Nature Vs Nurture Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Jack and Ralph were motivated for their actions in different ways. Ralph was motivated strictly by the hope of being rescued. Even though he called meetings and tried to organize the group of boys to do simple things like build huts or keep the fire going so they could be rescued or survive, the boys would go play or bathe. Ralph said to Jack ‘"And they keep running off, you remember the meeting? How everyone was going to work hard until the shelters were finished?" (51) The only person who would listen or work with Ralph was Simon. Unfortunately, the other boys continued to ignore Ralph's leadership throughout the novel and eventually all turned to Jack for leadership. Jack was motivated by hunting and killing. His obsession for this began when he was frustrated with himself for not killing the pig in the first chapter: ‘"He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy" (29).There would actually be no mercy from Jack from that point on. Eventually all of the boys, except for Ralph and Piggy, turned to Jack's evil ways, even to the point of participating in the killing of Simon. Effectively, Ralph was motivated by the hope of rescue for his actions and Jack motivated by bloodlust.

Humans are shaped through nurture in a way they their experiences and what people tell them could change the person that they are. Meaning, if a person experiences a bad situation, this might affect how they act from now on. One book that showed this scenario was the Lord of the Flies written by William Golding. Golding wrote about a main character named Ralph who was left on an island with a bunch of boys and barely any supplies. On this island, he was first elected leader and then everything went downhill from there. This character was put through countless exhausting troubles and complications during the the story. Relying on the theme that humans are shaped through nurture, the book proved that Ralph did change because his experiences showed that he lost his innocence and his leadership qualities were diminished.

Understanding why it is that people act a certain way is no easy feat. It is commonly believed that people are born good, a blank canvas that is ready to absorb from its surroundings. Yet, no matter what way a canvas is painted it will always end up the same. Everyone has base instincts that are difficult to control. These instincts can be symbolized by the savage that we all have within us.

A main reason why the boys on the Island slowly turned savage was because of their lack to follow the laws and rules. People throughout history have had a clearly communicated and fairly enforced set of laws that they have to follow to be able to maintain a civilization. In the novel, Ralph and Piggy knew that there needed to be a baseline of rules to make sure everything flowed correctly on the island. Unfortunately, the other boys on the Island could not comprehend the need for these rules. The others could not come to terms and eventually determined that they would rather live in a rules-free atmosphere. When Simon is talking to the lord of the flies there was foreshadowing when he said “... We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don’t try it…”(Golding 144). The younger boys were unable to understand the needs of a functioning community and acted as if their new society was

Did you know that Nature vs. Nurture has be debated for years, but is still unsolved. Nature vs. Nurture is a debate about if the choices we make and how we act is determined on our environment, nature, or we were raised this way, nurture. I think Nature is represented in Lord of the Flies because of the DNA evidence, the fact that the boys were raised to be civil, and their ancestors instincts.

Both Ralph and Piggy show who they really are on the inside, when reasoning with Jack and his hunters. In this chapter, both Ralph and Piggy show that they are caring and kind people, who want to do what’s best for all the people on the island. I believe that Ralph and Piggy do not care that most of the kids on the island abandoned them and went to Jack, they just want everyone to work with each other and get rescued.

Jack starts to focus more on the pig hunt that anything else, making him upset with killing the pig. After he succeeded in killing the pig, he leads the others of his tribe into thinking it’s okay to kill. Roger is one other character that is greatly affected by this. When Ralph and Piggy go to look for Piggy’s stolen glasses they have conflict with the thief's (Jack's tribe).

Jack is beginning to seem menacing and powerful to the children because he challenges Ralph’s power, and he questions why the rules are in place. Piggy fears for his life because he is afraid Jack will kill him to get to Ralph. After viewing this behavior and being talked down to, the younger children fear how the older boys would act toward them, and began to fear the evil that was being revealed inside of them. Jack decides he is done following Ralph’s orders. He attempt to sway the boys’ opinion of Ralph by saying that Ralph “thinks you’re cowards, running away from the boar and the beast” (126).

