Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

In the end, all the boys learn a lesson. They had many struggles and troubles of staying together as a group. Jack and his hunting group ended up setting the whole island on fire. “ The fire was a big one and the drum-roll that he has thought was left so far behind was nearer. Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?” ( Chapter 12, Page 278) The horrific fire caught the attention of a naval vessel passing by the island. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he wakes up, he sees a British naval officer right over him.

They all killed him and Ralph blames himself for participating in it instead of stopping it. Simon figured it out, he knew the beast wasn’t a creature and realized where the real beasts were but only to fall victim to the very beasts he was trying to save. “Jack and Ralph smiled at each other with shy liking” (Golding 23) then there is also Jack, the one he had grown close to in the beginning only to drift so far apart from. They start out working fairly well together and are friendly. The real drift starts after Jack’s first kill and the hunters fail to keep the fire

Later, Jack’s tribe hunts for Ralph, where Ralph runs to the beach where he collapses and is met by a naval-officer. The naval-officer thought he was playing games, until Jack’s tribe comes out and is met by the naval-officer. The officer than scolds the boys for being unorganized and not taking into account how many they were. All the boys cried and try to stay composed while making the officer embarrassed while he waited for the cruiser in the distance. Ralph cries over his loss of innocence, and the death of Simon and

When Simon comes to tell the other boys what he had seen (the dead parachutist on the mountain top) the boys formed a “new tribe” under Jack’s leadership saying “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” When they were done with their “dance” Simon was dead. That’s when you realize how much the group of boys has changed and that they are really going crazy and they can’t help it.

In the Lord of the Flies when the British school boys are sent away and their plane crashes they’re stranded on an island without an adult. This leads them to do horrible things to each other. These boys who were stranded, lost every sense of innocence they used to have and that island took it from them. Some terrible things that the boys did was murder each other and slaughter a defenseless mama pig.

Because there are no grown ups on the island and less and less order among the boys, Jack starts to abandon his usual social norms and begins to embrace his primal instincts. One example of this is when Jack and some of the other boys get swept up in hunting pigs and let the signal fire go out. This can be seen on page 69 when Jack tells Ralph, “You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time” then Ralph simply responds with: ”you let the fire go out.”. The boys prioritized wanting to hunt over getting rescued.

The struggle between humanity and savagery portrayed through the events of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies demonstrates how simple it is for one to succumb to the mannerisms of depravity. This is impossible with the implementation of structure and order, as such concepts provide boundaries and keep man sane and behaved. Once the boys arrive on the island, isolated and expelled from society, they look to a shell to relieve them of this hardship, and to institute a form of government that will keep them from acting out. Despite the trust they put in the shell, it fails to hold them from corruption, only adding to the growing tension between all of the boys inhabiting the mysterious island. Through the escalating tension surrounding the

They were all part of the dance and Jack was not the only one who attacked Simon. All the boys that could get their hands on him attacked him. They were out of control and impulsive which caused them to attack what they thought was the beast. While performing their tribal dance, Simon crawled out of the forest and into the middle of the circle. As Simon tried to explain what the beast was the boys “poured down the rock, lept on the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.

Men, without rules, can be led towards destruction. Lord of the Flies depicts at first a group of boys trying to maintain order, and a later descent into savagery. One of the most direct, apparent examples of this is through Roger. Through the contrast of the self-restraint Roger has at the beginning of the novel and the murder he absentmindedly commits at the end, Golding illustrates how man’s desire for savagery is restrained only by the enforced civilization of society.

Before Simon is murdered, Jack and his tribe celebrate their kill of a pig by joining together in a circle while reenacting the vicious kill and “Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society” (Golding 152). As the chief, Ralph desperately tries to maintain structure in a society that is rapidly falling apart. However, the ominous storm in the sky, the exotic dance, and the savage chant intrigue both Ralph and Piggy, so they feel inclined to join in. Simon then wanders into the circle and is mistaken for the beast, causing the boys to attack and tear into him. Piggy later denies his involvement and attempts to convince Ralph of their innocence. However, Ralph recognizes the event for what it truly was, telling Piggy, “That was Simon… That was murder,” demonstrating his responsibility and desire for a stable society (Golding 156). It shows how Ralph is willing to take responsibility for his moment of weakness, rather than be purposefully ignorant of an occurrence that furthers society’s descent into a complete

Killing a pig became an only job on this island. Fear changed jack from a person to a hunter as he chose to kill a pig over rescuing from this island. Jack was supposed to look after a fire and he didn’t and lost the only chance they got to rescue. As jack uses fear to control his hunters to kill a pig “we’ll kill a pig and give a feast. And about the beast, when we kill we’ll leave some of the kill for it. Then it won’t bother us, maybe”. Fear of beast led his hunters to kill a pig and after that they started enjoying it.

This begins to explain one of the main themes throughout the novel Lord of the Flies. For one to be uncivilized is to be barbaric and inhuman, without having a sense of culture and social development. When innocence or civilization is lost, levels of economic, social, technological, political, and cultural evolution differentiates from that of the normal, because ideas, values, institutions, and achievements of a particular society is changed. The boys in Lord of the Flies find themselves in a situation where their only option was to learn to grow up and learn to do it fast on their own. They have to learn how to survive and fend for themselves without the presence of any adult figures, and create a prosperous society for their own. They

Jack’s job in the tribe was to be the leader of the hunters, watch the fire, and hunt for food. From the start, Jack and his hunters had multiple attempts and killing at pig. After the failures, Ralph became enraged they were not hunting for food and the fire went out. Jack and Ralph had many disputes over the campfire and which led to Jack leaving the tribe. Next, Jack and his hunters moved to the opposite side of the island where he became chief. Eventually, Jack was able to kill a pig and organized a feast that invited everyone. During the feast Jack screamed, “ I painted my face- I stole up. Now you eat- all of you- and I” (Golding pg 74). This shows how power hungry Jack is. The savage was projected by Jack to his hunters made him indirectly responsible for the deaths of Piggy and Simon. Jack’s selfishness turned him into a terrible person and he affected everyone around

“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.

Ralph, shyly admits that had lost several honourable friends due to the actions made by the group. It was first the death of Simon, when Ralph realized that the group was capable of almost anything. Simon, being mistaken for a ‘beast’, was killed in the boy’s mob mentality to kill whatever they were afraid of. “It was dark no one could see him, it was an accident, I don’t believe anybody meant to harm anyone, but it was still… murder” says Ralph.