William Golding’s Lord of the Flies shows how isolation causes a backwards development in society. The boys’ societal structure starts off with promise, but by the end of the novel, it is based on violence, and is completely dysfunctional. There are three major reasons for this downwards spiral with the first one being the rejection of Piggy. With a nickname like Piggy, it is evident that he is not the most popular figure among the boys. However, Piggy is intelligent, has rational thoughts, and wants to work together with others to solve problems. The boys ignore him, and as their society begins to crumble, the boys reject Piggy more, revealing how Piggy’s rejection falls in line with the backwards development of society in the novel. The second
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Ralph and Jack begin to blame one another for small occurrences, but it eventually elevates. At first, they keep their hatred to themselves as “Ralph heard the mockery and hated Jack. The sting of ashes in his eyes, tiredness, fear, enraged him” (Golding 109). In this instance, the physical effects of being on an isolated island are affecting Ralph, along with the daily mockery Jack and Ralph exchange. The imagery in this example is used to “bring out the mood and the intensity of emotion of the characters” (Wilson). The physical discomfort along with the fear of his environment contributes to a stirring hatred that Ralph possesses. Ralph bottles up his emotions towards Jack, but he eventually releases them aggressively. It leads to a malicious fight between Ralph and Jack where “Jack made a rush and stabbed Ralph’s chest with his spear” (Golding 161), and the two of them being “chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring” (Golding 161). Both of them become savages, all due to the want for power, and the isolated setting of the island. They fight and resort to violence in order to solve their problems, just like animals, showing how their society has completely turned upside down. The fight ends with Ralph falling into the depths of the woods, causing an emergence of a new leader. Like Ralph, Roger feeds on violence to fire up the …show more content…
If Piggy was listened to, there was no power struggle for Jack, and the conch stayed in control, the boys’ society would’ve developed and been successful. Instead, the boys reject and kill Piggy, they resort to violent leaders like Ralph and Roger, and they destroy the conch and obey the devil-like pig head. The transformation into these figures of society is the reason why their society fails and resembles a reverse-development that doesn’t develop at all. It only gets worse, as the boys become savages due to the isolation they are exposed to. “Isolation causes time both to freeze and to accelerate” (Claasen), meaning that time doesn’t exist in an isolated environment. Isolation leads to the disappearance of what makes society function, and for the boys, the pillars holding up their society collapse, and they become savages without structure. William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies illustrates how society reverses its development in an isolated environment, causing society to
Ralph and Jack begin to blame one another for small occurrences, but it eventually elevates. At first, they keep their hatred to themselves as “Ralph heard the mockery and hated Jack. The sting of ashes in his eyes, tiredness, fear, enraged him” (Golding 109). In this instance, the physical effects of being on an isolated island are affecting Ralph, along with the daily mockery Jack and Ralph exchange. The imagery in this example is used to “bring out the mood and the intensity of emotion of the characters” (Wilson). The physical discomfort along with the fear of his environment contributes to a stirring hatred that Ralph possesses. Ralph bottles up his emotions towards Jack, but he eventually releases them aggressively. It leads to a malicious fight between Ralph and Jack where “Jack made a rush and stabbed Ralph’s chest with his spear” (Golding 161), and the two of them being “chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring” (Golding 161). Both of them become savages, all due to the want for power, and the isolated setting of the island. They fight and resort to violence in order to solve their problems, just like animals, showing how their society has completely turned upside down. The fight ends with Ralph falling into the depths of the woods, causing an emergence of a new leader. Like Ralph, Roger feeds on violence to fire up the …show more content…
If Piggy was listened to, there was no power struggle for Jack, and the conch stayed in control, the boys’ society would’ve developed and been successful. Instead, the boys reject and kill Piggy, they resort to violent leaders like Ralph and Roger, and they destroy the conch and obey the devil-like pig head. The transformation into these figures of society is the reason why their society fails and resembles a reverse-development that doesn’t develop at all. It only gets worse, as the boys become savages due to the isolation they are exposed to. “Isolation causes time both to freeze and to accelerate” (Claasen), meaning that time doesn’t exist in an isolated environment. Isolation leads to the disappearance of what makes society function, and for the boys, the pillars holding up their society collapse, and they become savages without structure. William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies illustrates how society reverses its development in an isolated environment, causing society to