Socialization In Lord Of The Flies

People always seem to fit themselves into boxes. They try to label themselves according to what they want or believe themselves to be. People find their desires in either people or materialistic things. People all have their desires, and they all try to accept what they are. In 2016, people tend to find their desires in the world around them. After, they conform to the world and ideas around them. Although members of society claim to be independent, people depend on others' opinions.

However, despite all the savagery displayed, Golding shows the goodness in human beings, when the boys are caring for each other’s safety. Most of the boys’ humane personality is displayed during the beginning when they formed a small civilization, chose a leader, and also had rules to abide by. There was also a good relationship between Piggy and Ralph, who had helped each other in difficult and humiliating situations. An example of this is seen when Ralph defends Piggy, when he is laughed at because of his name. Piggy is also seen to be extremely loyal to Ralph. For example, Piggy suggests using the conch as a tool for speaking and a way to call the others for meetings. Piggy also displays his loyalty when he stays by Ralph’s side throughout the book, despite having everyone else abandon him and joining Jack and his hunters.

As children are growing up they are taught to stick up for themselves, to not talk to strangers and when people offer them drugs, to not take them. However, what if all of their friends told them to do it? What if that was the new trend and everyone was doing it? Should he give in? Should he stick to his instinct and refuse to do it because he knows that it is bad? More likely than not, he will give in sooner or later. Nobody likes to feel like an outcast or the person that does not take any risk in life. People everyday become victims of peer pressure even if they realize it or not. For example, buying clothes because the model on the magazine looked pretty wearing it. Another example would be picking on people, believing in a ghost, and exposing harm just to justify authority in a group. These examples are all leading to how peer pressure has a big role in Lord of the Flies. The presence of a group including older kids have a negative effect on the children and foreshadow events later in the story that will affect them as they get older. The influence of the older kids, such as Ralph, Simon, Jack, and Sam and Eric carry the responsibility of violence, the bullying of Piggy, and the myth of the beast. However, they are children that have not been fully taught the true way to treat people and have no standards.

It is a very arguable subject on whether or not people are born with good intentions, and therefore taught by others the ‘evil’ side of their personality. Whether it is the absence of ethical conduct in human nature, or just the way one perceives a situation, evil seems to be prominent in our everyday lives. Humans seem to have a moral code that follows them with every decision they make, yet despite the laws of morality and society, people of this world still seem to behave inhumanely because of the act of self-preservation, human interest, and who exactly the authority figure is at the time.

In contrast, Jack represents the selfishness of the individual and the desire to have fun without regard for safety or the consequences to the group of not being rescued. All the boys have been raised in a society that has taught them right from wrong. Ralph and Piggy are attempting to maintain a sense of order and provide some of the elements of security for the group. Jack and the other boys that follow him are only participating actively in the hunt, and the pursuit of their own interests. In either circumstance, the boys involved are making a conscious choice. They are aware of their actions and although they may not fully understand the repercussions, they do understand that they are not following the direction given by their chosen

Their ignorance is evident when Ralph persuades the boys to accept his authority by claiming he wants to both survive and enjoy himself on the island: “This is what I thought. We want to have fun. And we want to be rescued” (p.37). But when he fails to prove such by prioritizing the fire, Jack uses it to his advantage when taking control, as seen when Ralph says to the remaining boys: “Sit down all of you. They raided us for fire. They 're having fun” (p.141), and when Jack attempts to recruit boys by saying: “Who’ll join my tribe and have fun?” (p.150). Jack uses the boys’ desire to have fun to gain support and popularity. Having fun is easy, careless, and freeing, which can often quickly turn into reckless and thoughtless. When they are given the choice choice to be free or listen to instruction, they choose the easiest and most appealing option, which does not include maintaining civil order. Piggy’s intelligence is also ignored by the boys such as when Piggy has the conch and claims he has the right to speak, but: “[The boys] looked at him with eyes that lacked interest in what they saw” (p.44). An overload of knowledge, like in Piggy’s case, can bore one’s audience and make people dread their appearance, and lead to mockery and chaos. Also, Piggy falls into the category of the stereotypical “nerd”. This is evident from the beginning: “He came

Society is a man made system that allows humans to have an orderly life, and it is important because of its provision of betterment of the world. It is essential for the world to have an organizational system like society, considering that we would struggle to better our lives without someone to take charge or lead us. Feral children are children who lack exposure to society and its factors. They do not experience society like most people do. Because of this, they tend to act wild and abnormal in comparison to normal social standards. In the book Lord of the Flies, the boys stranded on an island lack an organized society. Without society and social skills, it would be hard to find a way to better lives. We would not feel a need to fix the

