Order Versus Chaos in Lord of the Flies

During the meeting where the boys are questioning the reality of the beast, Simon says this,”What I mean is...maybe it’s only us”(Golding 89). While everyone else is debating on whether or not the beast is real, Simon is trying to propose that the actual beast is the boys themselves in the form of their savage impulses. Simon is the first character in the novel to see the beast as the evil nature of humans instead of a physical being. The Lord of the Flies confirms Simon’s thought, saying,”Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!...You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!”(Golding 143). This establishes that the only thing to fear on the island is the evil human instinct inside of

The encounter with the Lord of the Flies supports Simon’s thoughts that the beast that the boys are hunting for is not an actual animal. The Lord of the Flies tries to persuade Simon to let go of his rational thoughts and be taken over by his primal instincts in order to have fun like the other boys. However, when Simon’s silence declares that he refuses to let go of logic and rationality, the Lord of the Flies realizes that Simon knows what the beast really is—the innermost part of the boys. Simon seems to make this connection that the Lord of the Flies is representational to the inner beast within the boys almost instantly. “His gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition”(Golding 139). Simon instantly The Lord of the Flies quickly makes the connection, too. “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” (Golding, 1 ). The Lord of the Flies is symbolic to all the evil that is in humans. As Simon realizes that he was right about the beast, he tries to go back to the other boys to warn them about his discovery, but the Lord of the Flies gets angry. “This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you’ll only meet me down there—so don’t try to

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies presents a story of a group of boys who become stranded on an island together, and in their struggle to survive; some begin to fight for power. Having power makes them feel in control of their situation; however, this power struggle quickly begins to consume them. Golding uses the power struggle between Ralph and Jack, the two main characters, to illustrate the power struggle between good and evil.

In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of English boys in their adolescence are stranded on an island. They crash-land while being evacuated because of an atomic war, so the boys must learn to cooperate with each other in order to survive. The boys are civil at first, but the bonds of civilization unfold as the rapacity for power and immediate desires become more important than civility and rescue. The conflict between Ralph, the protagonist, and Jack, the antagonist, represents the conflict between the impulse to civilization and the impulse to savagery, respectively. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Ralph and Jack’s struggle for power to show that greed and lust for power can corrupt the best

Beast, devil, evil, corruption, the seven deadly sins, they all represent some form of evil within humankind. Lord of the Flies is the story of schoolboys that have crash landed on an abandoned island, and go through many hardships as they fight for power and try to be saved. Throughout the story, however, they boys go from having a civilized structure to utter chaos, they struggle for their lives and grasp for survival from a darker creature on the island. Within chapter nine, Simon discovers the beast for what it really is; meanwhile Ralph and Piggy decide to join the other bigguns for a feast with Jack’s tribe. The boys play and dine, and circle together for a “dance” when Simon stumbles out of the forest to tell them of his discovery, and lands in the circle, which results in him being brutally beat to death. This attack on Simon demonstrates how the fear of the beast that the boys are experiencing is affecting their better judgment, and pushes their morals to the side, just so that they can feel safe. In chapter 9 of Lord of the Flies, William Golding employs repetition, animal imagery, and natural imagery to convey the theme that fear can corrupt humans, which pushes them to engage in unspeakable acts.

The emotional behavior and irrationality of human nature guarantees that any society created by people will be plagued with defects and flaws, particularly the disownment of logic and reason. This is due to the reality that people act on emotion and instinct rather than on logic and rationality, causing humans to be, by nature, corrupt and narcissistic. As a result, people are inclined to fulfill their selfish desires, causing them to reject order and democracy, and instead embrace the development of chaos and anarchy. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies documents the story of a coalition of schoolboys, stranded on an island, and how the society that they form devolves into turmoil. Evaluating how Piggy is rejected due to his unseemly appearance and ideas, his respect for order and peace in contrast with the boys’ lust for destruction, as well as Piggy’s attempts and overall

Even though Golding had an enormous amount of symbols throughout his novel, Simon is the first to recognize the complication posed by the beast and the “Lord of the Flies” that is, that the monster on the island is not a real, physical beast, but rather a savagery that lurks within each and every human being. As a final point, the loss of social structure within civilization can lead to the demise of the boys on the island whether it's between Ralph vs Jack, the boys vs the island, or even Simon vs

