Even though most people want to think of themselves as civilized and decent, anyone could be considered a savage. Lord of the Flies is a book written by William Golding about some British boys who crash land on an island and go back to their savage ways. Some might say that the book represents hope for mankind since they are saved in the end. Even though they are rescued, the actual world that they will enter is likely to be just as horrible as the one they are leaving behind. Overall, William Golding portrayed the darkest parts of mankind in Lord of the flies. The boys go for violence over the basic tasks they had to get done in order to create civilization and order on the island.
The book shows that people begin to lose their sense of civilization and structure if they weren't forced to live in a society with law and order. There would be madness and problems without rules and structure. "There was a ship. Out there. You said you'd keep the fire going and you let it out" (Golding, 70). Because they weren't being forced, the boys decided that playing and having fun was much more important to them than having a signal fire and because they were not being rescued that day. All the chaos that followed the incident on the island
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They claim that because they were saved from a horrible island where there was chaos and death, the rest of the world has hope. "He saw a white drill, epaulets, a revolver and a row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform. A naval officer stood on the sand" (Golding, 200). A naval officer who most likely just got back from taking part in a war saves them. The boys are being brought into another world while still being saved from their own terrible one that is just as bad. Because people like to act like animals when they choose to use violence to resolve conflicts, war is an example of the worst parts of