'Lord Of The Flies' By William Golding: Literary Analysis

On the surface, laws are often viewed as restrictions that take away from personal freedom. Many see rules as a type of control and it’s easy to make sense of the idea that without laws, we would have absolute freedom. However, philosopher John Locke did not agree with this concept and stated, “For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” This paradox claims just the opposite; that without law there is no freedom. Locke’s theory can be applied to William Golding’s Lord of the Flies through his characters’ actions in Chapters 4-6.

Would a society last for even a day without rules and order? How would young adults respond in comparison to older adults? In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, he provides a similar scenario where a group of young British boys get stranded on an island and must sustain themselves until they get rescued. In the meanwhile, the boys establish some rules and standards to maintain order. The order is short-lived, for, through a series of events, the boys become more savage, it exacerbates to the point where a few boys die. Golding comments on human nature and interactions through the actions and development of the characters and concludes that there is no need for rules. Contractionary to Golding, some would claim that rules and order are necessary in a society because they establish a civilization, attempt to prevent chaos, and maintains the strength of its citizens’ morality.

Alexander Hamilton once stated, “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased”. In 1954 William Golding Published the novel Lord of the Flies in order to get a deeper look into the flaws of society that are related to the flaws of human nature. During WWII a group of British school boy were being transported by plane but the plane was shot down killing the pilot and leaving a group of boys on an island where there is no adult supervision. Today our topic will be focusing on the pessimistic views of human nature that are presented

There are certain traits in individuals that seem to be passed down from generation to generation and, regardless of the number of studies and discoveries established, they have a way of showing up in our environments. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of schoolboys find themselves stranded on an island and in a series of events, their behavior is altered and they become very malicious. It is questionable whether the reason for this alteration in their behavior is due to their circumstances or to their human nature. It is most probable that both of these options played a part in the boys’ immoral decisions but stronger evidence supports that their behavior was situational. Stanley Milgram dedicated himself to study behavior, bringing forth results that indicated that the majority of people will behave unethically when they are in a situation that calls for it. Relating this to Lord of the Flies, one is able to see the influence that Jack had over the other boys towards the end of the novel and this is an interesting concept to explore.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a bunch of boys get stranded on an island with no adults. Without any adults the boys eventually turn fully savage, uncontrolled and violent. His novel shows how humans change their personality to fit different roles. The older boys, Simon, Ralph, Piggy, and others try to keep everyone civilized, but in the end it does not turn out that way.

The title itself demonstrates this. Lord of the Flies, who symbolized human evil, is another name for the Satan; Satan is told to be the evil that corrupts humans. Everyone has evil inside them, but this evil is waiting to be released. When the boys are on the island, their fears and competition cause them to resort to evil. However, this evil is human nature. Outside of their microcosm of society, the adults are committing the same sin. Golding wants to show that human evil is in the nature of all humans. Adults and children alike are able to commit evil to the same degree. Simon, who was shown as the good in society, is killed by his fellow schoolboys when they think him to be the beast. However, the young boys knew very well that is was Simon and not the imaginary beast. Evil has dominated over good. These boys were able to kill with a clear conscious. This event also symbolizes war. Humans become robots during times of war that they learn to naturally kill without emotion. Golding wanted to present this to his

Jack becomes more obsessed with trying to kill a pig. However, he gets "stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting" (Golding 49) so he decides to bring in two more forces to help kill the pig. "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" (Golding 152) is what the boys were chant at their dance party about the pig. When Simon is confronted with the beast, who is actually a parachutist, his first natural impulse is to tell the rest of the boys that there is no beast and that it was just a dead parachutist. Simon decides to go and interrupt the boys in the middle of their dancing and chanting to tell them about the dead parachutist posing as the beast. As the other boys hear Simons voice in the distance "crying out something about a dead man" (Golding 152), they think that Simon is the beast. So as a natural instinct of the boys, they start to chase and attack Simon, dying shortly after the boys attacked him to death. It is the nature of the boys to act aggressively once a disruption has been made. Most of the boys who had a contribution to Simon's death were in Jack's crew; leading to the argument that being around Jack and his way of life may have had something to do with them acting savage enough to kill Simon. However, in any young boy it is their nature to be aggressive and want to pick fights, they probably just do not know that it could have resulted in someone's death. Showing that nature once again takes over in a person and was what took over in the

