Savagery In Lord Of The Flies Essay

In man's heart, does empathy, kindness, growth, or a bloodthirsty savagery emerge when they find themselves stranded on an island without authority or order, ultimately becoming the authority over the bloodthirsty savagery of boys, whilst still just boys themselves. In the Lord of the Flies, a book by William G. Golding, he writes of the savagery, civilization, and the evil shown when human nature is stripped down to its core. The inherent evil of mankind without the pressure of social conformity manifests itself in Lord of the Flies by the representation of the Beast, the descent into savagery, and the act of hunting. The inherent evil of mankind, without the pressure of social conformity, manifests itself in the Lord of the Flies through the

In this assembly, the talk of The Beast begins. Simon, a boy on the island that is shy and secretive, said, “Maybe there is a beast. maybe it is only us.” It shows that Simon knew that there was nothing on this island, it was deserted and they were the only ones there. However, no one believed him. The only “Beast” on the island was the one that is them, their evil spirit. Their manifestation of The Beast was what they were scared of the most. People are the Beast. In the assembly, just before that, Piggy starts talking about how fear isn’t something that should take hold of you. He explains that there is no Beast and the little boys are just scared of nothing. Then he retracts his statement but it is shrugged and laughed off, “.. ‘I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either,’ Piggy paused. Unless Ralph moved restlessly. ‘Unless what?’ ‘Unless we get frightened of people.’ A sound, half-laugh, half-jeer, rose among the seated boys.” The boys all see that the only thing to be scared of is themselves but in the first part of the book it is shrugged off and laughed