Simon is the innocent, dynamic character of Lord of the Flies. Throughout the whole novel, Simon was reserved yet loyal, respectful, and helpful to Ralph and the other boys. He was the only chorus member to not join Jack’s group of barbaric hunters. Simon is classified as an outcast due to his fainting spells, hallucinations, frail appearance, and savoring his solitude. When most of the boys were playing around and shirking from responsibilities, Simon migrates into the forest to “meditate” alone. As the novel progresses, a majority of the younger boys began to fear the idea of a beast lurking in the forest at night but Simon thought the beast solely in their heads. After chaos broke out between Jack and Ralph, Simon was in the forest avoiding

The pig’s head comes into existence through the inhuman butchering of a pig. The murder of the pig was the most evil and violent thing they had executed thus far. Jack decides to offer the Beast the head of the pig they had just slain as food, to convince it to leave the boys alone. Simon, the most peaceful and innocent of the children on the island, sees the slaughter of the pig and the subsequent sacrifice to the Beast and the pig’s head begins to speak to him. The pig’s head refers to itself as the Beast and Simon refers to it as the Lord of the Flies. The Lord of the Flies says, “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” (Golding 111). To fully explain the exchange between the Lord of the Flies and Simon, it must be understood that the Lord of the Flies is a reference to Satan. The Lord of the Flies states that the Beast could not be hunted nor killed because the Beast is inside the boys. The pig’s head says that he is the cause of the turmoil with the children on the island, he is the cause of the savagery that exists in them. These two statements made by the Lord of the Flies exemplify the fact that, because the Beast is inside them and the Beast is the cause of all issues, the Beast is the inherent evil that exists in the boys. The Lord of the Flies represents Satan, which is the most malicious figure depicted throughout history, which shows that if he exists in the boys, they all have the capability and the tendency to be heinous. Moreover, the boys regress to their primitive state within the span of a few weeks, which illuminates that this Beast had lived inert in them since birth, society was oppressing it and as soon as society was removed, it awoke. Golding meant for the pig’s head to be a symbol of the evil that the boys on the island are born with and that they frequently display throughout the time they spend

The Lord of the Flies is a novel full of powerful symbolism, as illustrated by the scene in chapter 8 where Simon encounters the “beast” as he roams free through the forest glade. When he sees it, the Lord of The Flies begins to speak. It taunts him and frightens him, saying, “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?”

Later on, to clear up his thoughts Simon ventures off into the island alone. He encounters the impaled head of a sow and immediately hallucinates a conversation. The fly infested pig head begins talking to Simon as the Lord of the Flies, “There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast. . . . Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close,

“‘Good people’ are capable of bad behavior; additionally, ‘bad people’ are capable of good behavior” (Elaina Marie). Lord of the Flies by William Goulding illustrates how no adults equals chaos among kids, just like how it is at Cherry Creek High School. On the island the boys go crazy playing a game, and they cause Roger to squeal “in real pain”(114). They don’t think before they act because “there aren’t any grownups”(8). With no adult around at school, students also act irrationally and do impulsive things without thought. Knowing “there was no parent to let fall a heavy hand”, Maurice throws sand into a littlun’s eye (60). This is like high school because kids will be more mean when they know there is no one to scold them. Lord

However, his “effort fell about him in ruins;” as “the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenseless to his seat” (Golding 89). The response Simon receives show that the audience is not ready to accept the meaningful truth, that the fear of themselves causes a deception among the boys to create an illusion of a fleshly beast. Simon is willing to persist on a quest of unraveling the false beast, because he wants the boys to face their fear, the beast within themselves. Along the way, he comes face to face with the Lord of the Flies, literally described as a severed pig’s head impaled upon a stake, “a gift for the beast” (Golding 137). The encounter consolidates the idea that the real beast is more about the concept of evil, which is what the figure represents, than a physical creature that can do harm to the community.

To begin with Ralph and Piggy gather all the scatter boys on the island with a conch shell that brought them all together. When they all came together Ralph says Piggy name and when he does all the kids start making fun of him and start to bully him. Also all the other kids say his name fits him well because he is fat like a pig. In Chapter 1 Jack says to Piggy, “Shut up fatty!” Then all the kids start chanting,

Has soon as they arrive on the island, Ralph one of the main protagonists show leadership which the other boys look to, to help them survive on the island. With the help of Piggy another protagonist, they discover a conch shell that Piggy