Society can influence many people to change their beliefs and the way they feel about themselves. This can lead to them being depressed, miserable, and having suicidal thoughts. A group of choir boys in the Lord of the Flies get stranded on an island from a plane crash and turn into blood-thirsty hunters, killing pigs in order to survive. Soon after it becomes challenging to survive, trying to find shelter, build a fire, and trying to leave trails of smoke so ships notice and rescue them.The boys are isolated by society because they don’t know what’s happening in other parts of the world, yet they still have their sense of style.In the book Lord of the Flies has many examples of societal influences that change the lives of the boys from going

The novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a story about a group of British school boys that get stuck on an island after they crash on a plane. They are forced to use the resources around them and have to trust each other, and it works out for a while, but while you read on, you begin to recognize a strain between the two main characters, Jack and Ralph, which really spins out of control at the end. William Golding uses British school boys for this novel because those kind of boys are well mannered and don’t seem like the kind of people to turn into uncultured savages. They are expected to have manners and common etiquette. He uses an example of social commentary by using the little ‘uns in the book as not being able to take care of themselves, and that is supposed to represent the society that we live in, that we can’t take care of ourselves without help. Foreshadowing is subtle, uses unimportant details to lead up to the climaxes of the novel, and is the basis of good vs. evil during the novel.

“Life is scientific, that’s what it is. In a year of two when the war’s over they’ll be traveling to Mars and back. I know there isn’t no beast, not with claws and all that, I mean but I know there isn’t no fear, either. Unless we get frightened of people.” (84). Lord of the Flies is a novel where civilization is involved and it was found surrounded by a group of little boys under-aged teenagers who try to govern themselves on an island. The boys were found in a plane crash on a island and they try to create a society based on their own rules and laws.The boys: Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and the rest of the boys try to work out their differences and make a civilized little group in order to survive. Everyone on the island wants to survive and hope to be rescued to come home to their families. As the book went on, you see changes in the characters as they are influenced from others or in society. The characters develop as the book goes on and they experiment new beginnings when they are put in difficult situations. William Golding, in the novel of Lord of the Flies, uses the characters, Jack and Ralph, to reveal that human nature is naturally corrupted.

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” The posed question is if society is controlled by people, or are people controlled by society. Some may argue that society is controlled by people, but if you step into the light is that really the case. If you were to look at society, really look at it, who is being controlled. Its not society itself, sure people affect the directions society turns, but that is a small group of people who represent societies movement and trends. People do not really affect what society truly is. Society is, as said before, a mental concept, the popular, important figures in the world are the physical representation. The world is full of unique individuals, although everyone is under influence of society. It is subconscious, but always there. These next paragraphs will express how society controls people by elaborating on three main ideas that show up in the book Lord of The Flies. Society controls our actions, we learn from society and use it to try to be in control of others, and it is always there and so we have no idea what to do apart from it.

When they first arrive at the island, Jack and the rest of the boys wears the same mask of innocence as every other human being, but it soon begins to slip. Throughout a massacre of pigs, Jack and the other boys releases their animal nature. Initially, the boys try to set up an island society that mimics the English society, with discipline and authority. The behavior of the boys is the same as they showed at school back home, but the need to be the survival of the fittest pushes the boys’ past their humanized nature. The children want to have familiar rules. Piggy says, “We’ll have rules!” he cried excitedly. “Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks ‘em--” (Golding 25). Everyone follows the rules in the beginning, hoping that it will lead their rescue. But when their hopes dwindle, they soon fall out of order, becoming two independent and opposed groups. To become superior to the others, Jack kills pigs and humans and earns the place of a tribe leader. His actions show that humans act to

In viewing the aspects of the island society, the author William Golding's Lord of the Flies as a symbolic microcosm of society. He chooses to set the children alone in an unsupervised world, leaving them to learn ‘ the ways of the world’ in a natural setting first hand. Many different perspectives can also be considered. Golding's island of marooned youngsters becomes a microcosm. The island represents the individual human and the various characters represent the elements of the human psyche.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, narrates the story of a group of English boys as they struggle to survive on an uncharted, uninhabited island. The boy’s airplane crashes into the island and kills any adults on board -- leaving the boys to fend for themselves. Ralph and Piggy meet each other first and, upon Piggy’s counsel, Ralph decides to call a meeting of all the boys by blowing on a conch shell. The boys quickly begin to form a society in which they elect Ralph as their leader. A boy called Jack quietly disagrees and believes that he should lead the group. As times passes, Jack and his choir become hunters for the rest of the boys and they begin to enjoy the ways of a predator. As Jack grows more savage, he becomes unhappy with the

James Madison once said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary”. But men are not angels and there is a need for government, because men are not inherently good. Throughout the novel, Lord Of The Flies, William Golding successfully portrays his view of human nature as inherently evil by the actions and thoughts of the boys who are stranded on an island. The catholic church’s standpoint that human nature is inherently good is overpowered by William Golding’s view. William’s view is expressed throughout the Lord Of The Flies through the savagery in the book, the desire to kill/ hunt, and the loss of their innocence.