Savagery Lord Of The Flies Analysis

“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.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack’s power struggle is observed throughout the book. Ralph’s democratic leadership sharply contrasts Jack’s tyrannical and uncivilized rule. Ralph is stripped of everything and the line between him and Jack is blurred near the end because he gives in to savagery. Though all men will ultimately revert back to animalistic instinct and savagery in the absence of civilization, Ralph only succumbs to this when he loses his friends and when he is hunted; Jack succumbs all on his own.

In contrast to the initial civil behaviors of the boys, the savagery of human nature slowly overtakes the civilized ways the boys know so well. The boys gradually begin to adhere less and less to the rules as time goes on. With no real system of order, or any way to regulate it, it is hard for Ralph to keep the group working towards any form of organization. The fact that each of the boys on the island is no older than twelve can help one understand why most tasks are difficult to accomplish within the group. In the beginning, it is small responsibilities such as failing to help build huts that work as commencement for the beginning of the end. Due to the boys’ immaturity, they continue to ignore these responsibilities, making it become easier

What would one strive for on a remote island? Hunting for meat and prioritizing fun, or civilization and rescue? Two characters in Lord of The Flies serve as exquisite examples:, these characters are Jack and Ralph. Jack and Ralph have very distinct priorities yet they both operate as leaders in this novel. They both undergo temptations of the hunt, and from there savagery takes over one of them. Death becomes present as time progresses and this is when each one’s behaviors and morals are unveiled. Throughout the Lord of the Flies, there are two conflicting interests, one of Jack, who personifies the nature of hunting for exhilaration, but who also has a foolish nature in which he is an advocate of idiocy. The other includes the interests of Ralph, who symbolizes deliverance and civilization and is more focused on the preservation of life.

The novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding reveals that the true nature of man is savagery. Golding uses a group of young boys, who are stranded on an island, to show the collapse of society. The boys assemble together and initially establish a democratic system of “government.” Ralph, a twelve year old responsible for calling the boys together, is elected as the “chief” of the island over Jack, who is the leader of a group of older boys. Ralph’s role as chief is to implement rules and assign task to each boy on the island. Ralph becomes the face of the government and upholds law and order. However, order begins to crumble as Jack and his choir boys neglect the rules and eventually leave to start a new tribe. Ralph quickly loses his power and leadership ability as all the boys slowly migrate to Jack’s tribe.

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.

Imagine the struggle between civilization and savagery in a society without adults. Well, this situation is the same in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. There is a group of British boys ranging from ages 6-12 who end up on an island, and realize the adults are not there. Ralph, who is the main character as well as leader of the group, tries to have the group stay and work together to make a fire in order to be rescued. Throughout this book, there are some conflicts involving the beast, but the major one is between staying good or reverting to evilness.

It has taken humanity over 150,000 years to graduate from savagery to civility but it may only take a couple days revert back. As seen in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, it does not take much to bring out the beast within someone. A group of adolescent boys were left stranded on an island when the plane that they were traveling on was shot down. Ralph, one of the older boys, was voted chief of the island by all of the other kids. Jack, the boy that lost the people's favor, was so engulfed by his desire of wanting to become chief that he left Ralph’s group and proceeded to create his own tribe, which was made of some of Jack’s followers. As he assumed power over the group, he dwelled deeper and deeper into savagery. It was not just Jack

Dictionary.com defines a savage as someone who is cruel, barbaric, untamed and ferocious. With this in mind, William Golding, the author of Lord of The Flies, depicts a world where civilization and savagery collide. While stranded on an island, a band of boys must decide if they can come together as a civilized group or if they will be torn apart and made savages of the island. Golding conveys civilization versus savagery through the decision making process of his characters, the remote island setting of where the boys are and through the idea that every human has an inner savage.

Trapped children, they will soon become savages, and will test their true survival instinct, And how they act as individuals. What will happen to their society? By the way these kids act, Savagery. When they are left alone, On a Littlun filled island, With no supervision, Are now left to their own devices,

It’s society’s job to overpower the dark side of human nature through the obligation of rules, morals, and structure. In the novel “Lord Of The flies”, William Golding suggests that the prime reasons individuals turn to savagery are their natural instincts, the influence of others, and the lack of structure and society. When the children are left stranded on an island they are forced to leave behind the civilized world they know and learn to adapt to the life of a savage. While they are exposed to the real world they learn for themseIves to reIy on instinct to survive. At the beginning of the novel, we see the boys who have not yet lost their innocence, holding down their values of the past.

According to Websters Dictionary the word savagery means a cruel or violent quality or action. Savagery is acted out in our society everyday and is a big part in Lord of the Flies. Savagery can be acted out mentally, physically or sexually. Savages can range from people pickpocketing to being serial killers. All of the kids on the island turn into savages as the days go on.

Comedian Bill Cosby once said, “Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.” Coming from such an iconic comedian, this humorous statement, has a unique concept behind it. The idea of creating a civilization with rules and regulations is not an idea created in recent time. Creating a civilization can be dated back to thousands of years ago. Composing a set of laws, is no doubt one of the most difficult tasks to complete, and it requires the utmost leadership skills along with intelligence. In Lord of the Flies, a group of pre-teens have found themselves stranded on an island with absolutely no sign of adults. Far away from any civilization,

To have no one in charge is a great way to live. Having no authority creates an unimaginable freedom. However in a world of freedom, we have to have rules and obey them. After all, we are not savages (Golding 42). In The Lord of the Flies, savagery poses a challenge to civility through the following people and symbols: facepaint, the conch, and Jack.

Savagery is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as the “quality of being fierce or cruel,” but in the Lord of the Flies, savagery takes on a new meaning of being brutally uncivilized. Lord of the Flies by William Golding portrays a corrupt island on which boys have crash landed. The reader finds themselves on the journey of a group of English boys’ descent into savagery, and observes how civilization becomes obsolete on an island of evil. Golding occasionally refers to the boys as animals because of the primitive qualities that they possess as civilization starts to corrode. Lord of the Flies is primarily allegory for mankind, and specifically the savagery, in all who lack morals, that lies beneath the cultured civilization. We see the civilization