The Loss Of Innocence By William Golding

They are lost and alone, no one around, just them, the ocean and a tropical paradise. With no civilization, no regulations, or even mild things like a place to sleep, the young boys will find find out what they must do to survive alone in the unknown. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding the theme loss of innocence is clearly demonstrated throughout the book. The proper British boys were on a plane that crashed onto a tropical island. Without adults and the oldest boy being twelve, the boys must learn to survive themselves. Without civilization and authority to guide them, they turn to savagery and violence. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding portrays loss of innocence by exhibiting how people change when they realize what they

     As the boys on the island progress from well-behaved, orderly children longing for rescue to cruel, bloodthirsty hunters who have no desire to return to civilization, they naturally lose their innocence that they possessed earlier in the novel. But Golding does not portray this loss of innocence as something that is done to the children; rather, it results naturally from their increasing openness to the innate evil and savagery that has always existed within them.

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.

In the story “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, he shows how the boys lost all innocence and civilization. The boys went from having innocent child minds to taking lives of other people, acting savage, and losing all civilization due to problems on the island. The boys had forgotten where they came from and became savage in order to survive; it was the need of survival that caused the loss of innocence among the boys.

Foreshadowing was a commonly used literary device the the author used in order to illustrate the point of view of Rainford, a character oblivious of what was to come in his future and what he was going to experience pertaining to emotional problems associated with hunting. Before Rainsford aborted his ship and swam to the mysterious island, he wasn’t sure of what laid ahead besides remarks his shipmates made before portraying the nature of an island close the area they were sailing in. (Connell pg 1) “The place has a reputation, a bad one.” This shows that Rainsford is in dangerous waters, but he doesn’t quite understand why. He also questions the words of his shipmates with a cleverly placed word. (Connell pg 1) “Cannibals?” A cannibal is when a member of a specific species eats its own flesh. This is hinting toward the idea of murder in the form of hunting for sport, one human harming another, without considering their victims emotions. Another somewhat iry form of foreshadowing which the

In A Separate Peace, John Knowles carries the theme of the inevitable loss of innocence throughout the entire novel. Several characters in the novel sustain both positive and negative changes, resulting from the change of the peaceful summer sessions at Devon to the reality of World War II. While some characters embrace their development through their loss of innocence, others are at war with themselves trying to preserve that innocence.

Notwithstanding power and its means to cultivate one’s evil ways, the loss of innocence, a phase that many individuals in Lord of the Flies go through, has proven to create and support an evil demeanor. Take Roger for instance, a cold hearted boy, yet still conditioned and civilized near the beginning of the novel. “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss.”(64).The fact that he “threw to miss” can be interpreted as “not crossing the line”, the line symbolizing a limit to rudeness or bad behavior. Although Roger isn’t the kindest of characters to begin with, his innocence that comes with the rules and boundaries placed by his parents/guardians is not tainted…yet. This psychological line, along with his values and morals is overthrown when Roger murders Piggy in cold blood. “High overhead, Rodger with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned all his weight on the lever.”(200). Roger intentionally triggered the boulder to roll down the cliff, killing Piggy instantly. Thus the innocence that would’ve stopped him from doing this terrible

Have you ever had to survive a life threatening situation? All over the world innocent people are being put into situations that they have to move against the odds if they want to survive. Many may not be able to survive, but for others it is a completely different story. They survive the deadly situations. In able to survive a life threatening situation a person has to be educated in the land and wildlife, they must have proper equipment, and they must have a strive to survive.

    Despite the progression of civilization and society's attempts to suppress man's darker side, moral depravity proves both indestructible and inescapable; contrary to culturally embraced views of humanistic tendencies towards goodness, each individual is susceptible to his base, innate instincts. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, seemingly innocent schoolboys evolve into bloodthirsty savages as the latent evil within them emerges. Their regression into savagery is ironically paralleled by an intensifying fear of evil, and it culminates in several brutal slays as well as a frenzied manhunt. The graphic consequence of the boys' unrestrained barbarity, emphasized by the

Foreshadowing creates suspense for what is going to happen later in the story. The author   gives subtle hints as to what is going to happen later in the story. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck tells a story of two people, George and Lennie, who move place to place in search of a new job during the Great Depression. In the novel Steinbeck foreshadows the death of Curlys wife, the death of Lennie, and the loss of the dream by giving subtle hints to readers throughout the story.       

In the novel, The Lord of the Flies, the author William Golding shows the audience lots of points of humanity. In the beginning, the boys had found themselves on an uninhabited island, which had made them far from society. Golding is trying to reveal that when humans are getting far away from society, they start to do inhumanely things. This is like when Jack desired to be “chief.” Not being “chief” had made Jack very furious, as time goes by, his actions had affected the whole group. One of the people that has been affected by Jack was Ralph. Ralph was very civilized in the beginning, but then his actions had changed because of his nature. Throughout the novel, William Golding symbolizes that human beings are savages by nature. Piggy was

As humans, we understand the harsh reality that is in our world. In Graham Greene’s short story, “The Destructors,” a gang of young British boys are living in a post-WWII world. They have never known what it is to live in “normal” London—buildings still intact, having enough food, less homelessness. The gang’s harmless delinquency throughout the story deepens the readers’ understanding of the effects of war on humanity by illustrating the loss of innocence in these boys and specifically revealing the damage in the both superficial and embedded in their lives. The theme of emotional damage construed in the story is literary in the sense that it explains a somber truth: World War II initiated the loss of innocence in the youth of the countries involved.

Children are often referred to as “tiny terrors” and other troublemaker terms. Parents joke about their monstrous side and use consequences to teach the difference between right and wrong. It is a widely accepted fact that, when left alone, children act on raw instinct. William Golding believes that all humans will behave this way. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses psychological allegory to illustrate that mankind will create their own enemies and descend into savagery without consequences, constant reminders of authority.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a gritty allegory of adolescence, innocence, and the unspoken side of human nature. Countless social issues are portrayed, however one of the most reoccurring is the nature of man. Throughout the novel there is an ever-present focus on the loss of innocence amongst the boys, shown by the deterioration of social skills and their retrogression into a barbaric form of society. Also portrayed is the juxtaposition of a cruel, evil main character and a more classically good counterpart, and their eternal rivalry for power and authority over their younger subjects. Does society or the lack thereof create evil in human nature, or simply magnify a pre-existing

William Golding was born on the nineteenth of September in 1911, in Cornwall, England. His mother fought for women’s right to vote and his father was a schoolmaster (Biography.com Editors). In his early life he attended Marlborough Grammar School. Around the age of twelve he tried to write his own book, but of course he did not succeed. William said that he often bullied his peers as an outlet for his frustration; “I enjoyed hurting people” was his response when he was asked how he would describe his younger self. After Marlborough Grammar School William went to Brasenose College at Oxford University to study literature. His very first work, a book of poetry, was published one year before his graduation from Brasenose College (Biography.com