William Golding's Lord Of The Flies: Savagery

Name Tahliah Lopez Miss. Munoz English II Date 5/29/24 Title Humans Know right from wrong, yet they still display their capacity for savagery. William Golding says all people have it in them, when society falls some will fall from common sense and both knowing of right from wrong that a society holds well others into savagery because it’s within all of us. He shows us his idea within the fictional story Lord of the Flies, which is about a group of boys who crash on an island without any rules or society of any kind, and they try to govern themselves. There are especially conflicts between Jack and Ralph, which escalate the novel by displaying the constant divide between humanity’s opposing sides, knowing right from wrong and a desire for savagery.

Everybody knows right from wrong, Golding says, but the desire for savagery within them can become more as they leave society’s ways behind. In The Lord of the Flies, it shows how

In the fictional novel Lord of the Flies by Golding, Golding stated, “Yet Ralph’s throat refused to pass. He resented as an addition to Jack’s misbehavior, this verbal trick” (Golding, pg. 72). The aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid afores This quote shows how Ralph has lost control and his desire has overpowered him, this made Ralph mad because he knew Jack knew what he was doing was wrong yet still did it. Still, it was a part of his human nature. Another quote that shows their rivalry is at the very beginning of the novel The Lord of the Flies by Golding “I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things.”(Golding pg.). This shows how at the beginning of the novel they all choose or agree with Ralph because they stuck to society. So this is where the views