Conch In Lord Of The Flies

society. The first time the conch was used was in the assembly. Ralph says “ I'll give the conch to the next person to speak…. He can hold it while he is seaking” (chapter 2). That is what they believed that the boys together and organized to get things done. Ralph wants the boys to have an equal say and opinion when it comes to being one society. The conch has been used against the “beast” to keep them together. Jack becomes apart of the evil towards the end to the point where he worships it. The beast starts off as the “snake thing”- vine like thing, that then leads up to The Lord of the Flies. But as said in the Christian Religion “It was the snake that led Eve to eat from that tree of knowledge”. But at this point in the story, fear from the

In the beginning of the story they say the beast is the snake like thing that follows and takes over the forests, to turn out to be the parachute guy who is interpreted to be all evil. The boys belief in the beast led to them acting their age (7-12) and becoming more like savages. Their fear brought out the savagery in them which created them to disobey the set guidelines that Ralph initially had in place, led by Jack, which demonstrated out on the idea of savagery. A way that William Golding shows conflict between civilization and savagery is when jack and his hunters go after the first boar. Jack screams, “Kill the pig, cut her throat, spill the blood”. (Chapter 4). This shows the aggression and the violence that the boys grew to have when it came down to killing the pig and they didn’t care about it. Jack's’