Lord Of The Flies Quotes

Lord of the Flies Quote Study Throughout “Lord of the Flies” many of the characters seem to revert to a more primitive animalistic way of living. The reversion in the characters seems to be caused by a lack of civilization. During the sixth chapter, the uncivilized behavior of some of the boys becomes apparent when the conch, a tool used for calling order, is disregarded “‘conch, conch!’ shouted Jack. ‘We don’t need the conch anymore’”. Jack, like many of the other boys, doesn’t see a need for order. He believes that the boys would be fine as long as they have food, which thanks to him they do. In his opinion survival is what they should be focusing on, not order and rules. Ralph also realizes that his attempts at order were starting to fail, “‘...There’s too much talking out of turn; We can’t have proper assemblies if

The rules they agreed to follow were being completely disregarded. Like Ralph said, the assemblies were going to soon be impossible to do and all order would soon be gone. The animalistic tendencies were already becoming quite visible in the boys, as shown through their apparent disregarding for rules. In the fifth chapter, Jack makes the situation worse by stating his opinion and making the others feel as if they should follow his lead, “‘Bollocks to the rules’ … the assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter”. This in itself shows how the group was quickly dematerializing, but Ralph further proves the point just one page later when he hesitates to use the conch, “if I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” Ralph's reaction to Piggy's request of blowing the conch emphasizes the fact that their attempt at civilization is rapidly failing. Ralph, the leader, knows his group well enough to realize that the chances of them