Lord Of The Flies: Savagery

Though it is true that Ralph does not escape the darkness festering inside the boys on the island, his savagery is what ultimately saves his life in the end.

When a group of boys are without authoritative figures on an island, as suggested in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, their human nature influences their evolution of savagery due to the lack of consequences. In the absence of any established society, boys choose hunting as a fundamental action of mankind and resort to killing for the pleasure of it without reason. As excuses to execute violence, the boys on the island create the idea of a beast manifested from their fears; oppose Ralph’s ideas for hope of rescue; and find disturbing satisfaction in killing. As a result, the boys’ savagery impacts their decisions on how to survive on the island.

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” Mentioned Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Savages reflect a fierce, violent, and animal like behaviour. Lord of the Flies, the novel by William Golding, illustrates that blood thirst, loss of sympathy and anger towards others contributes to savagery.

In the novel Lord of the Flies, all the boys on the island interpret the beast and what it represents to them in very different ways. This novel was written in 1954 by William Goulding. It takes place during World War II and is a commentary on the savagery that secretly lies within everyone. This essay will explore this savagery which manifests through this beast, and what this beats means to the

In William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies, the reader is exposed to an island of boys and what happens to them slowly over the course of the book. There is a theme of the constant power struggle between the boys civilization and their inner savagery. This is shown through the boys as their time on the island grows greater and greater, especially through an individual named Jack Merridew.

Humankind has savage tendencies that are shrouded by civilization or savagery gets smothered out by order. Without laws and order humankind would resort to chaos as their new order which is evident by the book, “Lord of the Flies.” In “Lord of the Flies”, a quiet choirboy named Roger is often seen bullying the “littluns or the youngest boys on the island. It seems without the restraints of civilization, which is what everyone realizes in chapter 1, he knew he could do whatever he wanted. Roger was the one who dropped a boulder on Piggy causing him to fall off a cliff. Roger also tortures Sam and Eric after Piggy’s death, because he wanted to know where Ralph was. Roger has this inner dark side in him, which is the reason for why he bullies,

The boys start out on the island as ordinary, civilized, young men, and transform into accidental killers. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of twelve year old boys, marooned on a desert island, slowly deteriorate into what can be classified as savages. Power is abused, starting from the way only the older boys have it to the way Jack uses his power for his personal ambitions. Their fragile society does not stay a society for long, and it soon descends into chaos , with everyone fighting each other. The regress from a group of boys with some sort of society to total anarchy is caused by the fight over control, loss of identity, and the lack of rules.

To have no one in charge is a great way to live. Having no authority creates an unimaginable freedom. However in a world of freedom, we have to have rules and obey them. After all, we are not savages (Golding 42). In The Lord of the Flies, savagery poses a challenge to civility through the following people and symbols: facepaint, the conch, and Jack.

In William Golding’s famous novel, Lord of the Flies two competing impulses, civility and savagery are shown to exist in all human beings. The main theme of the novel depicts the problems that society has to maintain a structured government within all human beings. These events show that children are not innocent as they are savage by nature. Without adult guidance, the entire spectrum of this dark side inherent in them would be manifested in full force. In the novel, Lord of the Flies Ralph’s inability to sustain civility within the boys is lost, therefore he continues to fight against the elements of the island so that Jack’s savagery does not interfere with his motives.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies several young boys are trapped on an island with no adults. The boys elect officials to make decisions for them however, tension and issues with authority cause sever damage to the new civilization, boys die, friendships are lost and ultimately the test of a person's true character arises. This novel displays the conflict between human impulse towards savagery and the basic rules of a civilization which are designed to lower the chances of conflict and gain unity with one another. Golding stresses the negative outcome of savagery as a distinction of civilization.

Savagery is like blood within human being. Like savagery, blood is always within humans beings with or without their consciousness. When the body is injured, blood oozes slowly like savagery is revealed in a favorable condition. The author of the Lord of the Flies, William Golding, believes that nature state of human is full of savagery and evils. In the Lord of the Flies, Jack is a dynamic character who symbolizes the id.

The law is something always rational to control them. Ralph and Piggy are the last two civilized people on the island. Jack leads his company hunting and having fun everyday. They have no rules, and they painted their face like savages. They even refuse to get the

Comedian Bill Cosby once said, “Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.” Coming from such an iconic comedian, this humorous statement, has a unique concept behind it. The idea of creating a civilization with rules and regulations is not an idea created in recent time. Creating a civilization can be dated back to thousands of years ago. Composing a set of laws, is no doubt one of the most difficult tasks to complete, and it requires the utmost leadership skills along with intelligence. In Lord of the Flies, a group of pre-teens have found themselves stranded on an island with absolutely no sign of adults. Far away from any civilization,

“There are too many people, and too few human beings.” (Robert Zend) Even though there are many people on this planet, there are very few civilized people. Most of them are naturally savaged. In the book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, boys are stranded on an island far away, with no connections to the adult world. These children, having no rules, or civilization, have their true nature exposed. Not surprisingly, these children’s nature happens to be savagery. Savagery can clearly be identified in humans when there are no rules, when the right situation arouses, and finally when there is no civilization around us.

In the book, Lord of the Flies, William Golding demonstrates the true evil human nature through children that are abandoned on a desert island. In the novel, Golding shows how that the children can not organize themselves, which represents the true chaos of our civilization without leadership. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the boys to depict anarchy and the downfall of civilization by emphasizing the lack of structure amongst the children.