Lord Of The Flies Moral Analysis

“Jack planned his new face. He made one cheek and one eye-socket white, then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw. . . He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger.” (pg. 63)

Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding shows his views of the inherent evil of humans. He shows how humans can be in such a savage state, practically mimicking the way of life of their prehistoric ancestors. He exemplifies this with acts of carnage carried on by the young stranded children. It all started with a slight urge to hunt down a pig and then continued on to murdering another human being. Golding shows his views best at the end of the book with the boys being rescued by a Navy crew, which would go on to war it self.

“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.

Children all fear the dark because of what it may contain as darkness the the manifestation of the unknown. Many people fear the unknown rather than embrace it because fearing the unknown provides them with a sense of control regardless of whether or not it is an illusion. This is shown in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, with Jack who uses the concept of the Beast to gain support from the littluns and eventually rises to power within the group of boys.

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

Consequently, he uses the need of meat to rationalize his savage behavior, although there is an abundance of fresh fruit. The need for this excuse is obviated when Jack starts to apply a mask of paint in order to liberate himself from "shame and self-consciousness" (64). Moreover, this self-deception enables him to become an "awesome stranger" (63), capable of wholly abandoning any sense of morality or ethics.

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

How ethical nature of the individual is explained throughout the Lord of the Flies and as civilization and savagery unfolds there is a lot of conflict. The story revolves around a group of stranded pre-teen boys who find it difficult to keep order within themselves. They struggle with a “beast” and fear of the unknown and the fear that they may never be rescued. They struggle with finding a balance in powers and when it's time to hunt and be serious which leads to them as a group falling apart. This book shows that even if you try to have a stable government whether it works or not will depend of the character of the people in the society.

Most people are guilty of being followers of others at some point or another. The characters in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies seem to disregard their own personal feelings and follow others’ ideas unless an idea seems morally right. The boys in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, especially the “littluns,” become brainwashed by the idea of this beast that lives on the island, which leads them to follow the evil leader Jack, rather than doing what they think is right.

“You inherit your environment just as much as your genes”(Rich). Having the capability of choosing right from wrong is a blessing. But what would happen if people were forced into a dangerous situation and had to do anything to survive? Would their beliefs change? What would push them to the edge? Would their changes be the effect of either their environment or biological factors? In the novel “The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, adolescent boys find themselves,without adult supervision, stranded on an island when their plane crashes down during warfare. The boys savage and immoral behavior, shown at the end of the novel, is the outcome of their environment. The boys situation drives them to have a change of morals, change their way

Jack is the epitome of the forces of evil and the lust for power and killing, while the mask helps them to achieve those actions by adding a sense of anonymity and safeness to them and their actions. Although I would initially agree with Golding’s thought that human nature is naturally chaotic, I disagree and would say that some souls are positive, and that little bit can be enough to turn others around. Jack was, to me, the most interesting character in this

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is renowned for demonstrating how violence can become the core of any unorganized civilization. In the beginning of the novel, a group of British schoolboys become stranded on a uninhabited island. As they begin to develop their own hierarchy and social structure, the boys begin to realize that they cannot be equal citizens of their newfound land. As a result, the boys split up into different social and hierarchical groups and begin to oppose each other. As one mature character states in the novel, “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages” (Golding 79)? Throughout the novel, the boys are seen switching between different groups and inflicting violent acts on each other as they become people that do not

Even though we live behind a wall of false purity, our true reflection will always show this evil because it is in our nature to be barbaric animals. That is why in my drawing Jack’s reflection in the water is showing his savage nature. This consists of him in his underwear, for when he hunts and shows his barbaric nature is is often naked to the waist (Golding 109). The mask on his face is also worn during these actions, for it symbolizes the masking of his true self allowing savagery to take over as his prominent identity as shown in the quote “The chief's blush was hidden by the white and red clay.

“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.