Rules and laws are necessary in order to maintain a civilized society because absence of law provides an open opportunity to go against the general foundation of the society. It goes against one's own conscience. The fear of punishment is absent which contributes to the growing confidence of the wrongdoer that he or she can get away with anything. This disturbs the balance of our civilized society encouraging more and more people to take on this habit. For example, in Lord of the Flies there are no adults on the island at all, so Jack feels that he can do whatever he wants without the fear of any consequences. Eventually, the ‘littleuns’ take on his bad habits. Ralph and the others try to establish rules on the island, the first one being: …show more content…
Rules can also have an effect on our personality and behavior. Social roles are the parts people play as members of a social group. With each social role you adopt, your behavior changes to fit the expectations that both you and others have of that particular role. Throughout every day you play many different social roles that all have different rules. Examples of social roles you may play during the day are daughter, student, sister, worker, friend, etc. All of these roles have different rules that affect your behavior as a person. Some social roles Ralph took on in Lord of the Flies are friend, leader, and protector. Ralph was chosen to lead the group until they were rescued because there were no adults to take on the traditional role of caregiver/leader, he had to be a friend and stick up for Piggy when he was made fun of , and he had to protect and ensure the ‘littleuns’ that they were safe when they thought that there was a beast. In Lord of the Flies the text states, “Every hand outside the choir except Piggy's was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air. Ralph counted. ‘I'm chief then.’”(Golding, page 13) This texts shows how Ralph was chosen to be the leader of the
In the real world today, we have laws and rules like at school or out in the city or wherever you are. It helps us to stay on track and to keep everyone safe. Like in the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, they have rules and controls that keep them safe and to make sure that everyone is the same and no one is different. They protect the people and secure them from harm's way. The rules are made so that people can all live in peace and not have to worry about anything going wrong.
The character that I chose to track while reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding is Ralph. Ralph is kind hearted, intelligent and had lots of common sense. During his adventure, he was friendly toward Piggy and was always there for him. When Ralph was in the mountains, he always warned Jack, Simon, and Piggy to not do what they’re trying to do. For example, Ralph once warned Jack, Simon and Piggy about the beast. Ralph also had a lot of intelligence because he always chose what was right as a leader. During the adventure, Ralph had always put other people in front of himself, instead of fretting only about himself. The roles that Ralph play in the book is leadership, Ralph is the main character and he’s the one who makes most of the decisions in the group. Ralph interacts with his group through common sense in order to make the right decisions for his group most of the times. Ralph became compassionate as he
People always seem to fit themselves into boxes. They try to label themselves according to what they want or believe themselves to be. People find their desires in either people or materialistic things. People all have their desires, and they all try to accept what they are. In 2016, people tend to find their desires in the world around them. After, they conform to the world and ideas around them. Although members of society claim to be independent, people depend on others' opinions.
William Golding s novel Lord of the Flies significantly symbolizes characters, objects and the setting to represent our world as a whole. Golding uses those symbols to make the island similar to society and to show the difference between living in a civilised society and savagery. The novel takes place on an island during World War II, this is significant since the isolation forms a sort of civilization and community, a sort of microcosm to the real world and to human civilization.
Society is a man made system that allows humans to have an orderly life, and it is important because of its provision of betterment of the world. It is essential for the world to have an organizational system like society, considering that we would struggle to better our lives without someone to take charge or lead us. Feral children are children who lack exposure to society and its factors. They do not experience society like most people do. Because of this, they tend to act wild and abnormal in comparison to normal social standards. In the book Lord of the Flies, the boys stranded on an island lack an organized society. Without society and social skills, it would be hard to find a way to better lives. We would not feel a need to fix the
In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Ralph is the first to become leader of the other boys and sets the rules. When Ralph becomes leader he states, “We’ll have rules!” He cried excitedly. “Lots of rules! (Golding 33). This shows that Ralph took the position as leader and he creates a mini democracy so that everyone's thoughts
Society has rules to protect us. Without the laws people can perform unfair acts against us. The laws can be broken but that comes with consequences. The consequences
“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. ”(91) In the novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, tells a story about a group of English boys who are stranded on an inhabited island. They attempt to create their own society in order to sort things out while waiting for rescue. However, as time pass by, their civilized society starts to fall.
A constant fear developers into savagery, causes insanity, and results in success. This is a very unusual sequence of events. It is not expected that savagery would lead to success. However, in the book Lord of the Flies, it does. In this book, only one, of two attempts to create a society is successful, this is Jack’s savage society in which he used the boys’ fear to control and manipulate them.
contains remarks and observation about the society. Golding has employed social allegory through Ralph to put across some important themes in the novel. Ralph is chosen as the leader of a group of boys stranded in the deserted island at the beginning of the novel. The author has portrayed Ralph as the representative of civilization, order, and productive leadership. Unlike most of the boys concerned with playing and having fun, he concentrates on building up huts and working on how the group would be rescued from the island. Ralph has power and influence over the other boys at the beginning, but he faces opposition later
“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” The posed question is if society is controlled by people, or are people controlled by society. Some may argue that society is controlled by people, but if you step into the light is that really the case. If you were to look at society, really look at it, who is being controlled. Its not society itself, sure people affect the directions society turns, but that is a small group of people who represent societies movement and trends. People do not really affect what society truly is. Society is, as said before, a mental concept, the popular, important figures in the world are the physical representation. The world is full of unique individuals, although everyone is under influence of society. It is subconscious, but always there. These next paragraphs will express how society controls people by elaborating on three main ideas that show up in the book Lord of The Flies. Society controls our actions, we learn from society and use it to try to be in control of others, and it is always there and so we have no idea what to do apart from it.
A frequent theme in literature is the conflict between the individual and society. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Piggy struggles the most out of all the boys with the society on the island. He is not used to surviving in the wilderness, hunting, and taking care of himself with no help from grown ups. He attempts many times to change the violent island society to the orderly society they had back home in England, but the others refuse listen.
Imagine if someone you loved was shot. You call the cops, but they say that there is nothing that can be done because there are no laws saying they have to punish the criminal. If there were no laws, criminal could get away with crimes like that repeatedly without any punishment. This is a prime example of why laws are needed to keep society in order. The idea of rules in society has been around since King Hammurabi created the first set of laws in 1760 B.C. Egyptian civilizations created laws so that their society would last longer than other civilizations because people would respect their morals. William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, made a statement about human nature, saying that, “Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.” He had a theory that
Rules and laws are set in place for the protection and safety of all individuals. They are there to help deter any immoral and irresponsible behavior that may occur. Rules and laws are also established to help prevent chaos. Without such guidelines for people to follow, we would become nothing more than disorderly and destructive human animals.
A perfect society. Something we long and hope for, and work towards to achieve for our future. We picture this society in many different ways, including things like equality, no poverty, and everyone being taken care of among many things. However, we have not become this perfect society yet. This makes you start to wonder, what is preventing this perfect society that we all share a vision of? The perfect society would contain things like equality, happiness, and unity. However, these things are counteracted by greediness, other’s misery, and the fight for power.