While many believe that we are both nature and nurture, some still takes sides and argue whether we are nature or nurture. The topic nature vs. nurture has always been debated. Nature is our inborn abilities and traits, what we are born with. Nurture take the traits we have and mold them as we mature and learn new things. Scientists argue if who we are is shaped by our genes and/or the environment. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding it focuses on a group of boys stranded on an island and their attempt to govern and take care of themselves. Most of the boys become savages. The nurture theory impacts us everyday in our environment. Everyone cares about what others think of them. One follows the current fashion. They try to be like others and start acting like them.

Ralph and Jack and their ideas to survive are very different compared to Piggy and his ideas. These show how Jack and Ralph are still not able to understand that they are on a island and they will eventually die in the future, and when told that they do not care. Throughout the story, Jack is very aggressive towards others and likes to be rude to others purposefully. However, Ralph is rude but he does not he is rude towards people, and he does not know what to do as leader, survival wise. These characteristics show how they are not suited for leader because they do not take suggestions from others and also are rude to other which creates a biased opinion towards a suggestion.

During the duration of their time on the island the boy’s connection with humanity declined to a level to which they dehumanized themselves completely. Jack the opposing leader, presents another problem with his bloodlust. His unceasing hunger for a kill keeps him oblivious to the fire and the possibility of being rescued. His actions distract the others from the main goal which is to be rescued. Ralph and Piggy must work together to try and maintain the little order that is left.

The boys start out on the island as ordinary, civilized, young men, and transform into accidental killers. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of twelve year old boys, marooned on a desert island, slowly deteriorate into what can be classified as savages. Power is abused, starting from the way only the older boys have it to the way Jack uses his power for his personal ambitions. Their fragile society does not stay a society for long, and it soon descends into chaos , with everyone fighting each other. The regress from a group of boys with some sort of society to total anarchy is caused by the fight over control, loss of identity, and the lack of rules.

He is motivated through the responsibility to satisfy group benefits and the need of autonomy (Harris, 1995). As the result, he behaves accordingly to his social role in order ensure group stability through internalizing the norms (Harris, 1995). However, Ralph’s group collapses as he fails to suppress Jack’s aggression and savagery (Golding, 1962). In addition, Piggy acts as a mediator, who is actively engaging in the group activities and maintaining efficient group functioning (Golding, 1962). However, he holds too much personal belief with the moral judgment; therefore, he becomes the target of the bullying and gets excluded from the group (Golding, 1962). In comparison to Ralph, Jack values his desires with priority rather than group functioning, which allows him to become malicious and engage in delinquent behaviors (Golding, 1962). Evidently, he successfully persuades most of the boys to join his tribe for nutrition and protection from the beast (Golding, 1962). As he develops similar group value with the boys, he is able to conquer Ralph, takes over his authority, and destroys the pre-existing democratic rules (Golding, 1962). Overall, the characters are able to select their own group and construct their social identity through exploring all possible groups at very young age of life (Harris, 1995). Most importantly, their experiences with peer groups are responsible for shaping their behaviors and most of the variability of future

From the little seen of him, the officer seems to be a proud, condescending man; with his first comment on the boys’ exploits on the island being ‘I should have thought that a pack of British boys […] would have been able to put up a better show than that’. Coming straight from Britain, the man almost seems to take what is undoubtedly the general culture of British people being straight and proper – which is clearly conditioning – as being nature and just how British people should be. Unfortunately for the officer, who veils his own ‘poor show’ in pride, he shows himself to be just as savage as the boys on the island by turning from them to ‘[allow] his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance’. For somebody who has just sneered at the boys’ war – presumably because it fits in with his idea of what is a child’s war that is probably completely inconsequential – he certainly seems quite taken with his own idea of what a proper war should be like, making him no less savage or violent than the children he’s looking down

Jack develops a vicious attitude toward his hunters because they would rather swim and play rather than attempt to assassinate pigs for their survival. This became inexcusable to Ralph when they let the signal fire went out. They began to think of the hunters as lazy individuals because of the lack of work they put in. Then as Simon and Ralph finished building the last shelter, they continued to play and sit around. Even Piggy did nothing.