The novel, The Lord of the Flies, show’s the darker side of human nature and of its dominance over people’s behaviour, causing the boys on the island to resort to their evil roots to survive. Throughout the story, William Golding illustrated that evil will mostly triumph over good. Although there was a major attempt of establishing a democracy of peace and morality, their system of order quickly falls apart into anarchy and sadistic violence. Ultimately, the boys are drawn to wickedness, committing acts of savagery and losing any sense of sanity on the way. The characters become self-interested and get corrupted by evil, blindly following each other and condoning their wrong doings along the way. They definitely doom their society to fail.
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The cruelty in them takes away their innate goodness and their sense of right and wrong, leaving them to not think twice about doing irrational thinking and unpleasant nonsense. After the hunting stage with mock pig act of killing, Jack lightheartedly says that next time they should, ‘Use a littlun.’ Jack’s suggestion show’s no sort of sympathy and fairness for other people’s feeling in the world. Also, everyone acted like it was a good game and each of them laughed like a ‘... a bloodthirsty snarling.’ All of their careless reactions reveals a fair bit of foreshadowing of the sadistic acts soon to be committed by the boys. ‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.’ The humans had an attraction towards barbarism and chaos and were simply not in control any more. The sacrificed pig’s head in the book, is a clear symbol of, The Lord of the Flies, which represents the pure evil inside - grasping for high power to create monsters out of the human race. ‘I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island!’ The imaginary beast here, inside Simon’s head, threatens the innocent boy to stay away from his ultimate agenda. It clearly succeeds in its mission, causing anarchy and all to turn on one another. The end of the novel signals the end of insanity for the boys, but they finally come to the …show more content…
First of all, the Christ like figure, Simon, is puzzled by the theory of the human presence of the beast and even finds out the truth after his supposedly faces evil in his mind. ‘Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.’ Unfortunately he’s too late in warning the others and is brutally stabbed to death, showing evil’s fury. Hope was slowly collapsing because even the only teenager with a pure heart was not strong enough in shattering the development of darkness. Next, Piggy is a easy target because of his imperfections and is generally laughed at when taking charge. ‘Which is better- to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?’ Although, he’s the most intelligent character in the novel that comes up with logical reasoning for the tribe. the rational thinker is hit by a boulder, relished by the diabolical Rodger. This shows that good has no chance when evil has manipulated people’s minds and drawn them to animalism. For most of the novel, another adolescent that is among the good people in the group, Ralph (representing democracy and order), desperately puts effort into maintaining structure but gets pushed away by corrupt forces. If it were not for the naval army rescuing them, him and many more would have been murdered. ‘ (Ralph) was vexed to find how little he thought like a grown up and sighed again. The island was getting worse
The cruelty in them takes away their innate goodness and their sense of right and wrong, leaving them to not think twice about doing irrational thinking and unpleasant nonsense. After the hunting stage with mock pig act of killing, Jack lightheartedly says that next time they should, ‘Use a littlun.’ Jack’s suggestion show’s no sort of sympathy and fairness for other people’s feeling in the world. Also, everyone acted like it was a good game and each of them laughed like a ‘... a bloodthirsty snarling.’ All of their careless reactions reveals a fair bit of foreshadowing of the sadistic acts soon to be committed by the boys. ‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.’ The humans had an attraction towards barbarism and chaos and were simply not in control any more. The sacrificed pig’s head in the book, is a clear symbol of, The Lord of the Flies, which represents the pure evil inside - grasping for high power to create monsters out of the human race. ‘I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island!’ The imaginary beast here, inside Simon’s head, threatens the innocent boy to stay away from his ultimate agenda. It clearly succeeds in its mission, causing anarchy and all to turn on one another. The end of the novel signals the end of insanity for the boys, but they finally come to the …show more content…
First of all, the Christ like figure, Simon, is puzzled by the theory of the human presence of the beast and even finds out the truth after his supposedly faces evil in his mind. ‘Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.’ Unfortunately he’s too late in warning the others and is brutally stabbed to death, showing evil’s fury. Hope was slowly collapsing because even the only teenager with a pure heart was not strong enough in shattering the development of darkness. Next, Piggy is a easy target because of his imperfections and is generally laughed at when taking charge. ‘Which is better- to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?’ Although, he’s the most intelligent character in the novel that comes up with logical reasoning for the tribe. the rational thinker is hit by a boulder, relished by the diabolical Rodger. This shows that good has no chance when evil has manipulated people’s minds and drawn them to animalism. For most of the novel, another adolescent that is among the good people in the group, Ralph (representing democracy and order), desperately puts effort into maintaining structure but gets pushed away by corrupt forces. If it were not for the naval army rescuing them, him and many more would have been murdered. ‘ (Ralph) was vexed to find how little he thought like a grown up and sighed again. The island was getting worse