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Chaos In Lord Of The Flies

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“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.” This is the savage chant used when they first killed a pig in chapter 4. What they said sounds very chaotic and is not something normally said in society. You can tell they are completely fine with killing a pig, spilling its blood and be chaotic. This shows that chaos dominates among the boys, rather than order. The boys are becoming savages only wanting to hunt and kill. We see this with the hunting, chanting and not trying to be civilized. Ralph, who represents order, was trying to get recued using a fire and be build huts. This is civilized. Jack thinks that hunting is more important and he lets the fire go out and the huts weren’t built. Order was being overrun by chaos. Some more examples
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