Savagery In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

“The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery” (Steven James). Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about a group of boys who go down the path of savagery when the boys kill one of their own. It starts with a group of boys who crash-landed on an island. The boys started to create a society, but then it all falls apart and the boys become savages. Man needs civilization because people will turn into savages. This is shown when the rules the boys created fell apart, the boys don’t want to be saved anymore, and when the boys hunt down ralph throughout the island.
The boys start to become savages when the rules the boys created fall apart. The boys decided on things like having water in the coconut shells, but there wasn’t any more water, and the shells dried up (Golding 79). The more time spent on the island the more the boys just wanted to play and the boys stopped caring about the rules the boys created at the beginning. If the

The boys start to turn into savages and care more about playing and killing the pigs than keeping the fire going. The boys created a fire with Piggy’s glasses so that if a boat passes by it can see the smoke. “Look at us! How many are we? And yet we can’t keep a fire going to make smoke. Don’t you understand? Can’t you see we ought to…die before we let the fire out?” (Golding 81). This shows Ralph realizes the rest of the boys no longer want to keep up the fire, showing the boys no longer care about going home and becoming more like savages. Jack walks off with Piggy’s broken glasses in his left hand (Golding 168). Piggy’s glasses were the only way the boys could create a fire. Since Jack and the other boys that followed Jack took Piggy’s glasses, Ralph and the people that followed Ralph couldn’t make another fire. This means that the boys have turned into savages because the boys don’t care about making a