William Golding 's Lord Of The Flies

Similar to most literary classics, William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies contains allusions to the Christian Bible and character archetypes that convey universal ideas. Golding’s story focuses on a group of British schoolboys who are stranded on an island and ultimately succumb to their innate savage tendencies. Literary analysts often compare components of Lord of the Flies to various aspects in the Christian Bible. For instance, the setting in Lord of the Flies is often linked to the Garden of Eden, and some characters are thought to have religious-inspired names. Critics believe Simon’s name originates from Jesus Christ’s disciple, Peter, whose name was originally Simon. Biblical allusions exist throughout the novel associated with

English novelist and politician Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, once said, “The pen is mightier than the sword.”. We,as humans, have always had the feeling of fear. No matter how many people say they don’t have that feeling, they have it somewhere within them. This fear has always thrived us to think in a radical way and has pushed us to make some good and bad choices in life. Because of this fear human beings have felt the need to protect themselves as much as possible and they believe that by having the most sizable, vigorous, and lavish weapons, they will be safe and protected from all harm and will keep order within society stable. But what Lytton wants us to realize in his quote is that you really don’t

Things work out well for Ralph at first. He takes charge over the boys and tells them what they need to accomplish for rescue and survival. The ways of the organized and civil society he learned back home in Britain show through in the method he uses in explaining the tasks the boys needed to complete. He approaches things from an organized, logical, and practical manner and thinks first about being rescued. Immediately after being elected leader and satisfying Jack, another prominent character in the novel, by allowing him to choose the task of his choir boys, Ralph says, “If this isn’t an island we might be rescued straight away. So we’ve got to decide if this is an island” (23). As further proof of his practicality, upon discovering the fact that no one inhabits the island, Ralph explains that the boys need to build a signal fire to attract any passing ships.

To be an effective society, itś important to have a few key qualities such as teamwork or cooperation and order. These make achieving goals much easier, and in the end, it leads to success by completing the tasks needed to get towards the goal, whether that be obtaining food or conquering an entire continent. In Golding 's Lord of the Flies, a lack of mutual respect between the leaders and followers as well as the failure to unite themselves to work together for the same goals, resulted in chaos, and ultimately, the division and failure of their society on the island.

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes” (Peter Drucker). In the novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a decent sized group of boys are marooned on an island. This island starts as somewhat of an oasis, containing everything that the boys need to survive and thrive, except for one thing: a leader. One of the older boys would need to step up, and it comes down to Ralph, a boy around the age of twelve who finds the conch, which is used as a beacon for civilization, and Jack, a boy of Ralph’s age, but is also the leader of a group of choir boys, who advocate for Jack from the beginning. The decision comes down to a vote, and Ralph is chosen with all the

One group of boys staying with Ralph, he helps his group maintain sanity and recognize the negative consequences of the mask. Contrary to previous statements regarding Jack’s boys and their savagery, Ralph’s control over his boys leads them to find a sense of content with the hope of being rescued and the goal of survival. Ralph often reminds the boys in meetings “We want to have fun. And we want to be rescued” (Golding 37), and further reveals his true intelligence when he never wears a mask and neither do any of his boys. In the end of the novel, Ralph reiterates his ideas and recognizes “They (Jack’s tribe) understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought” (Golding 172).

As people age, they generally tend to transform from young and oblivious children into wise and aware adults. A group of young boys arrived on the island as proper English schoolboys, but months later, they left as dirty, unkempt savages. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, an array of young school boys find themselves stranded on an island as a result of a plane crash during World War Two. With no adults, rules, and nothing holding them back, they are left to fend for themselves. In the beginning, the boys elect Ralph as chief, and begin to gradually become accustomed to the island. Near the middle, the boys begin to divide themselves. Jack Merridew, once an innocent choir boy, is now transforming himself and

There are many factors that influence how people behave once on their own in an area without rules. The human race will fall apart without a set of rules that apply to them. When left on its own, and given an opportunity, human nature will revert back to the inherent savagery that lies within. In the book Lord of the Flies a British plane crashes on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere. The only survivors are a group of boys, and without any adults, the kids are left to fend and govern for themselves. Throughout the rest of the book, groups start to form and fight against each other. When the two groups fight for authority against each other things start to get out of hand.

