Imagine being hunted down by people you once trusted, trying to kill you under the influence of an unknown innate evil these killers discovered. Visualize being trapped on an island with bloodthirsty murderers driven by their desperate desire to survive, and will do anything and everything to live on and leave in one piece. In lord of the Flies, author William Golding provides the audience with symbolism to highlight conflicts throughout the journey of the characters to express how survival impacts innocence. To illustrate, the boys begin their journey of survival but conflicts erupt when the leaders Ralph and Jack clash, “‘You remember the meeting? How everyone was going to work hard until shelters were finished?’ ‘Except me and my hunters-’
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He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach. Piggy sat down with a grunt. Jack stood over him his voice was vicious with humiliation. ‘You would, would you? Fatty!’ Ralph made a step forward and Jack smacked Piggy’s head… Piggy cried out in terror” (Golding 71). This statement proves how jack maliciously oppresses Piggy, not to mention how Piggy being belittled is causing not only him to lose innocence, but Jack is continuously losing his innocence due to his dictator-esque ways. Additionally, Piggy is letting Jack oppress him, but Piggy doesn’t have the confidence to stand up for what he’s confident about. Beyond that, when Roger purposefully murders Piggy, his childhood innocence is forever changed, “The great rock… struck Piggy a glaring blow… his head opened and stuff came out and turned red”(Golding 180-181). Roger is exemplifying the epitome of the loss of childhood innocence due to how he just killed Piggy in cold blood, and because of how Roger meant with all his might to commit a murder, this proves how even children can have ‘the darkness of a man’s heart’. Additionally the way Piggy was killed was unfathomably one of the goriest scenes in Lord of the Flies, that also explains how the instinct of survival was so incredibly strong that Roger broke past
He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach. Piggy sat down with a grunt. Jack stood over him his voice was vicious with humiliation. ‘You would, would you? Fatty!’ Ralph made a step forward and Jack smacked Piggy’s head… Piggy cried out in terror” (Golding 71). This statement proves how jack maliciously oppresses Piggy, not to mention how Piggy being belittled is causing not only him to lose innocence, but Jack is continuously losing his innocence due to his dictator-esque ways. Additionally, Piggy is letting Jack oppress him, but Piggy doesn’t have the confidence to stand up for what he’s confident about. Beyond that, when Roger purposefully murders Piggy, his childhood innocence is forever changed, “The great rock… struck Piggy a glaring blow… his head opened and stuff came out and turned red”(Golding 180-181). Roger is exemplifying the epitome of the loss of childhood innocence due to how he just killed Piggy in cold blood, and because of how Roger meant with all his might to commit a murder, this proves how even children can have ‘the darkness of a man’s heart’. Additionally the way Piggy was killed was unfathomably one of the goriest scenes in Lord of the Flies, that also explains how the instinct of survival was so incredibly strong that Roger broke past