Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a story about a group of schoolboys caught in the middle of a nuclear war, who crash onto a deserted island with no adults to guide them. As months pass on the island, the boys begin to lose hope and begin to regress into savagery because there is no longer the structure in their lives they once previously had. The boys have a conch in the beginning of the book that symbolizes civilization and order, but one boy who is more savage than the rest, decides he no longer wants rules, only savagery.
Throughout the book of Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows the importance of the beloved conch and how it lost its great and mighty power. In this book, a group of schoolboys crash onto an island and have
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In the beginning of this book, a group of schoolboys who are fleeing from a war in a plane, crash into a deserted island and band together to make rules, although all of them have different priorities. One character's priority is hunting, this can be seen when Jack is hunting pigs in the forest, “Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped”(48). By using the term “dog-like”, Golding shows that Jack is acting very primitive while hunting and how he is regressing into savagery. Another example of savagery can be seen after Jack has put on face paint to go hunting, “He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.”(64). The term, “bloodthirsty snarling”, shows how Jack has changed from when he first landed on the island, he is now acting very primitive and savage-like. In another instance, Piggy yells at Jack for letting the fire burn out while a boat road by, “You and your blood Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home.”(70). This accurately shows how some people on the island feel about Jack, they feel he is too obsessed with hunting things and not more focused on getting rescued from the island. All of these quotes from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies directly relates to the theme that without the rules and structure of