No One Thing Is To Blame For The Island Case Study

There are many things people could say to contradict William Golding believing the human race. On the opposing side, people may say William Golding saw hope for the future when he had the boys saved. “The fire reached the coconut palms by the beach swallowed them noisily. A flame, seemingly detached, swung like an acrobat and licked up the palm heads on the platform. The sky was black” (200-201). The reason they were saved was because the island was set on fire. Human morality has save many wars from ending catastrophically. William Golding implies that one day we will lose this decency. Another point that could be made is how William Golding reminds us that the boys, although disturbed killers, are still innocent little boys. When being rescued Simon looked back and saw: At the end of the book Ralph looks behind him and sees not killers but boys. “Dumbly, Ralph shook his head. He turned a half-pace on the sand. A semi-circle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands” (200). On the contrary, the fact he reminds us that they are boys makes their

With the Lord of the Flies, the boys had no way of knowing that the plane would crash and that the boys would be put in such a dangerous situation. What they did at the time they were there was not their fault because in the beginning of the book,

To summarise, Golding is using the island as a microcosm for the outside world as he writes about how the boys use fire against the island and this can symbolise man’s destruction of nature. Golding uses a lot of different techniques throughout the story, but the technique he uses the most is, pathetic fallacy as in the weather, as he uses it in many different place to show the feeling of the boys and the island of what is happening at the time. For example, at Simon’s there is a wild storm going on but there is also a wild dance going on, this could also show how the island is shouting out to the boys to try and make them stop. When Simon is washed out to sea, the weather is very peaceful as if the island is respecting Simon and what he tried to tell the

In the renowned novel written by Golding, young boys have crashed and landed in a uninhabited island full of vegetation. On the first few pages of the novel, many of the boys are very enthusiastic about being on an island without any parental supervision of any kind. At first order was shown and there was more civilization than savagery. However, as the novel continued, we could see the kids having some constant issues with fear on the island. Slowly disorder had taken over and most of the boys had started a new era of savagery on the island.

Golding uses the characters from Lord of the Flies just as Shakespeare did to prove that man is turned to evil. The narrative illustrates a story about a group of British boys who get stranded on a deserted island without any adults. This lack of a stable society and presence of leadership forces the boys to create their own, and this works for the boys for a while. The boys turn themselves into savages and begin to do evil deeds which continue to get worse until they are rescued. In the time between their rescue, the society the boys create devolves and turns them into savages although this was not always the case. When the boys first arrived, Ralph, the fair haired boy, attempts to lead them in a civilized manner, but through the influence of Jack, many of the boys become evil. Jack mutants against Ralph saying, “ I'm not going to be a part of Ralph lot... I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too,” (Golding 127) in saying this Jack has made most of the boys on the island betray their leader which proves both Jack and his followers to be evil. The society the boys created glorifies violence and death:“... the boys… found themselves eager to take part in this demented… society.” (Golding 152). Jack, the leader of the violent tribe, often takes his followers on gruesome hunts on which they graphicly disembowel the kill, and after the hunt, Jack leads a chant while the other boys stand

Ralph speaks out and says, ”Maybe there is a beast … What I mean is maybe it’s only us.” (p. 195) This quote illuminates Golding’s main point. Golding’s message here is that humans generally want to place the responsibility for issues or problems on anyone or anything but themselves. For example, the beast is blamed for the majority of the disagreements on the island, but realistically it is the kids’ own fault. Golding is trying to demonstrate the norm of society. Throughout history humans have blames anyone but themselves for any type of complication. Golding shows that even “innocent” grade school kids are guilty of acting like everyone else including world leaders and people who are recognized as role models of society. In my opinion this idea should be spread throughout the world because it is not this esoteric idea that only the “Einsteins” of our society are able to comprehend. This idea can be understood by anyone with some common knowledge. Furthermore, if this idea was performed by everyone in our world, the world would be a much better

