Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a movie about a group of young, preteen boys who get stranded on an island. It tells the story of the boys’ time on the island, and how their attempt at civilization was ultimately a disaster. It is wrong to say that the boys’ actions were the result of the human survival instinct. This is because they did many horrible things that they did not have to do to survive. For instance, the wild hunting chant and dance that Jack’s tribe did, that resulted in Simon’s death.
Simon is the only boy who doesn't appear to be afraid of the forest. It might be because he knows that he's safer alone than with the other boys. This quote represents fear, because it shows Simon doesn’t mind being alone in the forest, while the rest other boys are too scared to be alone. It also shows that Simon much rather prefers to be alone than with all the other boys, because of all the savagery that's been going on. Simon is different from the other boys, because he is both an independent and a very observant person.
William Golding's book Lord of the Flies, shows how evil humans are at heart. The book is about a group of British boys who crash on an island and slowly turn savage. Jack and Ralph are split into two groups and after all the conflict ends up with people dead. William Golding in his book Lord of the flies tells us that people are more evil than good. This is shown in the killing of Simon, the killing of Piggy, and the killing of the sow.
"Ralph launched himself like a cat, stabbing, snarling, with the spear, and the savage doubled up." The Lord of the Flies by William Golding presents this character, Ralph, as trying very hard to fend for himself, even if it isn't in a conventional, civilized way. As shown in this example, people have been known to go to great lengths and to do things they would not ordinarily do to survive. For instance, Jack, a main character in the story, attacked another human, brutally and violently hunted an animal, and murdered a living, breathing person he was acquaintances with.
Ralph shows His responsibility starting from the very beginning of the Novel by gathering all of the scattered boys to the beach and caught everyone up to speed on the current situation, while also establishing a sort of order by agreeing to have an election, which Ralph won. “‘Him with the shell.’ ‘Ralph! Ralph!’ ‘Let him be chief with the trumpet-thing.’” (Golding, 29 online) this quote shows that the boys on the island trust Ralph enough to elect him chief and Govern them.
First, Ralph believes he and the group of boys will be rescued. “We want to be rescued; and of course we shall be rescued” (Golding 51). The boys are better off believing that they will be rescued, because this makes them work harder to stay alive. This also brings happiness and joy to the other boys as they have just seen that Ralph has taken the role as leader. And this effects the outcome of the novel by at least giving them a little hope that they will be saved, which extended their tolerance for each
When in stories, the author can use different philosophy to make a scene. In the book Lord Of The Flies written by William Golding, he wrote the book about a group of brisin school boy and mostly focus on a boy name ralph and his story on the island and how everything went down. The author showed how Ralph felt through society and nature, being stranded on the island, Jack Tribe, The structure of society, the important part of life, and did he stay true to his beliefs. Ralph wanted the tribe to work as one so they could be a society.
Stepping away from the book, we see that for most of the story Ralph takes control of the situation and handles it like an adult; most of the time he is very devoted to getting back home. In this first meeting, however, Ralph doesn’t seem to care. When the meeting is underway, Ralph isn’t very serious and he says, “seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things,”(22). He says this almost as if they are playing a game in gym class; he doesn’t really mean it. Once again, Ralph isn’t in a rush to get off of the island and although this could be because of many different reasons, one of them is most definitely that there is no one there to tell him what to do.
There must be a leader or ruler, in order to have a successful society or civilization . In The Lord Of The Flies Jack, who opposes Ralph’s beliefs, creates an absolute anarchy due to not enacting rules and order. Ralph forms rules such as keeping a signal fire, the conch, giving people jobs;, furthermore, on Jack’s side they display savage, and killing personalities. The boys state “we’ve got to have rules and obey them,” then a group comes about to start a fire and the other to go hunting (Golding 42). The civilized system keeps everybody safe, and protected from each other on the island.
At the beginning of the novel, Ralph is elected leader of the boys. Throughout the story, Ralph exercises the right to tell the other boys what to do, and usually makes the decisions about what the group is going to do and how they should do it. This passage reveals that Ralph is a believer in order and a natural-born leader. The statement made about humanity through Ralph is that humans naturally crave order. The first thing Ralph wanted to do when he crash landed on the island was to organize parties to discover where they had landed and what they could do about it.
Jack and Ralph, characters in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, share similarities in their desire for leadership. In the time the boys were castaway on the island, both boys were leaders. They both enjoyed the control over the tribe of boys when it is in their possession. When the tribe voted Ralph as chief, “...the freckles on Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification.” (Golding 23).
Grace Johnson Kendrick HELA 9, 4th Hour 5 April 2024 The Power Chaos Can Hold This one quote, “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”
My favorite quote from Lord of the Flies is the very last sentence in the book. “He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance” (Golding 291) I like this section because the author subtly calls attention to the message he’s been writing about at all along. When the officer first arrives as a beacon on the beach, he scolds the boys for their savagery and unbridled, violent behavior. He is disgusted at their careless fires devouring the landscape and their adamant desire to kill their enemies since the young British boys are supposed to be well-bred and civilized.
Lord of the Flies (1954), written by William Golding, helped me most to understand the complexity of the world. In the midst of an unnamed war, a plane carrying a group of British boys is shot down over a deserted island. The boys, without adult supervision, initially set up rules to govern themselves, but chaos takes over. Slowly, the boys descend into savagery. Jack and his hunters lose their sense of right and wrong and eventually murder Simon using their bare hands and teeth.
In historic times to current history, people make bad decisions for various reasons or no reasons at all. When left to their own devices, people can take a turn for the worst very quickly. I believe that humans are bad because they dictate one another and enslave people. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies shows that humans are bad through the action of dictatorship. In the novel, the character that is a dictator is Jack.
