeded in their objectives, but the efforts made to work towards these

In the Lord of the Flies when the British school boys are sent away and their plane crashes they’re stranded on an island without an adult. This leads them to do horrible things to each other. These boys who were stranded, lost every sense of innocence they used to have and that island took it from them. Some terrible things that the boys did was murder each other and slaughter a defenseless mama pig.

In the story “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, he shows how the boys lost all innocence and civilization. The boys went from having innocent child minds to taking lives of other people, acting savage, and losing all civilization due to problems on the island. The boys had forgotten where they came from and became savage in order to survive; it was the need of survival that caused the loss of innocence among the boys.

The Lord of the Flies starts with a group of good little British boys who slowly morph into savages who commit acts that would scar an adult, and do it for fun. In the beginning of the book, when the boys are first stranded on the island, after Ralph has been elected chief, Jack starts talking about rules. “’We’ll have rules!’ he cried excitedly. “’Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks ‘em- ‘” (Golding 29). The irony in this is not hard to find. When the boys were still innocent and civilized, they wanted rules. But, as life on the island grew more and more

Children are fragile. Even though children start off innocent, the lack of regulation can shatter that. In Lord of the Flies, the absence of rules and guidance dissolved the boys innocence and started their regression to savagery. The first incident where the boys face a lack of regulation is when the protagonist, Ralph, stands on the terrace and removes his clothes shortly after the crash.

In the final analysis of the Lord of the Flies it is really the children who demonstrate who the beast is. They first to on the presence of overwhelming fear, which eventually becomes that of war and lastly the savage nation of mankind. Because these boys were left alone with no one to “ dispel the terrors of the unknown” it eventually lead to the true understanding of the

"...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again..." (John Geddes) This quote illustrates how the boys in the Lord of the Flies by William Goulding would feel leaving, they will live with regret for what happened on the island for the rest of their lives. For on the island is where they lose their innocence at such early ages. In the Lord of the Flies, one of the major themes is the loss of innocence. The boy’s loss of innocence is displayed throughout the novel as they shed their clothes, through the killing of the pigs, and kill Simon and Piggy.

Children are generally regarded as the symbol of innocence and purity throughout literature, media and in real life. However, this is not the case in the Lord of the Flies. At first in this novel, all of the children were innocent as they had just arrived from ordinary civilization. This is evident when Jack hesitates to kill a pig at the very beginning. However, as the story progresses, savagery becomes apparent in children; they perform vicious acts and they lose their innocence as a result of adaptability. Even though most of the children lose their innocence, not all of them do; the little uns in particular do not perform any savage acts, they just play on their own and do not participate in any violent murders.

Norman Cousins, American journalist and peace activist, once said, "The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live." In the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, the characters go through a loss of innocence which can be illustrated by the words of Norman Cousins. Throughout the novel, the young boys are put in situations in which their innocence slowly dwindles away by being revealed to the born hate inside of everyone. The characters’ loss of innocence in Lord of the Flies is shown when Jack killed a pig for the first time, by the truth from the Lord of the Flies, and the gradual death of the island itself.

In William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, a few dozen boys are stranded on an island after a plane crash. The six to twelve year old kids turn to savages under the lead of the older males, and ultimately cause their own deaths. However, the smaller boys, such as Piggy and Sam and Eric, are the hope and reason of the group. Golding’s purpose of writing the book was to show that the defects in society originate at the defects in human nature. Golding allows the little ones to have no identities or personalities. This is symbolically showing that in society, the ignorant and innocent children are the only hope to a humane society. Innocence is purity, and the innocent children, in which are not corrupted by the bad people and things in the

Innocence has passed ; rebellion has entered. As a group of young school boys are stranded on an island they lose their sense of control and order. In The Lord of The Flies , the main theme is centered around “the fall of man”. Roger embodies this fall. Evil takes time and in the novel Golding shows the process of the fall and how over time the boys turn against each other.

(GC) The kids on island just loved having no rules. Imagine the United States getting rid of all laws. The country would be chaos. This is exactly what happens to the boys, they are very satisfied with having no rules. That is why the kids chose Jack over Ralph, because Jack is all for freedom and letting the evil side out. (Clincher) Having rules in today’s world is an essential, but we were all born with evil inside, and it is up to us on whether keep it in or let it