Lord Of The Flies Primitive Analysis

If we are completely honest with ourselves everyone has a dark side to their personalities”(Isabella Rosellini). The situations that human being have been through, may change their identity and personalities. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding tries to demonstrate how the individual’s characteristics change depending on their transition from civilized to primitive. Through the actions and dialogues of Ralph, Jack and Roger, William Golding proves that human nature has two side with both need to be civilized and a need to be primitive. First of all, throughout the novel, even though Ralph symbolizes the civilization and he looks like civilized at first, he goes through several changes from civilized to primitive. For instance, at the beginning of the novel, Ralph suggests to everyone,”And another thing. We can’t have everybody

As an example, at first Jack says” I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we are not savages. We’re English; and English are the best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things”(42). From this quote, you can come upon to view Jack as a civilized boy and he truly believes himself that he is not a savage but after a while, Jack shows his real face which has a big common point with savagery. To give an example, Jack shouts at other ones,”Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong-we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat-!”(99). In this case, Jack has no mercy and he is far away from the civilization because he truly wants to destroy the rules that they set up for being civilized. In these two scenes, Jack’s action draws an increasingly firm line between savagery and civilization. In conclusion, this whole situation by Jack proves that human beings can have contrasting senses in one