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Lord of the Flies - Editorial “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” these were the words chanted as a boy was cut and bitten to death by other kids his own age! A point of uncivilization comes to a certain degree, and to say that the boys in Lord of the Files have met this degree would still be considered an understatement. These boys have passed the class of uncivilization and have reached an even worse classification of one’s self: savagery. As things get tough and decisions become harder to make, savagery seems like the only thing the boys could regress to… and they most certainly do. William Golding, the author, clearly demonstrates this regression to savagery in a timely but certain manner. As William makes this demonstration, …show more content…

In the Lord of the Flies a boy named Roger initially gets poked at with spears easily at first by the other boys in a playful manner, but then quickly escalates into Roger getting beat up pretty bad, with no remorse from the boys whatsoever. This could be compared to something as simple as a playful game at a playground turn into a deadly fight, or as serious as the Metrojet Crash that had the whole nation of Russia wage war against the terrorist group Isis. In the novel, the hurting of Roger came with no thought of consequence from the other boys which makes these modern day events even more savage in that the consequences are very known to ones who perform the actions in modern events, but they still do it because being civilized isn’t even considered at that point. Now the general island stranded story has definitely happened in modern times. When stranded on the island, the boys in the novel result to savagery to survive, this would be no different from a famous true story of survivors Gerald Kingsland and Lucy Irvine who actually chose to live alone and stranded on a deserted island. This couple resorted to savagery just to survive: drinking turtle blood and not wearing any clothes, definite attributes of a savaged one. Savagery examples in the novel and from modern times definitely conclude the fact that savagery is out there, whether you witness it or

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