Lord Of The Flies Analysis

In Lord of the Flies by John Steinback a group of young boys are stranded on an island. To survive the boys decided to vote who should be their leader, Ralph or Jack. Piggy is a smart, fat boy who is not respected by the boys. Ralph is the face of leadership but not the best for the job compared to Piggy. Piggy is the brains behind Ralph who gives the essential idea to further progress the island.

“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed”(Rand). This was stated by Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand; the extract relates to the novel William Golding wrote called Lord of the Flies. Golding wrote about a group of schoolboys trapped on an island from a plane crash. The boys had to figure out how to survive without grownups. Trying to survive was difficult because they had to have common sense and order. They lose those traits throughout the book which resulted in selfishness and corrupt behaviors.

What went wrong in the Lord of the Flies? Some may say Jack and some may say Roger, but what are the real reasons for the downfall of the boys? They are, the loss of hope, the loss of order, and the passing of time.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

Throughout history, philosophers have wondered what essentially drives people to do certain actions. It is not clear whether these actions occur because humans are intrinsically good or bad. Nevertheless, the novel Lord of the Flies and several historical examples provide some insight into why human beings may be fundamentally bad.

As the days go by, the will to be free of all rules is starting to present itself as the civilized way of life begins to deplete and some of the boys start avoiding the rules. The rules that have been obeyed before, start to become irrelevant as Jack and his hunters forget to keep the fire going, they forget to put fresh water in the coconut shells and the littluns go to the washroom near the fruits but the conch’s power still prevails in bringing them together. The descent into chaos is manifested when Jack gets mad and says, “Conch, Conch, we don’t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things. [...] It's time some people knew they've got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us.” (p.101-102) Jack is the first of the boys to descend into savagery and to ignore the rules of the conch. Nevertheless, most of the boys don’t take too long to accompany Jack and to descend into brutality themselves. This is emphasized when Jack and his tribe kill Piggy and break the conch.”The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”(p.181) Piggy was the only one left that abided the rules of the conch and was trying to lead the boys away from inhumanity and back to the well moralized boys they were when they first arrived on

Many people have wondered what it will be like on a deserted island at least once before, maybe as a question a teacher asked or an assignment to see what you will need. The book “Lord of the flies,” written by William Golding, explains the lives of children who are stranded on an island trying to survive and be rescued during a war. Jack, a tall, thin, bony, red haired, freckled face, and blue eyed boy, is by one of the most savage boys trying to survive by having no rules, no sympathy, and no respect for one’s saying.

Leadership is an uncommon trait that stands out in those who possess it. People are like a herd of sheep, they need a shepherd. This shepherd figure more often than not tends to be the strongest person. However, the suspected strongest person doesn’t always make the best leader. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies Ralph demonstrates to be a better leader than Jack, despite being physically weaker. Jack is physically stronger, while Ralph has a sturdier head on his shoulders. Ralph knows what is the best for their group of boys. He is also more well liked by the other boys opposed to Jack.

From here there is a reasonable element and a monstrous one, respectively representative of good and evil. The dark side of human nature is shown to be not simply malicious, but also fearful and confused. Jack and his gang of hunters are not murderous by nature, but instead they assert themselves with transparent facades of courage. Their fundamental innocence is shown to be lost gradually throughout the story, but in the end they cry about all that they have done.

The crying gradually died down. The tears step by step floated into abandoned wheezes, hiccups, and sneezes. Before long just a couple of littluns remained sneezing, rubbing their running noses with the back of their grimy hands.

This snippet from Chapter 4 gives us a look at Jack’s mental state after killing his first pig, another event that led to the savagery of the boys. Jack is joyful about the kill and is unable to think about anything else because his mind is “crowded with memories” of the hunt. William Golding connects Jack’s excitement with the feelings of power and superiority he experienced whilst killing the pig. Though, Jack’s excitement doesn’t come from having food and helping the group, it comes from having outwitted another creature. In the beginning of the novel, Jack claimed that hunting was important for providing meat for the group. It is now that it becomes clear that he doesn’t care about feeding the other boys or the common good, he only cares

CHAPTERS 4-6 The island soon becomes pleasant and nice. Cool air starts forming and fresh scents.By the afternoon it becomes incredibly hot.The ‘’littleuns’’start to see frightning images and,visitons. on the water,Piggy explains that its just the sun.Muarice and roger start to torment the little kids by stomping on there sand castls,Roger evn threw stones to them avoiding to actually hit them.As jack gets ready for hunting he covers his face with clay and characoal then goes to hunt with the other boys.Piggy and Ralph see aship they rush to the fire but it was to late.Ralph and Piggy are angerd becuase it was Jacks job.Jack returns with bloodstains and a dead pig.Piggy complains about how immature Jack is ,Jack the slaps Piggy breaking one

In the words of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.” In other words, humans harbor an ever present looming evil nature within themselves. Evil is the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin, or the wicked or immoral part of someone. This concept of inner evil rising to the surface permeates William Golding’s dystopian novel Lord of the Flies, that evil exists in every human, proven through the characterization of the marooned boys. There is foreshadowing of the dangers of the boys’ inner immorality from one of the boys, Simon. As the novel progresses, evil starts asserts itself as the boys cast off their innocence and humanity, and turning against each other. Even the

David actually volunteered for the task and Goliath had a field day mocking the small stature boy. David responded to the mockery by saying, “You come to me equipped with a sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord, the same Lord that you have been ridiculing.

“Isolation is a dream killer” (Barbara Sher). In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, kids stranded on an island must figure out how to survive. By hunting pigs and building shelters the kids tried to subsist on the island. Through the process of hunting, the kids became cruel, evolving to the point of being barbaric. Thus, through the barbaric actions of the boys and the outside world, Golding shows that savagery exists in all people.