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Lord Of The Flies Persuasive Speech

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the 2018 Festival of Dangerous Ideas. I am here today to examine whether the greatest threat to civilisation is humanity itself? I strongly believe that, humanity is most definitely the greatest threat to civilisation. While Lord of the Flies was first published in 1954 by William Golding as a response to the rise of Nazism and after the horrors of human evil witnessed during World War II, it still speaks directly to our world today in 2018 where nations and world leaders such as Xi Jinping, Kim Jon Un and Vladimir Putin continue to fight for world domination because of their greed for power. Golding uses each of the characters in the play to represent an element of man’s personality to show that when a man’s own survival is threatened, man will abandon all rules, morals and decency to survive. This play …show more content…

He uses his authority to set rules to protect the common good of the group by trying to enforce the morals and laws of the English society that the boys grew up in. The rule to use the conch shell when speaking allowed each boy to speak freely in turn. The conch is a symbol for democracy and represents civilisation which at the beginning unifies the boys. The conch allows for everyone to get an equal say and for their ideas to be listened to. This is much like our democratic system of government today. However, the opposite of democracy is communism, autocracy and dictatorship. Towards the end of the play, as the boys became more determined to survive, the conch began to lose its affect as the civilisation the boys created, moves away from democracy, where everyone has an equal say, to an autocracy or a dictatorship, where one person, Jack, had absolute power over everyone else. The play shows that as humans are pushed to survive, they are willing to do anything to do so including to abandon rules and laws which results in

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But some boys who would hold the conch did not get the authority to speak, and that symbolized how such a governed civilization can go downhill quickly. Throughout the novel, the conch symbolizes democracy but when it breaks it symbolizes destruction. The conch represented a democracy, and the boys were of order during the time it was in use. At the start of the story, Ralph and Piggy found the conch.

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Ralph states about the conch, “‘I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking’” (Golding 33). In the beginning of the book, the conch symbolizes government and power. Ralph states that the conch will give the right of a person to talk which shows how the conch is keeping order around for the boys like a government.

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The conch represents democracy, respect, order, and power in the novel. Ralph and Piggy find the conch in the chapter one and Piggy said to use the conch to “call the others and have meetings”. Whenever the boys have a meeting around the campfire, the person holding the conch is the only one allowed to speak. This is shown in chapter one again when Ralph used the conch to control the crowd and it said “They obeyed the summons of the conch, partly because Ralph blew it, and he was big enough to be a link with the adult world of authority.” That created a mutual respect for everyone's ideas.

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The first quote that shows us how important the Conch is when Piggy and Ralph used the conch to call the other boys when they taught they were alone on the island, “The conch, we can use this to call others. Have a meeting, they’ll come when they hear us (p. 16)” .We also do see how the boys are attracted to the conch like a magnet and quickly goes to the person who blows the conch, “By the time Ralph had finish blowing the Conch, the platform was crowded (p. 32)” .Besides that, the Conch also is an idea of civilization, rules and law.

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