The Lord Of The Flies Conflict Analysis

In The Lord of The Flies, Sam and Eric deal with conflict by sticking together. There are many conflicts in the book, but the twins always stick together through their actions, speech, effects on others, and stage of moral development. So when is this represented in the book? The author, William Golding, shows how Samneric deal with conflict in The Lord of The Flies when the twins let the fire go out, they join the hunters, and when they help Ralph confront Jack’s tribe. Sam and Eric’s actions show how they deal with conflict by sticking together through their actions. At first, Sam and Eric’s job on the island is to keep the fire lit. But Jack and the hunters try to influence Sam and Eric to help them hunt, abandoning the fire. The twins

Jack’s tribe separate from Ralph’s group, which is one of the main conflicts in the book. The twins joined Ralph’s group who tried to get Piggy’s glasses back from jack. When Ralph’s group is thinking of how to confront Jack’s tribe, the twins have an idea. Sam says first, “He’ll be painted, said Sam, timidly. “You know how he’ll be-” (pg.171), later Eric says, “But they’ll be painted! You know how it is. The others nodded. They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.” (pg 172). Both Sam and Eric’s remarks show how the twins stick together in the midst of conflict because they agree on how to solve the conflict. Sam and Eric try to end the conflict together as one unit which also gives more importance to their words. The other members of Ralph’s group also understood the statement because they had experienced the same as the

The twins do what others tell them to because they think there will be consequences if they don’t. As a result, the twins are very obedient. This also means that Sam and Eric are at the center of a lot of conflict because they do what they are told. If they do something that someone else does not like, for example when Ralph is upset that they let the fire out, it will be sure to cause strife. “Ralph spoke. You let the fire go out… We can light the fire again. You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time. The twins got knocked over-.” Sam and Eric caused a conflict between Ralph and Jack because of their obedience. Since they do not want to disappoint Jack when he asked them to help, it caused unrest between the two. This was ultimately caused by the lack of moral development of Sam and Eric because they couldn’t deny Jack’s order for fear of consequences. If the twins were on a higher level of moral development, they would have realized that the actual consequences came from their obedience, not from their lack of it.

In The Lord of The Flies, Sam and Eric deal with conflict by sticking together. Throughout the conflicts in the book, the twins always stick together through their actions, speech, and stage of moral development. This was done when the twins carried the pig after hunting, suggested that they should paint themselves when confronting Jack’s tribe, and when they let the fire go out and helped