Usually in television/cartoons when a character is having an issue, they have the devil version of them propped on one shoulder and the angel version on the other. In Lord of the Flies, this same concept is seen. In Lord of the Flies, a group of boys become stranded on an island with no adults. The issue of a leader comes up and there seems to always be a constant battle between two characters by the names of Jack and Ralph for the role of chief. All throughout the book, the boys seem to disagree over how things should run and what is the most important thing to take care of on the island. In Lord of Flies, Golding uses a political allegory to convey there is a constant battle between good and evil present in civilization.
Fear in civilization causes there to be constant battles between …show more content…
“I’ve got the conch. Ralph thinks you’re cowards, running away from the boar and the beast. And that’s not that’s not it at all” (126). In this quote, Jack (the evil) is trying to use the boys’ fear and turn them against Ralph (the good) by making them believe that Ralph thinks they’re weak. The fear element is being used by evil to try and bring the boys away from good continuing the ongoing battle between good and evil. Ignorance, lack of knowing, can often lead people to form different ideas about what they think is the right thing to do leading to a division based on morality, or good/evil. Many of the children believe there is a beast hidden somewhere in the mountain and that it can be hunted and killed. Since most of the children who believe there is a beast in the mountain are young, they haven’t grown to learn that there is no such thing as a beast or that something evil can live inside themselves. Due to their ignorance, many of the children believe there is a beast on the island and “evil” used this ignorance which soon leads to fear, to
Fear in civilization causes there to be constant battles between …show more content…
“I’ve got the conch. Ralph thinks you’re cowards, running away from the boar and the beast. And that’s not that’s not it at all” (126). In this quote, Jack (the evil) is trying to use the boys’ fear and turn them against Ralph (the good) by making them believe that Ralph thinks they’re weak. The fear element is being used by evil to try and bring the boys away from good continuing the ongoing battle between good and evil. Ignorance, lack of knowing, can often lead people to form different ideas about what they think is the right thing to do leading to a division based on morality, or good/evil. Many of the children believe there is a beast hidden somewhere in the mountain and that it can be hunted and killed. Since most of the children who believe there is a beast in the mountain are young, they haven’t grown to learn that there is no such thing as a beast or that something evil can live inside themselves. Due to their ignorance, many of the children believe there is a beast on the island and “evil” used this ignorance which soon leads to fear, to