How Does Golding Present The Civilization In Lord Of The Flies

William Golding was an English writer most well known for his novel Lord of the Flies. Lord of the Flies is about an English group of boys that were on an airplane that got shot down by an enemy. The boys are trying to survive on the island. As they start to come to terms with the fact they are stuck on this island until someone rescues them; they must create a civilization. The main characters throughout the book are Ralph, Jack, Simon, and Piggy. Throughout this book Golding weaves many of his thoughts about civilization. Golding proves in Lord of the Flies that civilization will go corrupt if no rules and order are in practice, the savagery of human nature will take over, and he accurately depicts civilization of the world from a large perspective.

At the end of the novel the boys split into two groups, Jack’s and Ralph’s. Jack’s group was more of the chaos group making them the uncivilized one and enviable ends someone's life. While on the other hand Ralph’s group is more peaceful and is more civil than Jacks’ by far. The most significant example of the chaos of non-civilized humans is when Jack’s group kills Simon and has no remorse because they thought he was the beast emerging from the forest. In reality Simon was trying to warn them about the looming storm that was about to come and strike the island. Golding contrasts these two groups that establishes the difference between civilized compared to the non-civilized humans and makes it obvious. That is because of the rules Ralph puts in place in his group is the reason why they have not become savage and cause chaos on the island. This supports Golding’s main point that he tries to make throughout the whole novel, which is that no civilization within a community will cause chaos among all of them and savagery of human nature will destroy the chance of

In the world’s existence there has not been a civilization that has been able to survive without rules and order because it will not survive as a country without any sort of rules and order. Even the oldest civilization, Mesopotamia, had laws to keep order and peace within the town. Humans have a tendency to get out of control and become savage when they do not have to follow anything. Golding’s example of human nature overtaking is when Jack's group becomes more deranged as time moves on because Jack has absolute power over the boys but does not have any rules when he is the leader. He does however direct the boys to hunt and kill for a sense of thrill with no precautions. As mentioned earlier with the fact that Mestopima had laws to keep the people civil and tamed, and with Jack’s group becoming savage with no rules; Golding was able to carry a powerful message through a fiction novel and be able to relate it to the real