Similarities Between Lord Of The Flies And The Crucible

“Lord of The Flies” the novel by William Golding is a story about a group of kids that have crashed on a island that they must overcome the dangers of and survive to live and be rescued. John Proctor the protagonist in “The Crucible” in relation to the “Lord of the Flies” was a man who had many problems and major issues. John Proctor during “The Crucible” cheated on his wife Elizabeth with the saucy young housekeeper named Abigail committing the dirty deed of adultery committing a sin just like the Seven Deadly that are explained in the novel “Lord of Flies”. Another relation to the story is Thomas Hobbes theory he believed that the only true and correct form of government was the absolute monarchy. He argued this most forcefully in his most

Also the lack of a strong leader among the boys of Lord of the Flies leads them to make many savage and wrong going decisions, which compare the concepts of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. A quote from Goldings novel, The final scene of “Lord of the Flies” is a hunt of the main character Ralph who is getting chased by the savages once his trusting friends and little boys who were in the same “boat” as him. Now hunting him and trying to harm him until Ralph finds his way onto shore where he and the other boys run into the first adult in the book who is their way off the island. In the novel the mood suddenly changes “The ululation faltered and died away a semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach making no noise at all (200).” The juxtaposition between the scene and the previous is strong. Where the previous scene featured an intense chase with the savages and Ralph facing almost near death, this scene features all the boys frozen and awkward. Realizing that all the mistakes that they