Because they have been away from organized society for such a long time, the boys of the island have become Golding's view of mankind, vile, destructive beasts. Although Golding shows that the longer one is away from society the closer to his view one becomes, the institution of civilization does not escape his criticism. Golding shows through many examples that those who are "civilized" are just as prone to violence and war as those who are isolated. The first example presented in the novel occurs when the boys attempt to emulate the British democratic government. The boys prize the adults that run the government as the best decision makers. It is these "civilized" adults, however, who started the war which has forced the boys onto the island. Also, in their mimicking of adult society, one of the first things that the boys do is establish the choir as an army or a group of hunters. Another of the criticisms of orderly society comes when Ralph asks for a sign from the adult world. Ralph does receive his sign in the form of a dead parachute shot down in an air battle above the island. This can be interpreted as saying that the savagery existent in man is even shown in the so called "civilized" world through acts of war. Golding clearly sees war as an action of destruction caused by man because

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 Lord of the Flies by William Golding is tale of a group of young boys who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Intertwined in this classic novel are many themes, most that relate to the inherent evil that exists in all human beings and the malicious nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the boys' gradual transformation from being civilized, well-mannered people to savage, ritualistic beasts.

The setting of the novel takes place on a peaceful, life giving island. However, once the boys came to the island, the island slowly became consumed in darkness as the boys became more savage like. Towards the beginning of the novel, Golding emphasizes the light hearted mood by describing the brightness and beauty of the island,” The palms that stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of the reflection from the lagoon.”(pg 12). Just like the island, the boys start out as peaceful boys when they first arrive on the island. However, as the boys became more corrupted by savagery, so does the island and Golding effectively uses this in the scene where the boys lose control of themselves and in their bloodlust, kill Simon,”The clouds opened and let down the rain like a waterfall…” (pg 153). Golding’s use of the setting shows the evil in humans by giving the reader a mental illustration of the progression of the island turning from paradise to despair, much like how Jack starts out as a normal boy, but progresses into savagery.

When the boys were about to do bad things because they couldn’t control the fear, the humanity was the only thing left. The humanity is one of the responsible for the demise of the island because of the boys’ civilization. When the boys landed on the island, the humanity had a serious problem which was the war that the world was having. The humanity had a huge impact on the story because at the beginning of the story, the boys were having an ordinary way of thinking and behaving, but during the climax of the story they had lost all the civility and that would be the causing of many deaths throughout the

In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding is able to use his outstanding writing abilities utilizing metaphors, symbolism, and other literary devices to establish a hidden message throughout the novel. The hidden message that Golding builds on is that there is a natural evil inside every human being, which is suppressed in an organized society through laws, rules, and punishment. The young boys in the novel are on an island all by themselves. There is no punishment for their actions, therefore allowing that evil to come out of most of the boys. All humans have an innate evil within them and that evil is brought out when there is a lack of civilization and consequence as seen in Simon’s murder,

It all started with a man by the name of Thomas Hobbes. He believed in many things about human beings and how they react to their environment. One of his beliefs was, that people will not get along unless their is a higher power making them.(“Hobbes, The leviathan”) His words in “The Leviathan” states: “Again men have no pleasure in keeping company where there is no power able to overawe them all”.(“Hobbes”) This was shown an awful lot in William Golding’s book. The boys on the island did not get along or stay civilized for very long.This was because there was no one around of higher power to make them. Therefore their little civilization did not stay strong for very long. Another thing that Hobbes said, was if humans are of equal power, and want the same thing, we will become enemies.(“Hobbes, The leviathan”) Here is his words: “and therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which they both can not enjoy, they become enemies: and in the way to their end, endeavour to destroy or subdue one another.” (“Hobbes, the leviathan”)The boys on the island were all around the same age of six through twelve. This made them feel as if they were all equal in power. Also in the beginning of the book we see Jack and Ralph both wanted to be “chief” since they were the oldest.(“Golding”) They become enemies because in their minds they were equal in power because they were

Knowing William Golding took part of World War II, we as readers can understand why Golding wrote Lord of the Flies and other survival-fiction novels. When the story was released in 1954, Golding described his book as "an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature." It is unmistakably obvious to anyone who reads this book that Golding is trying to exaggerate the good and evil in the boys on the island. Throughout the book, we learn that people, including children, are not pure goodness. Deep inside there is an evil constantly trying to rise to the surface of our minds. Golding proves that eventually the evil within us will destroy us. Golding saw in World War II what

William Golding uses young boys on an island as an example to show that the world is