Ladies of the Flies William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a classic book about a group of young English boys who crash land on a deserted island with no adults to guide them. They develop a small civilization in which the boys have jobs and rules under the leadership of Ralph. Ralph’s antithesis, Jack, establishes his own tribe of hunters which reverts to savagery and steadily increases in size as promises of meat and fun begin to lure in men of Ralph’s tribe. For the duration of their stay on the island, there is rumored existence of a “Beast” living on the island as well, preying on the young boys. Jack’s tribe leaves sacrifices from their hunts in hopes that they will appease the Beast, ensuring their safety. The boys mistakenly kill one
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Would the presence of the fairer sex make a difference? In the beginning, the girls may be given specific jobs to help aid the boys in survival, but even with all the propriety of being young ladies, they too could very well fall into the savagery Jack and his tribe succumb to. It is often assumed that girls are proper, and strive to have and maintain order, but when put into a situation such as this, they are every bit capable of evil similar to the boys’. Prior to his death, Simon states that “The Beast” is what is within the boys; a statement equally applicable to girls, should they have ended up on the island as …show more content…
Though having females on the island may have delayed the division of the castaways, it may also have resulted in some horrific outcomes. Once Jack and his hunters departed, they could very well coerce some of the girls into coming with them with the same promises of meat and “fun”. The boys may begin to take advantage of the girls, making them do the dirty work around the camp site as well as degrading them. As his group declined into more savage ways with their sacrificial rituals of pigs for “The Beast,” they may even include harming or raping the young girls they had brought with them. The girls remaining with Ralph would likely be the ones tending to the younglings and would maintain the camp while the boys would be scavenging to provide for the group. Of the two, Ralph’s tribe is more civilized and attempts to uphold their standards, the boys more apt to care for and protect the girls rather than belittle and demean them. They would see the value of having female assistance with the new
Would the presence of the fairer sex make a difference? In the beginning, the girls may be given specific jobs to help aid the boys in survival, but even with all the propriety of being young ladies, they too could very well fall into the savagery Jack and his tribe succumb to. It is often assumed that girls are proper, and strive to have and maintain order, but when put into a situation such as this, they are every bit capable of evil similar to the boys’. Prior to his death, Simon states that “The Beast” is what is within the boys; a statement equally applicable to girls, should they have ended up on the island as …show more content…
Though having females on the island may have delayed the division of the castaways, it may also have resulted in some horrific outcomes. Once Jack and his hunters departed, they could very well coerce some of the girls into coming with them with the same promises of meat and “fun”. The boys may begin to take advantage of the girls, making them do the dirty work around the camp site as well as degrading them. As his group declined into more savage ways with their sacrificial rituals of pigs for “The Beast,” they may even include harming or raping the young girls they had brought with them. The girls remaining with Ralph would likely be the ones tending to the younglings and would maintain the camp while the boys would be scavenging to provide for the group. Of the two, Ralph’s tribe is more civilized and attempts to uphold their standards, the boys more apt to care for and protect the girls rather than belittle and demean them. They would see the value of having female assistance with the new