The nature of man according to Hobbes in chapter 13 of Leviathan is that men always desire power and will never be satisfied with the amount of power that they have, because of this men will always try to gain more power. This power hungry mindset causes men to be in a constant state of competition and war. Men will continue to fight for power. Without rules and a common leader men will become so power hungry that they will destroy themselves and others. William Golding fulfills Hobbes ideas about man with Lord of the Flies in the moments when, Jack and Ralph are fighting for power, when Simon dies and when Piggy dies.
Jack and Ralph’s constant struggle for power and for the position of chief show how Golding satisfies Hobbes’ ideas about …show more content…
After Simon tries to tell the boys that the Beast isn’t real and that it is all in their heads. The boys circle around Simon and kill him. Golding writes, “The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill… The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed” (219). At this point in the book the boys are slowly losing sense of themselves. They are getting crazier and more vicious. They start caring less and less about getting rescued and are getting more obsessed with the beast. This is important because it shows how the boys have evolved throughout the book. The death of Simon happens near the end of Lord of the Flies, and in the beginning Jack was scared to even kill a pig. At this point in the book the boys didn’t care that they were killing Simon because he was trying to stop their obsession with the beast. This shows how the boys have lost control and are going crazy because of a power …show more content…
Ralph, Piggy, Sam and Eric try to go and reason with Jack’s tribe. However Jack’s tribe does not listen and Ralph and Jack get into a fight. Roger pushes a rock down the path and it hits Piggy pushing him off the cliff and killing him. Golding writes, “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red” (260). This shows how Piggy died and that Roger knowingly killed him. While everyone else was distracted and focused on their own problems rather than the problems of the group. This caused another life to be taken. This is similar to Simon's death. It is also interesting that the conch was destroyed when Piggy was killed. The conch seemed to be the only thing that held their society together. Piggy’s death is important because it show a complete loss of civilization. Piggy the most reasonable and civilized person died as well as the conch which represented their civilization. At this time in the book all of the boys other than Ralph, Sam and Eric have become wild and
Jack and Ralph’s constant struggle for power and for the position of chief show how Golding satisfies Hobbes’ ideas about …show more content…
After Simon tries to tell the boys that the Beast isn’t real and that it is all in their heads. The boys circle around Simon and kill him. Golding writes, “The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill… The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed” (219). At this point in the book the boys are slowly losing sense of themselves. They are getting crazier and more vicious. They start caring less and less about getting rescued and are getting more obsessed with the beast. This is important because it shows how the boys have evolved throughout the book. The death of Simon happens near the end of Lord of the Flies, and in the beginning Jack was scared to even kill a pig. At this point in the book the boys didn’t care that they were killing Simon because he was trying to stop their obsession with the beast. This shows how the boys have lost control and are going crazy because of a power …show more content…
Ralph, Piggy, Sam and Eric try to go and reason with Jack’s tribe. However Jack’s tribe does not listen and Ralph and Jack get into a fight. Roger pushes a rock down the path and it hits Piggy pushing him off the cliff and killing him. Golding writes, “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red” (260). This shows how Piggy died and that Roger knowingly killed him. While everyone else was distracted and focused on their own problems rather than the problems of the group. This caused another life to be taken. This is similar to Simon's death. It is also interesting that the conch was destroyed when Piggy was killed. The conch seemed to be the only thing that held their society together. Piggy’s death is important because it show a complete loss of civilization. Piggy the most reasonable and civilized person died as well as the conch which represented their civilization. At this time in the book all of the boys other than Ralph, Sam and Eric have become wild and