Many individuals face constraints at some point in their lives; however, overcoming them can be difficult. William Golding explores the significance of an individual's attempt to survive unconstrained by convention or circumstance in his novel young boys ranging from the Ages of six to Twelve years of age let go of the rules and society they once held onto after being stuck on an island for a while and having their instincts control them leading them to a dark path into evil. Although many of these children want to go home, they can’t seem to want to go as they are away from consequences, and the author indicates that individuals cannot survive without constraints. The elected of the boys in the beginning part of the novel, Ralph is the boy's primary source of power, …show more content…
Ralph being on the island makes him realize the extent of evil within him. (quote book here) At this point, Ralph goes through an emotional and physical change. At this particular point in this book, Ralph's savage side is awakened, and his reason for having a signal fire disappears. Ralph's final attempt at survival realizes that everyone around him is turned and recognizes that humans can be evil. Running away and having a stick sharpened at both ends; the stick pointed at both ends shows that as much as he is trying to protect himself from the boys who are now savages, he is also hunting himself in the end as well, showing he has also descended into complete savagery. The only reason he is saved at the end of the novel isn't that he is strongest and is the fittest but because he relies on this set of rules and hopes that he is going to survive and is going to be rescued, which he is by the naval officer, and now burden by his new knowledge of