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The Terrible Tragedy In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies displays that when human beings are left without structure, or displaced from society that they do in fact revert into impulsive animals, wanting to do anything in order to satisfy a hunger for immediate satisfaction. As a slightly depressed and hungry Ralph and Piggy begrudgingly make their way over to Jack’s tribe’s feast to indulge in whatever food is offered to them, later on in the feast, a terrible tragedy occurs as the boys transform into complete savages after chanting breaks out and adrenaline starts to rush. The terrible tragedy that does indeed occur is when, “The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its

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