Inhumanity In Lord Of The Flies

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding tells the story of man’s inhumanity to man. In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. The boys elect a leader, hoping for an ounce of leadership and maturity. At first the boys enjoy their freedom, roaming around the island, swimming, and having a good time. Everything works out until the fun gets out of hand. The boys get swept into the world of hunting and gruesome acts and begin to destroy the serenity and beauty of the island. They begin to not only kill and hurt the pigs, but the other children as well. The savage children have no respect for the plants, animals, and other living things on the …show more content…
The schoolboys do not return the kindness given to them by the island; instead, they destroy it. The young children have no respect for the beauty of the creation and are selfish and greedy for power and excitement. Boys will be boys, but these children are savages. They kill for entertainment and pleasure, not caring if anything or anyone is harmed in the process. When they hunt, they do not recognize that by killing the mother sow, they are killing off their food source. They also hunt more than necessary to survive, causing the brutality in them to grow and eventually reign over them. Towards the end of the novel the children feel the need to burn down the island to bring Ralph, the only sensible one left on the island, to his death. Nothing but the joy of having Ralph dead is in their minds, and they do not consider the consequences to their actions. By starting the fire they turn the beautiful greenery to ashes taking the physical beauty from the island. This is not the first fire they have created. When things were still in order the boys attempt to create smoke by starting a signal fire. The fire becomes uncontrollable and spreads through the jungle. Not all of the vines, trees, and other plants are burnt, but the island still is not the same. The boys leave a physical scar on the island, which by the end of the story is not …show more content…
They have no mother to comfort them, no father to scold them. They are all alone, they rely on the oldest of the group to lead them, to tell them what to do. When Jack creates his own tribe and separates from the original group he shows how he is isolating himself, just as the island is isolated. The majority of the children follow Jack’s ways, hoping for fun and something to keep their minds of the thoughts of home and family. They put tell themselves that there is no hope of rescue, that they will be the lone inhabitants of the remote island forever. They say the island is too small, that no one knows where they landed, they give up on ever returning home. The isolation from the reality and from the rest of the world also causes them to become savage. In Britain they were proper schoolboys who would not even think of murder, but once on the island the humanity in them is taken over by their brutality. They do not know what is happening in their homes so they create a world of their own. They create leaders, food gatherers, guards. The island traps them in their own reality, confined on the deserted