Disobeying The Law In Lord Of The Flies

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Is law, even that important? What would you expect from a bunch of young kids stranded on an island without any supervision, and no parents. What are they supposed to do? Would the law still apply to them even if they are stranded on an island? In the movie Lord of the Flies by William Golding. There were numerous amounts of kids that were stranded on an island. These kids started off with one main group that later kids decided to make their own group and do whatever they wanted to. The two groups, later had a rivalry between each other. They started with killing one of their own group members with a long stick. Next off, the dysfunctional group had thrown a boulder of a cliff on the child. in the movie Lord of the Flies is clearly shows that these kids were clearly unsuitable for the situation that …show more content…

Not only was the law disobeyed, but it was also, disrespectful to others. Hidden underneath of everyone’s skin, there is an urge obeying the law or disobeying the law. Many people have the urge to do good and many people don’t it’s just the way life works. In the situation that these kids were in, it was a difficult choice to make. For example, a bunch of them were cast into an island, with nothing to survive on. The supervisor was not in shape to help all these kids. In my opinion, you should be able to minimally cooperate with the law. This mean’s do what’s right unless it’s unsafe to do so. Now this doesn’t mean kill the civilians on the island because you don’t like them. It should to a certain extent. Another example is, in the movie you will see that a couple of kids steal Piggy’s glasses, which is considered theft. My opinion about this would be that you could counter this in two ways. One being both groups learns how they can cooperate with each other and ask them for help and, two is that one of them could have just borrowed the glasses. If these two steps were done, you wouldn’t