How does William Golding Present the Descent from civilisation to Savagery in ‘Lord of the Flies’?
The book ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding is a novel which explores the descent from civilisation to savagery in a group of young British boys who are stuck on an island during a war. The main cause of the descent to savagery is the fact that two of the strongest characters on the island are in conflict. This affects everyone on the island, as one of the boys is the leader, and the other boy wants to be the leader. What differentiates the two boys from each other is that Ralph, the boy who is the leader is more focused on having rules and getting off the island, whereas Jack, the boy who dislikes Ralph and his power, is more concerned about …show more content…
This “beastie” that the other older boys deem a figment of the "littleun"’s imagination, later gains much more power and is even referenced to as “the Lord of the Flies” and is respected a lot more, especially by Jack who decided to break off and make his own “tribe”, splitting up the original group, of which Ralph used to be leader. The savages inside the boys are being uncovered more and more, as they begin to believe in the “beast”. Their belief in the thing that turned out to just be a dead pilot drove them to such a high point of savagery that they even killed two of the boys who were once part of the group. One of them, Simon, was killed by them mistaking him for the myth that had so much control over their behaviour, they didn’t even stop to ask questions, or check if he actually was a beast. This may be a as a result of the savagery inside each and every one of them, but it was also the fact that they were all scared of not what the beast was, but the image of the beast that they had conjured up in their
The book ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding is a novel which explores the descent from civilisation to savagery in a group of young British boys who are stuck on an island during a war. The main cause of the descent to savagery is the fact that two of the strongest characters on the island are in conflict. This affects everyone on the island, as one of the boys is the leader, and the other boy wants to be the leader. What differentiates the two boys from each other is that Ralph, the boy who is the leader is more focused on having rules and getting off the island, whereas Jack, the boy who dislikes Ralph and his power, is more concerned about …show more content…
This “beastie” that the other older boys deem a figment of the "littleun"’s imagination, later gains much more power and is even referenced to as “the Lord of the Flies” and is respected a lot more, especially by Jack who decided to break off and make his own “tribe”, splitting up the original group, of which Ralph used to be leader. The savages inside the boys are being uncovered more and more, as they begin to believe in the “beast”. Their belief in the thing that turned out to just be a dead pilot drove them to such a high point of savagery that they even killed two of the boys who were once part of the group. One of them, Simon, was killed by them mistaking him for the myth that had so much control over their behaviour, they didn’t even stop to ask questions, or check if he actually was a beast. This may be a as a result of the savagery inside each and every one of them, but it was also the fact that they were all scared of not what the beast was, but the image of the beast that they had conjured up in their