William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, shows that humans are evil through the characters treatment of Piggy. Piggy was viewed different from the other boys because he was fat, had asthma, and wore glasses. Jack, along with other characters, treated Piggy

One of the first questions a writer must ask is “Where does this story take place?” If the writer wanted to write a book about eskimo’s, he probably shouldn’t place the story in Africa, just as if William Golding wanted to write about a group of boys surviving on their own in a secluded area, he probably shouldn’t have chosen Paris, or New York, where there is a mass of people. Instead, Golding chose an uninhabited island located somewhere in the vast South Pacific Ocean, far from any civilization. However, this decision was not just solely based on its isolation; Many more important factors from the location come in play with Lord of the Flies’ plot.

‘Lord of the Flies’ is about a group of boys who are stranded in an island and how some of them become savage. The novel is an allegory; representing different types of people in the world and the conflicts found in it. ‘Lord of the Flies’ is written by William Golding and published in 1954. Golding portrays Roger as a sadistic person to illustrate how people can change to show their true savagery. Throughout the book, Roger displays, in multiple ways, how quickly people can turn savage without any higher authorities.

Lord of the flies is a noble prize winner that was written by William Goulding the novel is about four British school boys that where in a plane but the plane crash lands and get stranded on an island, the group of boys are on this island and there is conflict is seeming all the ways that Golding describes conflict though two of the main characters, Ralph leader of civilize and educated group, and Jack is leader of the savage group. In the book there’s a beast, all the boys saw this shadow in the air and they all thought it was a beast and they called it beastie. Jack made a decision to make a sacrifice for beastie so they went on a hunt, eventually they found a mother pig and jack had sharpened a stick both ends and stuck it into the ground and then cut off the pigs head and placed it on the tip on the sharp point and told the savage boys that the beast will not harm us.

Although world war two officially started on September third, 1939, in retaliation to the German invasion of Poland, the war had been stewing in a brew of bitterness, hate, economic depression, and democratic misconduct for more then a decade prior. To understand this foul mixture that was the breeding ground for the atrocious war, people everywhere have attempted to dissect the events leading up to the war, and in their own, explain why something as horrible as war could happen. One particular author, William Golding, tries to make sense of these circumstances in his book Lord of the Flies. Golding shares his understanding of the events leading to world war two through the children’s self government and actions in reaction to the beast. He criticizes the weimar republic's improper use of democracy, inspects how anti semitism became

Lord of the Flies begins with a young boy about twelve, in the middle of a dense jungle, regaining consciousness after a plane crash. The boy wanders around smoking mechanical parts and large twisted pieces of metal. It seems as though he is either the only person there or the only one to survive. As he walks along he comes across another boy, who happens to be quite over weight. He asks our main character and we are first introduced to Ralph. When Ralph returns the question the larger boy says he doesn't care what he calls him as long as it's not the name kids called him at school. When Ralph first asks what the name was the boy refuses. However, with persistence the boy gives in and tells him. The nickname the boy hates so much is, fittingly, “Piggy”. The boys continue searching for others with no luck. The boy, hearing waves begin to walk towards the beach.

“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause”(James). Savagery to many is perceived as maliciousness and malevolence, however, savagery is a part of being human. It is important to be circumspect while following free will as it can lead to violence. A intrepid being may show free will in a way different from a timid person. Civilization is how human nature progresses over time, and human nature can demonstrate savagery through free will. Over time, human nature has evolved, especially in instances when a person is fighting for survival. In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding displays how an attempt to civilization evolves human nature through savagery.

“Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever” and right then, the lever released a rock which killed Piggy (Golding 180), a crucial character in William Golding’s Novel Lord of the Flies. Golding’s novel features a group of boys from about six to fifteen years old who are marooned on an island where their plane crashed. The boys all agree that they need to survive, but their ways of doing so divides them. One of the boys, Ralph, proposes that they as a group should create a signal fire so that a rescue team can spot them, an idea thought of by Piggy. On the other hand, a violent minded youngster, Jack, believes that the only way to survive is to hunt and kill wild boars. As time passes, Jack’s group becomes