A Collapsed Society Civilization and order is what separates humans from animals, but chaos ensues when the basics of society are removed. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, several English students crash land and scar a tropical deserted island, during a war, without adults or parental figures. Ralph, the protagonist, seeks to have an orderly and non chaotic life, but Jack, the antagonist, and the rest of the survivors, have other plans as they begin to become savages, killing two of their fellow students in the process. Ralph and the others are unable to have a successful society that he strives for because of, leadership struggles, harsh living conditions, and conflict and anger among the fellow survivors. Although Ralph have leadership skills, Jack leaves the …show more content…
This is one of the biggest issues that the boys face on the island; they all want to feel invisible and strong, but they needed to learn that the easiest way to be strong is by being a team. A football team wouldn’t function if there was only one or two people or if there was two groups on the same team; it would be chaos and a not the well oiled team that football is. The same goes for the children on the island they all wanted to be the “quarterback” and no one wanted to be the “linemen” so instead of being one big team they separated into two small vulnerable teams. The bad blood starts before Jack and Ralph separates. Jack resents Ralph ever since he is elected as chief and because of that poor relationship between the two the “society” that they are striving for collapses. Jack wanted to feel strong and invincible but couldn’t because Ralph always has an authority over him, so in order to feel superior, Jack made a separate group so that he could be the leader and feel invincible. All of these subjects are the product of the collapse of society on the