Savages In Lord Of The Flies

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Lost, stranded, and parentless, young boys in Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies struggle to grasp reality while establishing leadership in order to survive. Most ten year old boys cannot make themselves dinner, let alone survive with no parents in an uncharted territory. Throughout the novel, the boys on this island hunt for methods to survive harsh conditions alone. Boys begin a form of leadership with the conch shell, spears are used to hunt and kill, and minds even speculate the thought of a beast on this island. Although the efforts of these boys were strong, because of the lack of authority, savagery swallowed the island. In lord of the Flies, Golding uses characterization to illustrate that the absence of authority

Every boy on the island, especially Piggy, goes on a search for nourishment. Throughout the novel, Piggy constantly mentions his auntie and how she always nourishes him and guides him. This is noticed especially in chapter one, Piggy complains about his asthma and the inability he has to perform certain responsibilities. He is noticeably the weaker length which causes him to be more vulnerable and striving to find nourishment. His attachment to the conch displays the longing he had for government and for things to be familiar to himself. Because “Man clings to the objects belonging to the [external] world and obtains happiness from a relationship to them” (Freud), Piggy and other boys search for something sentimental to hold close. Likewise, Simon also pushes to feel nurtured and be in a safe place. As an example, Simon would crawl into his little hiding place and gaze at the butterflies with a feeling of protection. This is his way of feeling nourished. Simon was capable of leaving the craziness and savagery behind in order to feel safe. Unfortunately, Jack and the hunters turned Simon’s happy and peaceful place full of butterflies to a place of dark and satanic atmosphere full of offensive flies. The savagery exposed between the boys masks the need for nourishment that they truly desire. After the countless years of suffering, “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the

From the start of the book the islanders begin to lose slivers of morality and became savages. Loss of innocence is when unnecessary measures are made, and normal boys appear to become greater savages. For instance, the creation of the Lord of the Flies makes it appear as Bacchanalias or, the devil, and the islanders make sacrifices and fear it. When one of the hunters yells, “Right up her ass!” (121) they prove the point of them not only just killing the pig for food, but they also want to torture the pig for their amusement. Because all the hunters feel the satisfaction of killing, they want to kill more, including the beast. This leads into the savagery and brutality of the murder of Simon, the Christ-like figure. When the tribe states, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”(136) they are lost in their different mindset. Innocence is gone, everyone on the island are no longer pure boys, and they are murderers and dirty savages. Rodger displays a significant sign of psychotic behavior and savagery when he threw little stones at a boy in the water, but he made sure he would not actually hit them. It was in his morals because he was still innocent. However, as the novel progressed Roger’s psychotic state began to uncover more. His innocence was gone and now he is a savage. Roger this time launched a giant rock at piggy which knocked him off of the cliff to his death and demolished