The Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Many people have their own views on humanity. They can either be that humans are essentially good but can become corrupt or that people are just essentially evil. They have their own opinions, some people can tell their perspective on humans in other fashions. If people are essentially good, they how do they become corrupt? Or if are truly evil, then why do some people seem like they are kind people and they can never do such things? To take both of these into account, a person may saw that people are good but deep down have evil within them. People may ask how does the evil within a person come out, the answer to that is that it is thanks to their environment. The environment around a person can undoubtedly draw out the evil within them

The theme of The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is the reason society is flawed is because people are flawed. Although Piggy is knowledgeable, he has many flaws including his laziness and physical inabilities. Ralph is an authority seeker. He sets rules and laws, yet does little to enforce them. Ralph wants to be the ruler, without doing the work to enforce his laws. Jack is persistent. He is rude, harsh and violent in order to get what he wants. He wants to be supreme. Piggy’s flaws are impactful in the story. His laziness and lack of physical ability hurt him in his quest for survival.

In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, we can see that Jack faces his own personal battle between himself and his want for power. Jack’s desire for dominance led him to commit evil acts for his own personal gain, than the greater good for all boys on the island. Jack claimed that he was fit for the role of leadership several times during the early chapters of the book. Golding stated that it was between Ralph and Jack who would lead and that Jack believed he should be chosen saying, “ ‘I ought to be chief,’ said Jack with simple arrogance, “because I’m chapter and head boy. I can sing a C charp.” (22). This is where Jack lists all the reasons that he is the best selection of a chief over Ralph, he wanted to persuade the rest of the boys for their vote. Towards, the end of the book we see Jack try to reclaim the already lost authority from Ralph. Jack induces the boys by saying, “ ‘I gave you food’ said Jack, ‘and my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who will join my tribe?” (150) Jack tries to make all the other boys, besides the hunters who already sided with him, to join his new tribe. This attempt for power with going against Ralph, clearly the most knowledgeable leader, displays how Jack only cares to satisfy his coveting of power.

After detecting smoke coming from the island a British naval officer goes to investigate: “I should have thought that a pack of british boys- you’re all british aren’t you- would have been able to put up a better show than that,” (Golding 202). Britain was one of the most advanced societies of the early to mid 1900’s, and complete mayhem emerging out of a group of British boys stranded on an island is more than shocking for the naval officer. It is ironic that the same boys who boldly stated, “We 've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we 're not savages. We 're English, and the English are best at everything,” (Golding 40), quickly regressed into the primal habits of mob mentality. Lord of the Flies was written shortly after World War II. A strong connection can be made between the leadership of the antagonist, Jack, and World War II icon: Hitler. The two leaders both display devoted followers, and a corrupt sense of leadership and control. Golding insists that fear and mob mentality provoke irrational thinking by placing Jack and his followers’ unintelligible response to fear in contrast with Ralph and Piggy’s diplomatic approach. Furthermore, Jack and his followers overcome their fear by providing comfort for each other with a tribal attitude, which ultimately leads to mindless calamity on the island.

Have you ever been on a beach and seen a conch shell and wondered if someone in time used this for civilization? Or even to show leadership? Well if you haven’t, then for sure you will be amazed! In the novel Lord of the Flies, the author William Golding specifically focuses on how a group of children ends up on an unknown island without rules and order in which they become savages and nearly act similarly to animals in one way or another. One symbol in this novel is the conch shell. The conch shell in Lord of the Flies represents leadership and civilization, in which allows Ralph, the leader of the group, to call meetings to order and gives the chance for others to speak; however, it becomes worthless and loses its importance as the story progresses and is shattered at the end, showing how without respect and authority things can lead to savagery.

When William Golding introduced Ralph in his book "The Lord of the Flies" I immediately identified with him. He was somewhat intelligent, yet deferred to logic and truly spent the time to think out a solution to the current crisis, instead of being a demanding dictator, and how to solve them. Golding excellently exhibits Ralph 's abilities near the end of the book when he is trying to figure out how to get out of the burning brush. I have been in dozens situations that demanded immediate attention and solution which reminded me of myself when I had to learn things in a trial by fire method over the years. For example, I come back from lunch and there was a backup on the line. Being the manager on duty at 18 I did not have much experience, yet I immediately sprung into action and started ordering people around which averted a huge crisis.

