Reflection Of 'Lord Of The Flies'

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an allegory that explores the instinctual evil humans possess and how this evil manifests into our societies. The book demonstrates this through young boys who are stranded on an island due to a plane crash. Despite their best efforts, the lack of adult guidance inhibits the boys from maintaining an orderly society. The boys turn to their survival instincts, many of which are evil. The lack of order exposes the internal savagery within the boys, resulting in an understanding of the flaws within all humanity. The Lord of the Flies uses the innocence of young boys to show the societal impact of human errors through their lack of adult supervision, the desire to inflict violence, and the need for authority over others.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic novel that is known as one of the greatest pieces of literature and has been for decades, because of how it relates to people and events that have happened. As the island is a microcosm of the world, the book mirrors what’s going on in the real world. The main themes of the book are Good Vs. Evil, Civilization Vs. Savagery, Power and Survival, which can easily be related to by most people - both now, when the book was written and probably also in the future.

It may have taken millions of years for humans to evolve enough to create the sprawling civilizations known today, but it only takes a few months for a group of civil, educated boys to regress back into savagery. In his novel Lord of the Flies, author William Golding depicts a group of young British boys getting stranded on a deserted island sans adults. The boys must look out for themselves, forming a basic governing system and trying to survive. But the challenge soon proves too much to handle, and order deteriorates. William Golding conveys the universal theme of civilization vs. savagery in his novel Lord of the Flies using the literary elements of plot, setting, and characterization.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic novel and portrays just how the society surrounding us can corrupt our once pure nature No one is born a killer, no one is born with an intense compulsion to kill, the island that the boys are stranded on has a very unusual, corrupting society; A society that erodes the boys innocence through the power struggle between Jack and Ralph, readers see the transfer from innocent to savagely through the hunting and Piggy’s death.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about a group of boys stranded on an island with no adults and no rules. Golding believes that humans all have a capability to do wrong, and through The Lord of the flies portrays how certain situations make a human’s capacity for evil more prominent. Golding shows how the boys’ civilization deteriorates from being good British kids to murderous savage people. The novel can easily be connected to the Stanford Prison Experiment, and how what happened to the boys on the island can happen outside the realm of fiction. Golding shows the reader what the Lord of the Flies is in the book and how the namesake of the book is found in all of us.

In the Lord of the Flies, we encounter a group of boys who have been stranded on an uninhabited island after a plane crash. They are English school boys who have been taught proper manners and understand what it means to be under authority. They demonstrate this by their initial election of a chief and the establishment of a certain degree of rules and order. However, this falls apart very quickly and the boys’ sense of right and wrong are abandoned. What was the driving force behind the savagery and chaos that developed as the structure they established deteriorated? Was it the environmental factors they were cast into, or was it an innate biological instinct that drove them to the edge?

Lord of the Flies is a realistic fiction by William Golding that attempts to trace the defects of society back to the imperfections of human nature. Led and created by the power-hungry, manipulative dictator, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party was formed with a myriad of flaws. However, in support of Golding’s thematic statement, Adolf Hitler brought the undoing of the Nazi's regime.

Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding demonstrates the idea that our world today is still full of corrupt people that break our world apart from the good. The article, “Iowa Police Take Suspect in ‘Ambush-Style’ Killings of Two Officers into Custody” explains to us how evil our world still is to this day, with a man killing two police officers because they wouldn’t let him make fun of a race that doesn’t deserve to be made fun of. Just like Jack does to Piggy and Ralph when Jack calls Piggy a “Fatty” and he tells everyone that Ralph isn’t fit to be chief. Articles like this prove that when Golding wrote his novel he was thinking about how evil and how dangerous people truly are when put in certain situations that provoke one's actions.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding highlights humans’ descent from civilization into savagery. Although savagery overcomes some of the boys so easily, it is not as easy for others to escape their conditioning from society and go completely savage. In the beginning, the majority of the boys try to bring order to the island while others show signs of savagery very early on. Eventually when hardship and tensions increases, there are still a few boys who keep resisting savagery. Also, even when the savagery and evil start to become prevalent in the boys’ actions, they continue to resist the rejection of social rules and guidelines. It is hard for the boys to abandon the only thing they know.

Personally, I enjoyed reading “Lord of the Flies”. The author, William Golding did an excellent job of demonstrating how each character would act when put on a deserted island with little hope. It was interesting how some characters, such as Piggy and Ralph stayed true to their morals, while others like Roger and Jack, abandoned intelligence and based their decisions on greed and power. Jack displayed this greed by convincing the twins to leave the signal fire for extra assistance in catching the pig (Ch 4, p 67.). I think that the characters are realistic, as there is diversity in the group, and many younger children avoided work, which is very common among children. Overall, I think the characters are believable except for the speed in which characters developed. I think that in real life it would take a lot longer for the characters to turn into savages. Jack accelerated from not being able to kill a pig as he was merciful in chapter 1 to having prisoners in his fortress in chapter 10, but I do understand that the author had to do this to advance the plot. For the most part, I believe

Lord of the Flies Symbolism Analysis “There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs” (George R.R Martin). Once humankind is granted with power, the inner beast receives the opportunity to break through and bring forth chaos. As a group of innocent, British boys attempted to venture home, their plane crashed onto an uninhabited island. Consequently, the energetic boys had to create a system of living without the guidance of adults. As time passed, the reader was shown through the many symbols Golding used, that the boy’s system of living crumbled to barbaric savagery.

When I finished reading Lord of the Flies, I think I would have found myself on the side of it being a warning that what we call civilization is taken for granted. Throughout the novel Golding makes apparent that each choice the boys make is right and wrong. Each decision they make to turning into beast of humanity could have been stopped if they would have made the correct decisions. I think that even in society today we could very easily turn into what happened on that island, as I read it there were not many turns made that lead to the low that they had reached by the end of the book.

What do you think of the novel, Lord of the Flies? Personally, I believe that Lord of the Flies is a type of novel that ties to the real society of today. It doesn’t necessarily tie to today’s society for it was written in 1954; moreover, it ties to the basic lines of youth and their parents. The different themes of Lord of the Flies would be the innocence and guiltiness of youth and the peace they create and break at the same time with fury or detesting of someone. These themes all would relate and reflect to the youth today and their actions/thoughts. They act out or act upon what they see or think would be instinct for not only themselves, but also others. Sometimes, what they act upon changes the person and/or situation in a negative

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

Throughout the novel, issues arise concerning leadership, so the group of boys eventually splits into two separate “tribes.” The story follows the boys’ journey towards savagery and the path that takes them further from their previously civilized manners. The audience witnesses the change in maturity and unity in the young boys as they become more violent towards each other and towards the animals on the island. By the end of the story, two boys have been killed and one has burned to death in an accident concerning a fire. The last few chapters of the story follow Ralph as he is hunted and almost executed by the tribe of savage children. The book ends by bringing the boys back to reality when they are saved by a naval officer. Although Lord of the Flies is a story that follows schoolboys through their journey towards savagery, it also represents the art of maturity and the ability of a child to be corrupted by human