Essay on Lord of the Flies

For a human society to take place, an order is required. From order, comes leadership and authority. Humans create rules in order to protect and look after their society. At times, these rules may fall apart, possibly leading to chaos and destruction. William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies,” demonstrates to its readers that the conch shell symbolized leadership and authority, as the characters exposed their inner savages.

Evil: A noun meaning profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity. Everyone has a little bit of evil in them, but it’s up to that person if they want to show it or not. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of boys show the evil within themselves while being stranded on an island. Because of the situation that has been thrust upon them, they soon discover the true evil they are capable of. In the book, the boys show evil through their lust for power, the behavior that the boys express, and their murderous actions.

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.

While Roger only threw rocks at the littluns to miss in the beginning of the book, Roger becomes more violent and demonstrates that he is capable of committing murder by releasing a rock that kills Piggy. Moreover, the conch—which is the symbol of order and civilization in Lord of the Flies—“exploded into a thousand white fragments.” Without the conch and its reminder of order and civilization, the boys become more savage and all show that they have the ability to kill. Regardless of their background as innocent choir boys, these violent events where Jack and the boys in his tribe bring a cruel end to a sow and Piggy show that all humans have a capability for brutality, despite their background.

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.

Jack and the others know about the beast but are scared of it and don’t know what to do about it. Jack boasts,  “I cut the pig’s throat said jack proudly and yet twitched as he said it.”(69). Jack did not feel any remorse for the pig. The author explains jack’s state of mind when he says, “His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it taken away its life like a long satisfying drink. He spread his arms wide. “You should have seen the blood”.”(70) this show jack becoming a little mad.. Ralph has come to talk to jack about stealing piggy's glasses. “Jack made a rush and stabbed at Ralph's chest with his spear.... They were chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring ”(177). Jack is angry at ralph. Next “After Piggy's death and the conch being destroyed See That's what you'll get I meant that There isn't a tribe for you anymore The conch is gone” (181). Jack has killed or stole ralph tribe members. In the real life people use things and money to get people to do what they

(Golding 29) The quote reveals that because of Jack and his barbaric personality, the act of disregarding the meeting rules shows the conch’s loss of power, which is vital to keep order among the boys in the island. This inevitably relates to the theme, that the lack of civilization leads to savagery. Furthermore, Jack made everyone believe that the whoever uses the conch must be stopped, for he is against everything it represents. This belief is shown in a scene of the Lord of the Flies, “He put the conch to his lips, and began to blow.

The conch to the boys is like the crown to a king. Whoever blows the conch is the one who leads the group. The boys decided on civilization over savagery when they chose Ralph to be their leader instead of Jack. Ralph wants a happy civilized way of surviving, but Jack on the other hand believes hunting and savaging to be the best way to survive on the island. Even the choir dreadfully raised their hands for Jack to lead, they were outnumbered by the people outside the choir who chose Ralph as the leader. From the beginning Ralph tries to establish a peaceful place on the island for the boys.

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

Simon’s spirituality has given him the ability to feel one with nature and find deeper meanings. Although the terrible events on the island have influenced the boys, Simon was able to rise above evil and remain his innate self. However, savagery and civilization together had destroyed Simon’s spiritual truth.

Besides in the insufficient fraction left of Ralph's tribe, the importance of the conch ceases completely: "…the conch doesn't count on this side of the island--" (150). Jack limits the power of the conch to only being operative on one part of the island. Since as a leader Jack radiates supremacy, most of the boys follow his views on the conch. Due to the decrease in the considerate thoughts the boys have of the conch the civility in the boys decreases as well. Even though a little earlier in the finale the conch still holds some power, the conch soon breaks in the pursuit of killing Piggy: "…the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist" (181) When the conch crushes so does all its power, importance, and symbolic meaning.

Lord of the Flies is about a group of kids that survived a deadly plane crash that killed the pilot. They start off by making rules so they have some order, but they slowly start to go against each other. They start having fights and eventually, a small group of the kids end up killing one of the other kids. In addition, the group of kids that are the hunters kill a pig, cut off its head, and impaled it on a wooden spear/stick. Because of all the flies and insects that were covering the head, the one who killed the pig was named Lord of the

William Golding as a child was a very extraordinary and rebellious kid. He did not like to take baths until the dirt started to make him feel uncomfortable. At an early age, he would think of girls as superior beautiful beings which was a very wonderful way of thinking at an early age. Golding was already aware of his own emotions and ego at the age of six which made him an intelligent person. However, Golding as a kid was very violent and disruptive.

Jacks priority is to hunt, that is all it is, hunt. Ralph talks about being rescued and Jack just says “[He’d] like to catch a pig first” (53). He doesn't care about being rescued he wants to be the first one to hunt a pig. Everyone is talking about the beastie and Jack mentions that if there was one “[Jack would] hunt it and kill it” (36). Jacks solution to everything is violence, so if there is anything living he would want to hunt it because that is his main priority.

<b>Essay Question Two</b><br>Lord of the Flies opens with the introduction of a small group of English boys that are marooned on an island. The plane was evacuating them from atomic war-ridden England. This is a suiting time for this novel to be written- it shows how savage even little boys can be, and that adults are no different, with their wars and cruelties. A small society is set up, but Jack starts his own rule, contrary to Ralph's leadership. The boys turn on each other, eventually killing Simon in the middle of a hunting dance, and smashing a boulder on Piggy. The choice of "young English lads" is perfect- if, perhaps, "foreign ruffians" were chosen, a stereotypical person might expect cruel and savage behavior. On the contrary,