The fictional novel The Lord of The Flies by William Golding is a book that attempts to trace the defects of society to human nature. The moral is that the shape of the society depends on the ethics of the individuals within it and not the society itself. He also believed that people are naturally evil, as shown in his novel. The facts agree with Golding in that people shape the society because of Jack and his tribe’s.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding and A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah are novels that address different aspects of humanity’s darker side. Lord of the Flies suggests that an extreme obsession for power can lead to a decay of morals and the acceptance of savagery; in contrast, Beah in A Long Way Gone demonstrates that fear and hatred, while they may drive people to commit violent acts, can be overcome with the help of surrounding care and support. The two texts express clear differences in that while Golding creates a fictitious story to describe how greed can simulate the descent into barbarism and the disintegration of the relationship of seemingly inseparable friends, Beah details through his autobiography his personal experiences

Change is inevitable. In Lord of the Flies, three of the characters represent how the human condition can change. Each character handles situations and conditions differently. Their conflicts challenge their existence and eventually lead to their demise. In Lord of the Flies, during the wage of war between good and evil, the true face of everyone is revealed, whether it be Roger, Simon, or the children as a group.

Attempt to sit in your room, stare at a wall, with no human contact, no technology, for 20 minutes straight. Hard isn’t it? Now imagine months upon months on an island with no adults, and no technology at all. This is exactly what the characters in the book Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, had to deal with. This book is about is about a group of boys who previously didn’t know each other and attempt to survive on an island with an ample amount of resources. One of the main characters, Ralph, decides to take charge and lead the boys with his friends Piggy and Simon, but their leadership is challenged by the savage character Jack. Though they attempt to fight isolation, it gets the best of them and the island, and all hell breaks lose. However, the boys do have ways they deal with isolation. The characters in Lord of the Flies cope with isolation by attempting to re-establish society, reminiscing on the past and remaining hopeful that rescue will come.

An issue going around for many years lately has been the abuse of power. It is not always abusing power; It is abusing rights as well. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the abuse of power and rights is represented by only a few characters and is portrayed many times. Ralph and Jack, the two main characters, both abused their power by controlling the actions of the groups. Golding illustrates that having too much power can lead someone or something to making the wrong choices or making the choices that benefit only themselves. Jack and Ralph were put with the task of being in charge of the two groups and to control everyone 's beliefs and ideas about survival. Throughout the paper, the idea of abusing power will be shown by how politicians have abused and taken advantage of their rights, how bullies use their strength to take charge of other people, and also by the idea of dictatorship.

Lord of the Flies, William Golding’s famous novel, reveals the influence that personal advantage can convey in human decisions. The novel describes the diversity in the fundamentals and corruption of power, exemplifying the lure of personal advantage in contrast to a moral sense. When first on the island, the boys held a common view of order and leadership, in which they gravitated to the evidence of classical social order they found in Ralph. As time progressed the group of boys stranded on the island experienced a change in mindset and they rebelled against the classic expectations of society, as the lack of adults on the island led the boys to decide what actions needed to be taken. Jack corrupted Ralph’s authority using the lure of personal advantage and reciprocity, and the conflict between Jack’s goals, driven by personal gain, and Ralph 's goals, driven by a moral sense, caused the boys to act against their morals and thrust Jack into power.

If you were to be stranded on an island with other people whom you have never met in your life, would you be able to cooperate just fine with them? Or would there be a lot of difficulties and obstacles that you would have to face and go through in order to make peace with each other? The novel, The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, shows exactly what can happen when not everyone is willing to work side by side with one another. This novel was very powerful and complex, which not only showed us what can happen if we get pulled too far over or close to the edge, but that the outcome results may not be pretty. The book is relevant to the nuclear war that took place back in the 1950s.

As time passes on the island, the boys are unable to change their clothes; as a result, the clothing become tattered and dirty, which is symbolic of their own human natures emerging as they are disconnected from civilization. Clothing shows the personality of a person, and allows people to express their true selves. In Lord of the Flies, the boys’ clothing becomes stained and filthy, just as their stained and filthy natures slowly emerge throughout the book. At the beginning of the book, the boys’ clothes are clean and free from any dirt:

Every human has different attributes and abilities, but under the circumstance between death and survival the evil natures of human beings seem to show. In William Golding's novel, “Lord of the flies” he displays many different signs on how there’s evil natures in every human being. Jack represents evil and violence, Roger represents strength and human savagery, the group of boys represented cruelty inhuman actions, "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in.”