Lord Of The Flies Descriptive Analysis

“In a 2005 survey about gay bullying statistics, teens reported that the number two reason they are bullied is because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender expression”, according to bullyingstatistics.org. It has also been shown that those who are bullied themselves often go on to bully others because it is all they know, or that bullying covers up their own shames. The character Jack Merridew in Lord of the Flies is not evil like many would argue, but rather is ashamed of the fact that he is gay and closeted. This is supported by the hunter’s casting off of religion and government, Jack’s inability to hunt unless in front of other boys, and the beast as a symbol.

 Golding's motives for choosing the island setting for the novel, Lord of the Flies was to have the characters isolated, where the laws of their governments could not reach them.  The boys on the island represented a microcosm of world society.    Golding chose children because they have not yet been fully conditioned by society to understand right from wrong, and thus are guided by their instinct and what is inherent within them.  Golding uses a great deal of symbolism throughout the novel.  Different characters provide different symbols.  Jack is a symbol of savagery and anarchy.  Golding relates the inherent evil

“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.

Humans develop in societies with rules, order and government, but humans are not perfect, they have many deficiencies so do the societies they live in. When a group of schoolboys land on a tropical island, Ralph takes on the role of leader by bringing all of the boys together and organizing them. He first explains “There aren’t any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves.”(p.33), this brings up the question if the boys will have prosperity or will they succumb to the evil on the island. At first the young boys start being successful and civilized, but chaos soon overruns them and evil starts to lurk over the island.The fictional story of the group of British schoolboys stranded on an island and the decisions they make, relates back

Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. It is about british schoolboys who are stranded on an island after their plane is shot down. They are on the island with no adult supervision. Their group is civilized but turns to savagery. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the characters of Ralph, Jack, and Roger to symbolize that there are violence, evil, savagery, and good that exist in every society.

Although many things are stated outright in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the book is rich with symbolism and subtext. The story starts with British school boys being stranded on an island after escaping a threat of nuclear war. The boys elect fair-haired Ralph as their leader, but Jack, a fiery choirmaster of some of the boys, is jealous and the story quickly goes downhill from there, leading to aggression, mayhem, and murder. Throughout the novel, there is also a mysterious and imaginary beast that haunts the minds of the younger boys. Lord of the Flies has many details, many of which are symbols or have implied meaning. One of the most important examples of subtext is Simon, the strange, ethereal boy who aligns himself with

Ralph’s courage breaks down when the fears of death begin to overwhelm his mind. Ralph and Piggy begin to detach themselves from civilization when they decide to keep relations with the savages. Piggy and Ralph are “eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society”(Golding 152) until the savages begin to act like animals. The savages “screamed, struck, bit, tore”(Golding 153) like a predator on weak, bloodied Simon until he died. The savages commit this crime because they are afraid of the unknown and believe death is the remedy to this fear. With the emotions of death swirling around in Ralph’s head, his mind comes back to civilization to exclaim, “that was murder”(Golding 156). Ralph becomes the only biggun capable of understanding that darkness has plagued the boys, and the fear it brings with it, making the boys more and more detached from society. Even Piggy justifies the murder of Simon, showing he too has become corrupted. The fear of being a murderer finally surfaces in Ralph’s mind and he cries, “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home”(Golding 157). Ralph has began to lose courage and this is the first time Ralph is shown to be terrified by the fear of what the boys have become. Golding adds this to show

This demonstrate the change of Ralph when he first arrived at the island he was a confident boy who believed that his father who is in the navy will come and save them and the meantime he will enjoy the island, which he then at the end he found himself. By the change of it when he thought that being honest with everyone one the island was the good thing but over the course of the story he was then to realized that wasn't true. Also at the end the book when Ralph sees the officer, his sudden realized that at the cost of his innocence he had taken part of one of the boy called Simon death, also the witnesses of Piggy death and the realization the piggy he never bother to found out his name was actually the only he could called his friend. Also

When Jack left and Simon died, all Ralph had was Piggy and he learned to like Piggy a little better. He listened to Piggy’s council and always considered it carefully. He was also friends with the twins Sam and Eric. Ralph was crushed towards the end of the book when Sam and Eric were taken by Jack and Piggy was killed. Ralph also admired Jack, but thier friendship did not last long, partly because they were both a bit competitive. In the end, Jack became the enemy and became blood thirsty. Ralph had to run for his life in order to escape Jack and his small army of hunters. Then, while Ralph was running away from Jack, he ran into a naval officer and his rescue came at

In this quote from Ralph, which appears at the middle of the story; Ralph seems very mature as he has a philosophical moment. He considers how the horrors from the island have changed the other kids from innocent british boys into ‘savages’. It is remarkable the change in all of the kids as they changed mentally , reflecting these changes on their exterior as

The characters start to think hunting and killing is better than order. “ Which is better to have law and agree; or to hunt and kill (Golding 164). When the boys start to think killing is better than law that shows that they getting further from civilization. Ralph looks back and realizes that they have lost all civilization and have turned on each other. “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding 202). Ralph is sad about what they have become and misses home. For instance if the boys are disobeying their own rules that shoes that they will become

After finding out the true beast, Ralph finally begins to cry about everything that had happened while on the island. He discovered new ideas about human nature and faced the evil in others firsthand. He watched as law and order ceased to exist and the other boys turned into savages, losing all sense of civilized behavior. He discovered the real beast; darkness, savagery, and evil inside human

“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.