Fire In Lord Of The Flies

In the book Lord Of the Flies by William Golding good is the idea of a civilized society using law and order, while bad or chaos is savagery or primitive ideas. primitive by the fact that their is no repercussions for your actions. Fire doesn't change depending on who’s using it, the person with the tool of fire chooses how to use it. In the story the idea of law and order in a civilization changes to primitive actions without repercussions.

In the beginning of the book fire is solely being thought about as hope for a ship to arrive so they can return back to civilization. This point is supported when jack says, “There’s another thing. We can help them find us” (38). The narrator tell us the important of the fire when he says, “Life became

At this point the idea of fire for to regain civilization has lost its grasp in jack's eyes and now turns to power and survival. Jack is telling the rest of his tribe the plan for stealing the fire and shows his transition to primitive behavior when saying, “We shall take the fire from the others. Listen tomorrow we’ll hunt and get meat, tonight i’ll go along with two hunters, who’ll come” (161). Ralph is extremely mad at Jack and he is beaten up and tired when he tells piggy, “They’ve got our fire, they stole it” (169). The passage shows people the transition from enlightened thinking to crude and barbaric behaviors. When Jack could have asked for fire, instead he aggressively attacks the other

All hope and goodwill has fallen into the hands of jack who is trying to fulfill his hunger for power. The characteristics of the fire are described by the narrator when he say, “The fire was a nice big one… couldn’t a fire outrun a galloping horse” (197). This quote is not only showing the power of the fire but in a way it is ironic. The fire being used as a primitive tool for hunting actually brings civilization back to the tribe filled with savagery. The fire brought the ship which is symbolizing law and