In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies the children are thrown into and environment where they’re left with no choice but to fend for themselves in a hazardous and unkown environment. Human corporality when liberated, attracts people away from discreteness and morality to savagery. Lord of the Flies, “concerns a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves.” William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explores the idea that, despite differences in background and personality, anyone can commit heinous deeds, where the principle of civilized behavior has fallen out of use.
Lord of the flies often portrays the contrast in the emotionally availability of the characters, and whether they can make decisive
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He makes it to the beach and is confronted by a British naval officer who was drawn to the island due to the smoke radiating off the fire. The officer verifies that he’ll be able to take them all off the island and Ralph breaks down into grief filled sobs, bawling for all he’s lost. “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.” (Golding 290)
This quote thoroughly explains how the boys stay on the island affected them. Ralph has lost something we will never be able to get back, his innocence. He will grow and learn to accept what happened. However, the feeling will be synonymous to a flesh wound healing but feeling unrelenting pain, regardless. Golding doesn't describe the loss of innocence as something done to children; rather an effect due to their growing awareness to the implicit evil and savagery that's always been within. Golding suggests that savagery can lessen but never be truly eliminated because of the inherent evil that exists in all