Carson Foard AP Literature 1982 In literature, no act of violence exists for no reason. There is almost always a reason for some form of violence to take place. These acts of violence can be extremely important for the turnout of any novel. Particularly in The Lord of Flies, there are many acts of violence that have deeper meaning than what we may see. In The Lord of the Flies, these kids are stranded on a remote island in the middle of a war. These boys have to fight to survive, including fighting themselves and each other. Throughout the story you can see that there is always turmoil between Ralph and Jack. As soon as Ralph becomes chief and Jack doesn’t. Jack holds a grudge against Ralph and continually goes against the way Ralph is doing …show more content…
One day after a big dispute between Ralph and Jack, Jack decides that he is leaving and is going to make his own tribe where he will be chief. This is a major turning point because this is where things start to get violent very quickly. Jack's new tribe is more worried about hunting and Jack being in charge: whereas, Ralph is more worried about getting off the island. One day after Jack had killed a pig, everyone was dancing and singing. Then Simon comes out of the jungle and they start to attack him and they beat him to death. They try to justify that it was dark, and that he could've been the monster. This shows us what the island is doing and that they are beginning to act more and more like savages. They move on rather quickly after the murder of SImon and the violence gets worse. Jack's tribe attacks Ralph and the others in order to get Piggy's glasses to make a fire. So little acts of violence are now turning into much bigger acts of violence. As things become more and more tense Ralph, Piggy , and others travel to Jack's base. Jack and Ralph fight for a while and then Roger completely murders Piggy and they kidnap Sam and …show more content…
Then it progresses into things like stealing from each other, having small fights, and being very violent with their hunting. Finally, as they start to completely become crazy and act like complete animals they commit the murders of Simon and Piggy. These scenes all contribute to showing the theme of this work. These acts of violence show that being stranded like this has a toll on you. These kids thought that they were prepared and would be able to survive and act sain, but they find out that it is going to be much harder than they think. These actions become greater and greater, and build up to show their mob mentality and