In the Lord of the Flies, Jack is immoral for his poor choices making him a dangerous threat to the other survivors. Before the hunters are about to leave for the hunt, they decide to make masks. Jack creates his mask and puts it on. According to Golding, “[Jack] looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger. He spilt the water and leapt to his feet, laughing excitedly” (63).
The oldest found mask is from 7000 BC, and experts believe it was used for rituals and ceremonies. Masks have an important cultural context in history, and as the use of masks has progressed, humans have adopted masks into other forms of entertainment and festivities. In present times, with better understanding of human psychology, society has come to understand that people wear emotional “masks” as well. Masks have a somewhat important context in both Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”. Both works describe masks as a way to hide one’s true self from everyone; Dunbar, however, depicts masks as an emotional barrier to cover up one’s true emotions or feelings, while Golding uses masks as a physical object to hide behind.
Oscar Wilde once wrote: “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth,”. I think this quote is trying to say that when you give someone a mask, they will tell you anything more openly. This will happen because no one knows who is truly hiding behind the mask. Also, what you say will not be judged as harshly by the people you know since they don’t have any thoughts about you before hand since it is anonymous.
1) Analytically speaking, Connell has split the story into two sections. The first half is composed of a hefty amount of foreshadowing and the second section that is composed of mainly, action. This makes for a great ride of suspense because the dual elements culminate providing a suspense filled experience. Quite early on, we are brought into Connell’s foreshadowing methodology. On the first page Whitney alludes events that suggest the foreshadowing of an ominous turn of events.
The Hidden Layers Once you peel back the foundations within each of us built by the civilizations we are raised in, what do you have? With the progression of mankind we have forgotten that in the roots of things we too are humans who hunt and are hunted. In the novel "The Lord Of Flies" written by William Golding we see the truth of what we are without the written restrictions we place on ourselves or on others. In the book we see a group of boys twelve and younger who just survived a plane crash now alone without any adults or guidance. The book revolves around the actions of Ralph the boys elected leader, Jack the controlling aggressive choir boy, and Piggy the smartest of the group yet least respected.
In Lord of the Flies, William Golding tells the story of a group of once-innocent schoolboys who flee their homes during a world war. However, the plane they traveled in crashed on a deserted island far from any civilization on the way to safety. Trapped with no adults or authority figures, the boys have to survive on their own with little or no guidance. As the boys stay on the island and try to find outside help, their humanity shifts into savagery. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, he shares his belief that without the structure of society, humans are savage by a conch shell symbolizing structure and humanity on the island, as well as using juxtaposition to contrast those who represent humanity and savagery.
In “Lord Of The Flies” by William Golding, there are boys who are stranded on an island. These boys that are separated from society are shown to wear “masks”. I have created a mask that is like the character, Ralph, in “Lord Of The Flies”. It shows both my usual personality but also shows my real one. Most people wear masks and don't even know it.
The Lord of the flies by James Golding uses a mask to show the tribe's descent into savagery. This mask possesses symbolic meaning which is significant to the Jacks character arc, chapter 4 where the mask first appears shows the instantaneous change in Jack's morals and character. Jack's bloodthirsty snarling displays zoomorphic characteristics in his behavior His animalistic characteristics such as his tribal-like dancing show that he wasn't the same jack in the mask. Furthermore proven by him in the next sentence in which he looks at himself like an “ awesome stranger”. This proves that Jack has let go of what morals held him back from being a barbaric tyrant with no guilt, shame or remorse.
The mood in Chapter IV is certainly one of the more ‘conflicted’ in terms of the atmosphere - certainly between Ralph and Jack, in light of their previously (proven to be false) ‘unbreakable’ bond and affection towards each other. This is proven so by a mention of Ralph’s “envious and resentful” gaze as the pig-hunt was being celebrated. Golding could, perhaps, be using this event to foreshadow a future severing of Ralph and Jack - given the juxtaposition of their priorities; Jack’s being entertainment & food based, and Ralph’s being of a rescue. Of course, the use of the words “envious” and “resentful” connote a devolved relationship between subjects - and in this context, Ralph and Jack, even foreshadowing a feasible phenomenon which is the
Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding is an enthralling narrative in which is articulated immensely around conflict and its many destructive consequences. The manner, in which Golding amalgamates aspects of character and mankind’s innate evil, has extensively augmented my level of understanding in relation to the nature of conflict and its severe consequences. Through the use of juxtaposition, dialogue and also symbolism, Golding has led me to foresee that conflict is the symptom of mankind’s failures and also innate evil. Within Lord of the Flies, juxtaposition is unambiguously a prominent element within, which is coherently used to develop conflict between both Jack and Ralph, thus indicating two distinctive tribes.
Native Americans paint their face as a ritual right before a battle. And Mexican wrestlers wear masks to hide their identity. All the different uses and symbols for masks can be impossible to name, but in Lord of the Flies a fictional novel By William Golding, the children paint their face to mask their identity, emotion, and growth on power and savagery. A mask whether it faces paint, an actual mask, or even makeup can hide many things.
Masks usually symbolize secrecy or pretenses. However, in Lord of the Flies, it both reveals and conceals the nature of the characters, particularly Jack. The mask provides a favorable edge to Jack’s role as a hunter but at the same time, his hold on civilization is weakening. The mask conceals Jack’s past identity as ‘Jack the Choir Boy’ and assumes the identity of ‘Jack the Hunter’.
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of children are stranded on an island without any adult supervision. Ralph uses a conch shell that a boy named Piggy found in order to gather the children together. A freckled boy named Jack, who is the leader of a choir, arrives tardy with his group of singers dressed in black cloaks following him. At this first meeting, they decide to elect Ralph as their leader instead of Jack. Ralph appeases Jack by allowing him to be in charge of the hunters and by sanctioning him to have the responsibility of keeping the signal fire alive.
There are several cultures with rich history involving ceremonies with masks; meanwhile, masks have gained a negative connotation after years of popular culture’s misuse. In horror movies and dystopian novels, the usage of masks to symbolize mob mentality is common. This holds true even in Lord of The Flies, where Golding uses physical masks, i.e. camouflage, to express the children’s innate savagery and submission, whereas
Golding says “The boys broke into shrill, exciting cheering” (41) in the beginning of the novel, then at the end of the novel says, “A great clamor rose among the savages” (164). William Golding who wrote The Lord of the Flies changes his word choice from “boys” to “savages” to emphasize the fact that the boys change into savage creatures. Three symbols represent civilization and change into chaos over the course of the novel. The three symbols representing change are Piggy’s glasses, The fire, and the conch. These figures demonstrate the important theme that the calm civilization will soon break out into disorder.
