Loss Of Civilization In Lord Of The Flies

In William Goldings book, Lord of the Flies there are many different causes and effects of the societal collapse. First, they had no emotional support. They did not have the parent love that they really needed. Second, they did not have not have adult supervision to keep them in order. Lastly, there was a lot of evil that went through the island. The boys did not mention God one time while they were on the island.

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.

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.

Will Durant once said, ”Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the idea of civilization being destroyed is portrayed. In this book, a group of British schoolboys are stranded on an island left alone to survive. Each character reacts to the isolation of civilization differently. The character, Ralph, is the leader figure who tries to preserve civilization among the boys with his numerous characteristics.

“That world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away” (82).With the loss of organization and the death of many children, the boys start losing sight of a civilized way of life. In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding tells of young English boys who become stranded on a desert island after surviving a horrific plane crash. Golding uses the island and Piggy’s spectacles to illustrate how things that once brought life can bring destruction.

He explains how communities band together and eventually crumble in Lord of the Flies using the plot, characters, writing, and style as allegorical representations of the destruction and savagery he witnessed in World War II. Golding attempts to convey to the reader the idea that civilizations do not thrive, humanity is evil at its core, and that societies are catastrophic. Golding’s novel is an allegory for unsuccessful societies and how those societies bring out humanity’s beastlike side. Allegories in general allow readers to extract from works of literature deeper meaning, guided by authors as they attempt to prove a point. Allegories are written for a singular meaning which cannot be an element in the novel itself; it is a useful and effective tool in literature and it is advantageous for authors to use to convey a thoughtful message to the

Best put by Virginia Woolfe, “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others”. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a coming of age tale, documenting the change from boys to men in its most primitive form. After their plane crashes on a remote island, a group of schoolboys find themselves without any adults and take it upon themselves to create their own utopia. With time, there once ideal civilization transgresses into a time of fear and barbaric actions. The common thread that holds the story together is the age old comparison of civilization and savagery. Lord of the Flies demonstrates the retrogression from the civilized school boy to the primitive man, exemplifying the theme of civilization vs savagery

In the novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding, a plane crashes on an island and a group of young English boys are forced to fend for themselves as well as each other in hope of rescue. In this novel Golding makes several comments on the tendencies of man when in the absence of a social structure. Throughout the book, Golding tells the reader about human nature. When humans completely give in to human nature, chaos erupts. Through the use of the fire, the beast, and Piggy’s glasses William Golding shows how human nature slowly pulls away from civilization when there is no social structure.

Civilization today has become almost completely reliant on technology. Almost the entire planet is connected by phone lines, roads, air travel, or the internet. People converse with others thousands of miles away through modern connections, watch live broadcasts of news in foreign lands, or talk on wireless phones by use of satellites. We are governed by laws designed to protect us. We live in heated homes with fresh water and electricity. We commute to work by car or mass transit. We live by rules, values, and ideals that keep the peace. Our world is organized, convenient, and technologically advanced. What would happen if suddenly our civilization

William Golding’s novel the Lord of the Flies shows man’s wild side. Critics claim that the depressing story of boys losing their innocence is attempting to convey that mankind is evil, and underlying evil will always be present. William Golding told a truly marvelous tale of boys, survival and morals. In the beginning of the story, the boys all co-operated and were filled with hope of getting home to England. While time wears on, the boys become less tame; they become savages obsessed with killing.

In Lord of the Flies, the civilized world and the savage world clash. Some of the visual components that I used in the visual piece are, fire, huts , a spear, rocks , and a coconut shell filled with clay. These symbols represent the difference between the savage and the civil world. My focal point would be the hut because this was one of the early stages of the group of turing savage. The boys did were not co-operating with each other. The huts also represent civilization because the huts represent a makeshift home. I placed the hut in the middle to show the beginning of the disappearance of the civilized world. I drew a campfire with smoke coming out of it. The fire represents the savage world because the fire itself can be used to inflict

In every book, movie, television show, and in the real world people are faced with difficult decisions that alter the course of their lives. For example “The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach”(45). The characters try to solve the problem of what is more important, having a place to live like a put together society or hunting for meat to satisfy the cravings. Golding communicates the idea of civilization versus savagery through the harsh process of making decisions. For instance when a group comes together with different opinions especially young boys, such as the characters, for everyone to agree upon what needs to be done to survive is incredibly challenging. On the other hand a civilized group, young

The decay of civilization on the island is virtually gone by the end of the novel do to the fact there is no order for the boys to follow, boys having strong animal instinct that take over their minds and them being to young to understand how to keep their civilized behavior in check. Lord of the Flies shows us how young boys act when adults are not around telling them what to do. It is only at the end of the novel once they are rescued they turn into little kids again like when they first arrived on the island. In the novel it also shows what the human race would be like if there was no rules or laws and everything in between. When a young boy is put into a place without adults he will start doing what they want weather its right or not.

After finish reading the novel lord of the Flies, I can find that there are more than one theme. In this novel, the author tends to describe several important themes, such as children’s innocent and violent, and also includes the truth of humanity. However, the theme about civilization and chaos keep the deep depression for me. In this composition, the theme civilization and chaos will be discussed and this composition tries to make clear how the theme--civilization and chaos is developed in the novel.

Golding’s portrayal of the main characters among the group of boys contributes to the allegorical quality of Lord of the Flies,