In the novel Lord of The Flies Golding creates a parallel between the island and the boys’ in which the boys’ descent into savagery is directly affected by the island. The island is proven to not be beautiful oasis originally thought in the novel and it begins to impact the boys’ behavior negatively. After the boys realize the island is not as wonderful as it originally seemed they begin revert to primal societal instincts rather than the societal norms of the new world.
As the novel progresses, the boys progressively become more like beasts and less like humans (Babb 1). The boys begin to re-enact the initial hunt that they killed a boar on, during this re-enactment the boys vigorously beat another child almost to the point of death.
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The island the boys are stranded on appears as a paradise at the beginning of the novel, but as the boys’ proceed through their descent into savagery the island itself becomes more of a nightmare (Sova 1). In the beginning of the novel Golding puts the emphasis on the beautiful beaches and the palm trees that are on the island, but as the novel progresses Golding begins to put the emphasis on gloomier aspects of the islands such as the rocky cliffs that Simon falls off of while running away from the boy (Kruger 2). Later in the novel the boys use the island to murder Piggy by pushing a boulder down the mountain and hitting Piggy with the boulder. This act shows how the boys not only have descended into evil but now view the island as a way to pursue evil rather than the purity originally established (Sova 1). Near the end of the novel a group of the boys begin to hunt Ralph, the only reason the boys do not kill Ralph is because as they are going to murder him they are rescued. The only thing that could stop the boys’ savagery is the reminder that they came from a world where this kind of behavior is not socially accepted and that reminder had to come from an