Lust Of Savagery

Theme Statement: All civilized objects, activites, and souls, have inner savage which is held back by forced law, until power brings out the savage in everyone and everything.

In Lord f the Flies, a group of young choirboys are stranded on a deserted island after their plane was shot down and crashed, and the boys interact with many different types of elements that symbolize distinctive thoughts and ideas. In William Golding’s most famous novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding expresses law, intellect, and purity through his characters.

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In the beginning of the novel, a group of boys are stranded on an island resulting in the creation and decline of a civilization, and an uprising of savagery. Fear is an essential element of the story illustrated through foreshadowing, symbolism and diction. The young boys are terrified by a beast on the island. With fear rippling through the group, sheer chaos, savagery, a break in civilization, and a loss of innocence ensues.

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the two sides of himself, causing him to do terrible things and not even be aware of it. The theme

balance. The title of the book is given in a significant passage where we find our characters in a

Lord of the Flies shows a great amount of uncivilization through out the whole novel.

Take heed, this book will usher you deep into the minds of the characters. In the garden of good and evil, of war and peace, you will taste and see the agony of hurting hearts and broken minds.

This story shows that the evil around us can sometimes deceive us into wrongdoing if we do not trust our moral instincts or trust those in higher positions than us. William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, used his work to show the public that fear can lead people to destruction and evil ways if we do not attempt to control the beast within us. The way that Golding showed his audience this, was by carefully and thoughtfully placing symbolism throughout the novel and in each and every character.

Dictionary.com defines a savage as someone who is cruel, barbaric, untamed and ferocious. With this in mind, William Golding, the author of Lord of The Flies, depicts a world where civilization and savagery collide. While stranded on an island, a band of boys must decide if they can come together as a civilized group or if they will be torn apart and made savages of the island. Golding conveys civilization versus savagery through the decision making process of his characters, the remote island setting of where the boys are and through the idea that every human has an inner savage.

We begin to define the line between good and evil and the way in which it can corrupt human beings. The message portrayed that evil and the misuse of power is an ongoing matter, one in which could affect anyone and is partially an involuntary act – the evil animalistic behaviour becomes engraved into minds; like Goeth.

the theme is to question what the author was trying to relate to the reader.

As the novel progresses, the two major themes of love altering one’s soul and misfortune being

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