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Apocalyptic Situation In Lord Of The Flies

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When it comes to an apocalyptic situation, this will make a species do anything to survive; even inhumane and violent acts may be summoned if the species feels threatened. The Lord of The Flies by William Golding is a novel about a large group of kids being placed in an apocalyptic situation and having to survive without adult supervision for the first time. The kids face a plane crash on a desolate island where they must assume leadership roles, find food, communicate, work together, and try to find rescue from the island. However, a disconnect occurs within leadership roles which causes a separation in the group, which will become a colossal problem later in the story. When Youth and fear are combined together, the primitive fight or flight response in the human body will trigger and act more plainly as the guiding hand in any young boy's thought process; acting in a very negative and finicky way. Jack and Ralph are the two 'running candidates' of the island, out of the two …show more content…

There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island . . . Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!" (5.79) As the quote previously states, Jack proceeds to say fear can't hurt any more than a dream. The reason why he is wrong is because deep within Jack lies fear, hence the reason he will turn into a primitive killing machine later on in the book and develop a pack of young boys to do any of his bidding. There also is a beast, which Jack doesn't know exists yet. The beast is spawned by Jack's youth and fear, which exposes Jack's instability and fear of being stranded alone away from society. Although Jack previously mentions he doesn't want to leave the island, his fear has caused him to think this way, and because he is an inexperienced youth, his brain is more vulnerable to being corrupted of fear and doing unpredictable things. "[Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.

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By this point every child on the island has some belief that the beast is real and it is in the jungle. Jack uses this idea to ruin any hold on civilization the boys may have left. He leaves them worried and scared and the hold that Ralph had on them in the beginning fades quickly. He is longer able to control them or keep them safe from their nightmares. By the end of this chapter the boys slowly fade into Jacks group and thin only increases his savagery and furthers him from civilization.

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At first, Jack makes fun of them for being afraid and crying all the time, instead of them helping on the island, then he states that fear can’t hurt them. The littluns are still frightened so Jack reassures them there is no beast,“Well then-I’ve been all over this island. By myself. If there were a beast I’d have seen it.” (Golding 83).

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This quote shows Jack reassuring the boys that there is no beast and that they’re being consumed by the fear of something that doesn't even exist. This is an example of the boys' society being civilized at the start of the story by Jack having the common rationality to explain this to the others. Although Jack thinks this now, as he and many others descend into savagery their fear of the beast converts into the belief in its existence, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!

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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, is a classic novel about a group of schoolboys stuck on an island where fear and savagery consumes them. From the beginning of the book to the last page fear has a prominent role in the novel. Fear in the book manifests itself with many thoughts including what the littluns refer to as the beast, and the fear of not getting home. Fear leads some of the boys to make regrettable decision and it also leads Jack to a position of power. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding fear dominates the island that the boys are stranded on and this fear leads the boys to positions of power and influences some of the boys to make regrettable decisions.

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Jack makes the boys believe that the beast will not hurt them as long as they do what he says, this gives Jack more control over the boys. When Jack and his hunters go hunting, they find a sow and kill it. When they

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“When we was coming down I looked through one of them windows. I saw the other part of the plane. There were flames coming out of it”(Golding 8). The novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding starts with a group of boys whom their plane is shot down, as the story takes place in World War Two. The British boys are stranded on the island with no adults around.

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The others on the island are faced with 2 people to follow and have to make a choice; Jack, or Ralph. Ralph was originally elected to lead and Jack was assigned to lead the group of hunters. However, Jack later challenges Ralph's authority and attempts to over take him. Jack successfully convinces most of the boys and gains their support and loyalty. His ideologies consist of more aggressive practices

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The boys are scared of the beast, and Jack does a better job of easing their fear because Ralph doesn't care about easing the fear of the beast among the boys, and focuses on rescue, but Jack focuses on the beast, and eliminating it. The boys’ main fear is the beast, and since Jack hunts, he makes the boys feel comfortable with him leading them to defend them from the beast. Jack has found out what motivates the boys by understanding what they want most. The boys feel less scared in Jack’s tribe is when the boys are scared to go to the mountain because of the beast, but Jack gives them a sense of safety that they can kill anything, and be stronger than anything or anyone. To illustrate, Jack says “And about the beast.

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Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is a novel that tells the story of a plane full of English schoolboys, evacuating the ongoing war, crashing near an island, leaving them marooned. With there being no adults or supervision the boys are left to fend and survive on their own. A boy by the name of Ralph is picked as their chief and he organizes fire and shelter. Another boy by the name of Jack, who is leader of the choir boys that were on the plane takes that group hunting. Over the during of the novel, the hunters become savage especially under the influence of jack.

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Many people and experiences changed Jack on the island, and Jack changed many people. Mostly, Jack created the beast that everyone feared, which was themselves, due to savagery. Jack lost his sanity and civility, which changed him in more ways than imaginable. Jack was

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Fear, the Destruction of Reason People often use reason in making decisions, but when scared all reason can be thrown out the window. In William Golding’s allegorical novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of British school boys becomes stranded on an island. The group attempts to create a civilized tribe whose goal is to get rescued from the island. Soon any trace of their civilized manor is diminished by the boys fear of the unknown.

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As Jack becomes more restless on the island, it is evident that savagery becomes satisfying for him. Almost like he needs to kill to breathe, like this was the missing piece of his life that he can now satisfyingly appeal to. “His mind was covered with memories…knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.” (Golding, 74). Jack denies the ideas of the beast similarly to Piggy.

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Every child comes into this world as a selfish, manipulative, cruel and stubborn being. It is the parents and society that teaches children how to function in a civilized world, and societal laws that keeps them under control. William Golding wrote this novel in the early years of the cold war and the atomic age. In William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Jack, a young savage who looks to lead a group of stranded kids on an island with no food, no rules, and no adults. The effect freedom has on Jack has turned him into a savage because he does not have to listen to anyone since there are no adults on the island.

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The want for power strengthens and his hunger increases, but what he was unaware of was the fact that he was destroying his own mind. He was brainwashed by his surroundings to think that in that situation, it was acceptable. Jack’s evilness has officially broken everyone's norms on the island. These young boys have been exposed to the wild and this has destroyed the minds’ of these kids and has turned the kids into

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Being on the island everyone is contsantly faced with the fear of the unknown the younger boys need someone to protect them from the fears on the island. Although nothing manages to scare the boys as much as the beastie does. When a little boy with a mullberry birthmark informs everyone that he has seen a beastie. The older boys emitiatly belive its his imagination but even later in the novel the boys start to question the exsitance of the beast. After the killing of simion, jack is belives ut was simon disguised as the beast, and that the beast is not dead.

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