Innocence is usually referring to children who have not experienced, or have no knowledge about the evils and sufferings of the real world. However, at some point of your life you will lose that innocence and what is it replaced by? Maturity? In the novel Lord of the Flies, the author, William Golding includes many symbols throughout the story, that represent the corruption taking place inside the boys, as they survive on the island. Thus, throughout the story the symbols that best represent the boys’ transformation from innocence to savagery are the clearing as it changes from a natural paradise to a dystopia, the chant that signifies the boys fall deep into savagery, and the death of Piggy and Simon, which mark the

On the surface, laws are often viewed as restrictions that take away from personal freedom. Many see rules as a type of control and it’s easy to make sense of the idea that without laws, we would have absolute freedom. However, philosopher John Locke did not agree with this concept and stated, “For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” This paradox claims just the opposite; that without law there is no freedom. Locke’s theory can be applied to William Golding’s Lord of the Flies through his characters’ actions in Chapters 4-6.

How does being stranded on a remote island sparsely populated with young boys who trying desperately to establish and maintain order reflect our society? In fact, William Golding holds important messages for the reader about how the purpose and peril of government remain relevant as metaphors of modern politics. Today, government substantially influences our lives in many aspects for the better or in some instances for the worse. In Lord of the Flies methods of control, propaganda, along with opposing militant governmental ideologies instill fear upon the boys which eventually lead to their downfall. Military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military.

Is it a person’s genetic biological make up that affects their decision making or is it outside environmental influences that impact choices? I think that the internal factors have more of an impact on a person’s behavior. In the book Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, both factors seem to take part in what caused the boys to turn into savages. Considering that not all the boys turned into savages it helps prove that the bad genes inside versus the good genes played more of a roll and not so much the external environment, in who turned wild and who tried to keep up with the rules of society they knew before they crash landed on the island. Jack and Roger seemed to be the real “bad seeds” and without adults they became leader of the cruel, savages behavior on the island. Whether it was the way they were raised or they were just bad genetics, all it took was for Jack not getting his way. When all the boys voted for chief and Jack was not chosen he starts falling into his role as the bad guy.

In 1954, William Golding wrote his book Lord of The Flies in response to the book, The Coral Island. The story takes place in World War 2, and in the middle of a wartime evacuation of English schoolchildren, the plane crashes on an island of the Pacific ocean. The pilot dies, leaving the only survivors to be middle childhood or preadolescent boys. Two of the survivors, Ralph and Piggy, find a conch which Ralph uses to call the other survivors together. The group elects Ralph as chief, and they work together to survive. However, the group begins to fear a “beast” on the island and Jack, the leader of hunters in the group creates a power struggle with Ralph, the chief using the fear of the beast to gain influence over the rest of the boys. Later on, Jack creates his own tribe and leaves a severed pig’s head on a stick as an offering to the beast. One of the boys named Simon, walks alone and finds the severed pig’s head. He then envisions it has the “Lord of the Flies”, who tells him that the beast is actually inside themselves. Learning this, Simon runs to tell the boys the truth about the beast, at the same time Jack and his tribe are doing the dance. Simon then finds the tribe, but is ironically killed by the boys when they mistake him for the beast. Afterwards, Jack’s tribe attack what remains of Ralph’s group and takes Piggy’s glasses, the only means of lighting a fire on the island. Deserted by most of the group, Ralph, Piggy, twins Sam and Eric, goes to the tribe and

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals offers an account of the historical development of morals and values from their earliest origin in the basic forms of human social interaction. More specifically, Nietzsche’s account theorizes about the origins of power and ethics and their implications on society. William Golding’s Lord of Flies exemplifies Nietzsche’s fundamental beliefs concerning power and ethics through the distinct characters and their power struggles on the island. In an absence of civilization and social controls, true nature is revealed through the characters in the novel and the power struggles that develop on the island. Similarly to Nietzsche’s beliefs, Golding uses the plot of Lord of the Flies as “an attempt to trace

This novel was written during WWII and one can deduce that the war is the reason why the boys were on the plane and it is the cause of death of the man on the parachute.