Violence In Lord Of The Flies Analysis

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The Blossoming of Violence “Savagery is the process of separation,” (Jose Gasset). This statement clearly represents William Golding’s novel Lord of The Flies. In Golding’s thrilling novel a plane full of English schoolboys crashes on an island with no inhabitants. However no adults from the plane on the island either. Without the help of their superiors, the boys are forced into the responsibility of caring for themselves and to live with their fellow crash victims. The natural, violent, human instincts rooted in these boys begin to take sprout and their little society goes to ruins. With every passing moment on the uninhabited island the boys take a turn to their more violent instincts and lose their sense of civility. In the beginning one’s civility is not less all at once, but instead over the passing of time. In the beginning of their new found life the boys establish that they will need food, particularly meat. They assign the choir to be hunters. However when their lead hunter spots a boar things do not end well. “‘I was choosing a place,’ said Jack,” I was just waiting a moment to decide where to stab him,’”(Golding 33). Jack explains as the others question his actions of letting the boar run free. After being on the island for a couple of months the boys become increasingly more …show more content…

Ralph is brutally beaten by a group of savages after the killing of Piggy. He hides in a thicket close to Jack’s camp. He recognizes two of his own fellow members. They desperately usher him to leave and quickly. Ralph is confused, but not long after Samneric explain,” They’re going to hunt you tomorrow,” (Golding 188). Ralph clearly has angered Jack and he did so by being persistent on the maintenance of the signal fire. As well as calling the hunters pathetic. Ralph seems to be Jack’s only weakness, so the clear answer is to get rid of him. When power is threatened to be seized by another, they are to be undoubtedly