Ultraviolence
Children are often seen as innocent little cherubs, especially when they are young. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the boys all start off innocent with pure intentions of getting off the island, but as time progresses they lose what they have left of their humanity and became savages. They start to not care what happens to each other and only look out for themselves. By not caring they start to do cruel things to each other and the pigs around the island causing them to lose their innocence. The boys lose their innocence because they hunt and kill pigs, they leave “gifts” for the Beast, and they hunt Ralph.
With each pig they kill, Jack and his hunters come closer and closer to losing their innocence completely. At first, it is hard for Jack, or any of them, to hunt and kill a pig. Jack is the first one to get close to killing a pig, but he hesitates causing the pig to get away. Feeling he had something to prove about his masculinity he “slammed his knife into a …show more content…
The thing they give the Beast is the head of a pig they torture in the process of killing. When they are killing the pig they cause it the most pain they can. Roger runs around the pig “prodding with his spear whenever pig flesh appeared” (135). Wanting to kill something for survival and wanting to make it suffer for fun are two different things, and just “prodding” a pig with a spear will not do much other than hurt it. Eventually, “Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight” (135). This makes the pig to squeal out in agony because he causes the pig the maximum amount of discomfort. Finally, “Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands” which he rubs all over the boys’ faces (135). This event is the final strand of any hope the boys have of ever being blissfully innocent
Children are often seen as innocent little cherubs, especially when they are young. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the boys all start off innocent with pure intentions of getting off the island, but as time progresses they lose what they have left of their humanity and became savages. They start to not care what happens to each other and only look out for themselves. By not caring they start to do cruel things to each other and the pigs around the island causing them to lose their innocence. The boys lose their innocence because they hunt and kill pigs, they leave “gifts” for the Beast, and they hunt Ralph.
With each pig they kill, Jack and his hunters come closer and closer to losing their innocence completely. At first, it is hard for Jack, or any of them, to hunt and kill a pig. Jack is the first one to get close to killing a pig, but he hesitates causing the pig to get away. Feeling he had something to prove about his masculinity he “slammed his knife into a …show more content…
The thing they give the Beast is the head of a pig they torture in the process of killing. When they are killing the pig they cause it the most pain they can. Roger runs around the pig “prodding with his spear whenever pig flesh appeared” (135). Wanting to kill something for survival and wanting to make it suffer for fun are two different things, and just “prodding” a pig with a spear will not do much other than hurt it. Eventually, “Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight” (135). This makes the pig to squeal out in agony because he causes the pig the maximum amount of discomfort. Finally, “Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands” which he rubs all over the boys’ faces (135). This event is the final strand of any hope the boys have of ever being blissfully innocent