Lord Of The Flies Critical Analysis

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best” -Benjamin Disraeli. In the book, Lord of the Flies, A group of boys from England were sent away because of the war, but their plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean. There were no adults and the children attempted to keep it civilized, but they could not follow the rules and everything got chaotic on the island. The boys attempted to create a civilized society by creating rules, creating shelter and going hunting, but in the end they had fight to survive.

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.

Imagine this: You’re a young child, still relying on your parents for many things. One day you involved in a plane crash that leaves you and other young children stranded on an island. There is a considerable amount of fear associated with being placed in this unfortunate situation This is exactly what happened in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The group of young boys are stunned after their plane downs on a deserted island, where there concerns include fear the unknown wilderness and death. This fear creates a need for social order and power, which are main components of this piece of literature’s theme.

“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.

When a group of people is stranded on an island, it is very easy to lose hope, even if rescue is very close. People never know when something will happen, especially if no one knows to do it. In the young adult novel, Lord of the flies, William Golding writes the events that happen to a group of kids, with varying personalities, who are stranded on an island, and how their personalities affect the outcomes. A message saying to never give up is effectively shown leading up to the conclusion because the boys are very close to being rescued, but they do not know it, then the conch breaks, which symbolizes the loss of the social structure that has been developed. After that, Jack’s group becomes savage and hunts Ralph, but shortly after that, a naval officer appears.

“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.

In the allegorical and symbolic novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the boys are faced with many situations to explore their inner soul and new persona, and they do so by abandoning civilization and succumbing

In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of 90 boys are stranded on an uninhabitable island after their plane crashes. They must conquer the natural world together without the help of adults. The boys must face the reality that they may never get rescued unless they work together to survive the island. With the use of biblical allusions and symbols, Golding emphasizes the malevolence and corruption within the boys. It can be seen that the island is a symbol in itself; it symbolizes the Garden of Eden which connects back to the snake symbol.

In situations of disaster, chaos, or stress, some people recount the feeling that they lost “part of who they were” during the incident. Some people describe that “they will not be able to see the world the same again.” In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of boys gets thrown into this somewhat cliché, depressing situation of being stranded on an island. This situation arises stress, fear, and madness among the boys. This causes several characters in the book to experience a loss of their character throughout the book that leads to the creation of a new individual for each boy.

Suddenly isolated in paradise. No sign of civilization. No sign of rescue. Everything you once knew, gone. In Lord of the Flies, a novel concerning human nature, William Golding places a group of choir boys on an island without rules, adults, or supervision after their plane has crashed. One boy in particular progressively displays the effects of not having a society better than the rest: Jack Merridew. The lack of society on the island emanates through Jack as his actions and thoughts increasingly stray from that of society’s.

In the Novel lord of the flies, it is evident that the stranded school boys attempt to build a civilization. Throughout the building of this new civilization the most challenging factor is leading the school boys and keeping the young boys on track, which is hard enough let alone being on an island with no adults. This making their civilization fragile. A constant fear is looming around the boys, which in the end is what breaks this fragile society. A fear of many factors including; Being stranded forever possibly, A beast and starvation. These fears divide the group of school boys and blinds the boys from the most important goal, surviving till their rescue.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a philosophical novel, depicting the lives of boys stranded on an island. After their plane crashes, the kids are left on an uninhabited island in the beleaguered by the ocean. Their hopes of immediate rescue or escape are shattered as they realize there are no adults accompanying them on this foreign ground. Establishing an initial government, the children hope to maintain order within their society early on. Their inceptive regime adapts many times depending on the flexible perceptions of the kids. The government they once provided proves unsustainable and inevitably perishable as the boys end up dividing off into two factions. Along with their form of government, their

William Golding’s allegorical novel, Lord of the Flies, demonstrates the chaos in human nature with the loss of order and government. A group of boys is trapped on an island without an adult and are forced to survive using their own set of skills. Each boy struggles with the beast within, some boys are able to control it while other let it take over them completely. Golding illustrates the balance between order and chaos that each boy deals with and through this he displays the darkness that lies in the hearts of all humans.

“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.