Lord of the Flies Essay

Being in a state of childhood innocence can mean life or death when fighting to survive. The boys in William Golding's Lord of the Flies become marooned on an island when their plane crashes while evacuating them from England during the war. As they begin to realize that they are going to have to work with what they have, they attempt to run the island in the same way as their society back home. Golding reveals an underlying theme of innocence and the loss of it through the young boys on the island. In order to reveal this theme, Golding highlights specific characteristics of the boys and brings attention to certain events throughout the survival process.

     When a group of children become stranded on a deserted island, the rules of society no longer apply to them. Without the supervision of their parents or of the law, the primitive nature of the boys surfaces. Consequently, the boys live without luxury that could have been obtained had they maintained a society on the island. Instead, these young boys take advantage of their freedom, and life as they knew it deteriorates. Lord of the Flies is influenced by the author's life and experiences. Golding's outlook on life changes, due to his heavy involvement in W.W.II, to his current philosophy that "The shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual, and not on any political system

In the story “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, he shows how the boys lost all innocence and civilization. The boys went from having innocent child minds to taking lives of other people, acting savage, and losing all civilization due to problems on the island. The boys had forgotten where they came from and became savage in order to survive; it was the need of survival that caused the loss of innocence among the boys.

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.

Even as two of the most civilized characters in Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Piggy still show their capability to act violently. As Ralph, Jack, and the other older boys return to their shelters from the Castle Rock—which is where they suspect that the beast would live—the boys encounter a boar and attempt to kill it. Soon after, the excitement turns into an act of hurting Robert, the pretend pig. While all the boys aggressively chant their ritual and fight for their chance to hurt Robert, “Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering” (Golding 114-115). In this scene, Ralph finds excitement in harming others and “was fighting to get near” for a chance to hurt

Finally, I am finished with middle school. Anxiously thinking about the first day of high school, I knew that it would be hectic and wild, but I was ecstatic. Of course, the night before I could not sleep. I lay awake dreaming about how my first day at John Paul II will go. How will it be meeting new people and seeing old friends from last year? Will high school be hard? Will I get lost? I kept thinking about the unknown and worst possible outcomes. My first day of high school was unexpected.

    Despite the progression of civilization and society's attempts to suppress man's darker side, moral depravity proves both indestructible and inescapable; contrary to culturally embraced views of humanistic tendencies towards goodness, each individual is susceptible to his base, innate instincts. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, seemingly innocent schoolboys evolve into bloodthirsty savages as the latent evil within them emerges. Their regression into savagery is ironically paralleled by an intensifying fear of evil, and it culminates in several brutal slays as well as a frenzied manhunt. The graphic consequence of the boys' unrestrained barbarity, emphasized by the

In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding depicts the sinful nature of man, “maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.” The book begins with a plane crash, which leaves a group of young boys stranded on an uninhabited island. Throughout the book, readers witness the boys losing their innocence while giving into savagery. By the end, most of the boys act upon their evil thoughts without a moment of hesitation. Although most people would think young boys couldn’t hurt anyone, Golding explains that even the most innocent people are inherently

     When everyone is more settled down, Ralph suggests that they elect a leader and chief. All the kids elect Ralph as the leader, mainly because he is the one who found the conch and the one who is holding it. We at once see how Jack greatly disapproves of the decision taken by the kids. He

William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies provides an account of negative behavior that boys can poses. Golding is overcome with the fear of knowing two ten-year old boys kidnapped and murdered a little boy known as James Bulger. He uses James Bulger’s murder as an example to show readers how boys are vicious. Golding has experienced and seen exactly how viciousness can overcome a person and transform them into evil. Golding describes the complexity of being evil and cruel to discuss the minds of the murders that killed the innocent two year old. His purpose is to inform us parents and family around us shape who we come to be. The first reason boys become vicious is fear of something or someone. If people are afraid by themselves, then they

Children are supposed to be innocent beings. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, they are the exact opposite. William Golding writes about how the children on the island are, at first, civil and everything is in order. As the story goes on, things start to slowly change. Many things start going wrong and the children start resorting to savagery. William Golding suggests that the longer a group is removed from civilization, the more savage their behaviour becomes.

Humans have a monster inside of them that is subdued by society, and if society is taken away, then that “monster” will consume them. This is true for most people, but not all humans are like that. One of the most notable humans to over come the “monster” is Simon, a character from the book “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. The story is set on an island in the Pacific Ocean. A plane full of British schoolboys crash lands on an island and they’re stranded there with no adults, no society, and no rules. Simon is one of the few characters that stay sensible and good throughout the story. He has a sixth sense about things happening around him, he is kindhearted, and he faints a lot which give the appearance of him being weak.

Lord of the Flies Analytical Essay The Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the Salem Witch Trials, Milgram's Experiment, Lord of the Flies written by William Golding and the Stanford Prison Experiment are all fictional and historical events that show the evil and cruelness deeply rooted within all of us. They all at one point showed that the corruption of power, chaos, and the absence of civilization, causes good people to go against their human nature and do cruel things. In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding creates a fictional island in which a group of boys that survive a plane crash try to create their own running and functioning civilization. As time passes and tension rises a rumor starts to spread among the “settlers” that a supposed beast is roaming the island. As the beast becomes more and more

A society is characterized by rules, roles and activities that identify the group of people it consists of. From birth and childhood we are taught how to behave by parents or careers, and into adulthood, the structure of society keeps people civilized through the use of laws and order. The loss of innocence is a running theme in the novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), in which William Golding uncovers to be a natural factor. Golding does not portray loss of innocence as something that was acted on the boys, but rather resulted naturally from their increasing openness to the innate evil and savagery that has always existed within them.

wanted to be leader and thought he was the best for the job. Already he had