Lord Of The Flies Sexism Analysis

Racism, Sexism, and Savagery-- Lord of the Flies? In the midst of a raging unspecified nuclear war, it would be tough to survive with a group of boys ranging from the ages of 6-12 attempt to govern themselves on an uninhabited island after their plane crashes. This is the set-up for disaster that author William Golding lays out for his fiction novel, Lord of the Flies. Minus a few choirboys, the boys seem to have never been in contact with each other before; with parents and responsibilities out of sight and out of mind, at first they enjoy their time on the island with no rules. Soon afterwards, logic kicks in and the boys decide to elect a leader and attempt to govern themselves, which turns tragic. After a few objections to the initial leadership, two separate

Violence is prevalent throughout the novel. Immediately after losing the ‘election’, Jack, who later becomes the leader of the savages, or Lord of the Flies, goes hunting for a pig. Giving us a taste of his wicked side, he declares “You cut a pig’s throat to let the blood out” (Golding 31). After failing to kill the pig the author makes it a sense to wickedly declare that next time he will not hesitate to kill one. Following the splitting of the tribes, a boy comes running down to the beach to inform the other boys that the ‘Beast’ is not real; upon arriving, Jack declares that the Beast has taken this boy over and orders his ‘flies’ to “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Golding 152). This is one scene of the book that it might seem like a ban may be appropriate seeing as how the beast that Jack is referring to is a human. Although this scene might seem very gory, with the rise of television, movies, and dystopian, futuristic stories, this can be seen as nothing uncommon in today’s day-and-age which would no longer warrant a ban on this