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Savagery In Lord Of The Flies Essay

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The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel in which the themes of savagery and civilisation is expressed. The boys arrived on the island with no clear realization of being stranded but rather a free island from parently figures. They made gradual steps in conducting a working society such as casting a leader, held meetings through a conch that they found and assigned roles and tasks. During these early days of their new environment was their most civilized days as well. The boys’ progression of savages came through the unnecessary desire to hunt for meat. Jack men the boys that he gives them what they need on the island, protection from the beast and fun. This caused rivalry and spite between the hunters and Ralph tribe where we see the most savage point of the whole novel where some boys want to kill Piggy and Ralph. In the end is when Jack fully realized his crazy savage ways and was left in shock and embarrassment. The boys were destined to fail as a …show more content…

Instead of boys caring of what happened and rally up everyone they play around and swim because there is no parent supervision. The boys were conditioned by society and did not have the the perks and attributes of survival at such a young age. In the beginning Jack was not able to kill the pig because he could not bear hurting a living animal, we do see a shift in his mentality later on but this was the boys state when arriving. The wise boys that had a clue on what to do in this situation were outnumbered and ignored by the island which was a grand mistake for the boys. An important symbol that represented their youth and inexperience was the beast. The boys were afraid of a made-up creature that caused the boys to have bad work habits and ultimately siding with Jack for protection.You could not blame the boys for their reasoning because they do not know better because of their young

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