Savageness In Lord Of The Flies

In the early ages, mankind was savage. William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, proves that humans are savage still today. Golding does a good job of showing the readers that without civilization, people go mad. Jack shows savage ways early in the book, and it is obvious that things will only get worse. Lord of the Flies shows that when left alone, even the most unlikely people will resort to savage ways.

“There are too many people, and too few human beings.” (Robert Zend) Even though there are many people on this planet, there are very few civilized people. Most of them are naturally savaged. In the book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, boys are stranded on an island far away, with no connections to the adult world. These children, having no rules, or civilization, have their true nature exposed. Not surprisingly, these children’s nature happens to be savagery. Savagery can clearly be identified in humans when there are no rules, when the right situation arouses, and finally when there is no civilization around us.

To begin with, in the book Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, Jack & the Hunters are people that prove humans are inherently good but change throughout the environment. Jack & the Hunters start out innocent but later change as they realize no one can control them, therefore making them savage/evil. For example, “ Then Maurice pretended to be the pig and ran squealing into the center, and the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him. As they sang. “ Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.””(Golding 75). This quote shows how Jack & the Hunters are turning savage by performing savage acts.

In Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, Golding claims that no matter how civilized or innocent all human beings are, the surrounding environment can change how people interact with each other and turn them from civilized beings into savages. He uses Jack to show that when human nature does not have any restraints, it will slowly evolve into savagery. Jack at first is a respectful, civilized person that is willing to communicate and cooperate with Ralph, but when confronting with the act of killing a pig makes him lose all sense of shame and conscience, he starts acting evil and wanting to hunt Ralph. By the end of the novel, Golding ultimately shows that everyone is capable of being evil and it is only society’s rules that keep most individuals from acting out evil.

    Despite the progression of civilization and society's attempts to suppress man's darker side, moral depravity proves both indestructible and inescapable; contrary to culturally embraced views of humanistic tendencies towards goodness, each individual is susceptible to his base, innate instincts. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, seemingly innocent schoolboys evolve into bloodthirsty savages as the latent evil within them emerges. Their regression into savagery is ironically paralleled by an intensifying fear of evil, and it culminates in several brutal slays as well as a frenzied manhunt. The graphic consequence of the boys' unrestrained barbarity, emphasized by the

(Hook/Lead) When humans are born, they all have a savage side to them, which can be held in and tamed, or let out under certain circumstances. This is what author William Golding claims in his award winning novel, Lord of the Flies. (GDT) An English plane full of schoolboys crash lands into an island in the Pacific ocean. With all adults dead and nobody on the island, the boys elect a leader named Ralph, and try to create their own society and civilization. Jack, one of the other schoolboys does not follow the rules put in place by hunting and letting loose. Over time, Jack becomes a savage with no sense of obedience. While Ralph wants to get off the island, Jack’s evil ways of killing pigs and uncivilized nature get to the rest of the boys on the island as more and more of them want to live like Jack and focus more on meat and savagery rather than being rescued. (Thesis) The boys value Jack’s leadership more than Ralph’s because Jack offers hunting and fun while Ralph offers the boys rescue and order.

In the world, one's will to hunt and kill for survival has the most compelling impact on society, it is a behavior that destroys civilization. Barbaric behavior can stem from any situation and if it is just right, one might be willing to do the unthinkable and unforgivable if it means they will live on. In the novel Lord of the Flies the author Sir William Golding uses the boy's yearning to have dominance as to what causes savage behavior and the reason for what destroys the groups attempt to remain civilized.

It’s not every day that you see acts of savagery between kids; however, in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, it’s very common. Savagery is the quality of being fierce or cruel; the condition of being primitive or uncivilized. Savagery is a very big topic, in Lord of the Flies, the kids in the book had no adult supervision while they were on an isolated island so they were living by their own rules. At the beginning of the book the boys started off as young civilized children but then they slowly started to change. There were basically two different groups on the island, they had the group of the “Civilized boys” and the hunters, which was the “Savage” group. Both of these groups have changed dramatically over time in the book. The two main characters in this book are Ralph and Jack, and they are one of the main reasons for savagery in this book. Ralph represents civilization and Jack represents savage in all of us. In Lord of the Flies William Golding shows us the inter evil in mankind. Thesis statement

From the beginning of human existence we have been savage. Over the years we have been able to control is in a more civilized way, but humans still have the urge to kill, the urge for power. In the novel “Lord of the Flies” Golding represents the savagery and selfishness in each human being through characters and various symbols, whether they are stranded on an isolated island or living in the largest city. Under the cover of each human being is the originality, where everyone is savage.

The Savage Side of Humanity Thomas Hobbes once said that humans are naturally savage, and that the only way to rule them would be with an Iron Fist. He wrote about it in his book “Leviathan” of which the name Leviathan is given to the citizen population in order to represent just how savage and disordered they had become. Hobbes is not necessarily wrong. Since the beginning of time, mankind has been nothing but a giant group of savages, from genocides, to wars that killed millions, the Leviathan has wreaked havoc on the world for thousands of years, and even the most innocent of the human population, is prone to savagery. In the novel “The Lord of The Flies” the author, “William Golding”, employs the use of character development in order to

Changed by the Season People seem to naturally be selfish which leads them to resort to savagery. The conscience that everyone has, gives them a sense of insecurity wanting to overpower one another and causing violence. William Golding doesn’t just put the scenes of violence for no reason, he portrays this to show us that eventually human nature shapes society. In the Lord of the Flies, the boys’ human nature is shaped by fear and savagery, which causes them to become violent while attempting to maintain a civilization on the island.

Mary Shelley once said in her novel Frankenstein, "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.", this describes how savage choices may not seem savage when they are made. In Lord of the flies, by William Golding, the main characters start off civilly immediately after they crash on a deserted island, then become savage slowly, then all at once when there are no rules to govern right and wrong. William Golding uses the change in the boy's hair to show that savagery overcomes civility when people are influenced by a lengthy period of time without structure. Throughout Lord of the Flies the boys appearances are more important when they act civilly than when they turn to savagery.

For thousands of years the goodness of humanity has been questioned. If people were taken out of their everyday lives-society- and put onto a place with no civilization would they act differently? Could even an innocent child turn into a savage? In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding demonstrates how humans are savages by nature through three juvenile boys-Jack, Ralph, and Roger -actions when they are deserted on island with no grownups or rules. Jack is in tasked with being in charge of hunting on the island.

In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the author shows the importance of proper power and a unified civilization in a community. Without it, humans will be tempted to follow their natural instinct, which is savagery. In the beginning of the novel, the characters were determined to create a society that will benefit everyone. But due to some disagreements and misunderstanding, they eventually resorted to savagery. Savagery has the power to completely take over a person’s identity and make them act differently.

Could you ever imagine small children killing each other? Stabbing or crushing one another to death? Probably not, however in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” these exact events occur in the boys regression into savagery throughout the novel. The more time that passes by on the island, the more savage like they become. From the hunts that they set out on, to the creation of several “tribes”, these boys slowly become more and more like animals.