People are bad they do so many bad things. They steal and kill other people so that they get what they want. I believe that humans are bad because they kill and steal. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies shows that humans are bad through killing one another. In the Lord of the Flies Simon is calling out to everyone saying that the beast is not real.
“I’m frightened. Of us.” That quote (p.140) was spoken by the main protagonist, Ralph, in Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding after Ralph’s friend, Simon, was killed by the “animalistic” actions of the other boys. Golding explores a whole new world of fiction in his unique twist and style of writing. The novel, can really make us ponder on what really the young boys were thinking and therefore acting upon during their unexpected “vacation” to a deserted island.
A conch is used to call the boys to meetings. Another boy, Jack, leads a separate group of boys that are hunters and overthrows Ralph. The society begins to crumble with Jack as the leader and the boys start fighting,
It’s hard to imagine what we would do if we were stranded on an island. Thankfully we don’t need to worry about being in that position. I don’t know the feeling that the boys in Lord of the Flies had but it’s interesting to think about their different reactions to being in a totally new environment trying to survive on their own. The human tendency to divide into groups and compete between each other caused chaos and death on the island in Lord of the Flies.
Throughout the novel, as the young boys developed into their characters, hints of evil began to appear in otherwise kind younguns. Despite this pessimistic change in mentality, each male character demonstrated a harmony between the evil and good sides of a human being-the ability to hurt someone and the contrasted ability to act in kindness towards someone. This balance is portrayed in Golding's novel, as characters exhibited instances of kindness shown through their actions, speech, and thoughts, and in opposition, instances in which their actions, speech, and thoughts had injured someone. In this manner, Ralph demonstrates that good and evil exist side-by-side in every human being. Through his actions, speech, and thoughts, Ralph demonstrated that he had the attribute of kindness.
Ralph, the voice of reason. Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, the main characters of the book Lord of the Flies. Each character represents a type of person in today’s world, but these three represent the types of leaders we have in our world. Ralph, being the main focus of the paper, represents the leaders in today’s world who want what is best for everyone. This doesn’t always mean that people will be up for what the leaders tell them they need to do.
Another place where one can see that man is inherently born evil is through the interpretation of Simon’s personality. After Simon witnesses the killing of the sow and how brutally Jack and the Hunters hung its head, he begins to confront reality and the thoughts that haunt mans evil mind. He realizes what the beast truly is, that being, our own selves. The beast is within all of us as human beings. Jack’s tribe, including Ralph and piggy participated in killing Simon during their feast, when Simon ran out of the forest to inform the boys of the dead soldier on the island.
Ralph is first introduced as the fair boy who is a natural born leader. He applies Piggy’s intelligence to think of a way to summon the other survivors on the island. Ralph follows through with Piggy’s idea and uses the conch which emits a loud sound that can be hear through the island. The sound eventually lures the group of boys towards them. His leader instincts are best portrayed when he’s able to side with Jack after offering to share his power: “The suffusion drained away from Jack’s face.
As humans, we all have evil inside of us. We can choose to express our evil and let it grow stronger or we can maintain composure. The evil inside of us can’t always be maintained. Being isolated, being influenced by others, and human nature sometimes makes it not possible to maintain composure and hold our evil within. The author of the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding, shows readers how the little evil inside of people can be expressed in violent, savagery ways.
William Goulding’s fictional novel, Lord of the Flies, starts off as a plane crashes into a tropical island completely isolated from civilization. As the plot progresses, the author demonstrates how the lack of rules and order for an extended period of time, brings out the flaws and strengths in humans depicted by the use of the characters. All humans have certain blemishes that make their personality unique in relation to others. Goulding brings out these faults in his characters, some of which develop into a political allegory. Throughout the characters we see political roles such as the resemblance of a president, dictator, advisor and peacemaker.
In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the setting plays an important role in the exposition of the novel. A group of boys are stranded on an uninhabited tropical island, the island contains a large jungle with a vast amount of food and water. The island weather is humid, but it tends to get cooler at night. The environment is unknown to the boys and they have to fight with the island to survive until they get rescued. Golding choose a perfect setting to help illustrate how a group of boys may or may not thrive without adult supervision.
Human’s may think that they have the freedom to do whatever they wish and determine their own life, but in reality, society is controlled and micro-managed to follow laws and behave in a certain manner in order to avoid disturbances within communities. When total free will is given, humans start to display their wicked inner state of minds. This is clearly shown within the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding through the use of various characters like Ralph and Jack. The boys in the novel are initially innocent and pure, but since they are alone on the island for a long period of time without adult supervision and higher authority, they gradually lose their morals and begin to do what is necessary to survive. Through the events that occur in the novel, it is evident that the children lose their purity, further leading them to become savages that commit horrific crimes.
Everyone is taught from birth that you need money and power to be successful in this world. Except, power can make people do unjustifiable things to others or to themselves. Does this mean everyone is inherently evil? In the book Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys get stranded on an island and try to make a society in order to survive. This society though, slowly spirals into disorder and eventually chaos.
Lord of the Flies, written by the Nobel laureate William Golding, is a frightening and influential work of fiction. The macabre maestro Stephen King wrote in his introduction to the book, “Flies always represented what novels are for…not just entertainment, but life and death… The writer’s imagination becomes the reader’s reality.” First published in 1954, Flies is an allegory of man’s descent from cultured, rational thinking to primitive, bloodthirsty savagery. The story took place at the dawn of an atomic war.
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