Lord Of The Flies Analysis

In “Lord of the Flies” (Golding, 1954), a theme repetitively exhibited throughout the novel is the concept of the boys no longer having the society they once knew. The author basing the novel on British youth, which makes the absence of a community and evolving savagery, have a stronger impact on the reader. When a boy in the group says, “This is an island. At least I think it’s an island. That’s a reef out in the sea. Perhaps there aren’t any grownups anywhere,” it exposes that the boys understand that they are considerably remote from their British Society.
Without community, grownups, a government, the boys inevitably collapsed into savagery, taking a simple task such as hunting and converting it into a heinous sexual assault. Ralph states, …show more content…
From the second they started their adventure, they thought themselves as a democracy; once too removed from civilization and community, Jack formulated their operation became a tyranny, with him as their leader. Using force and destruction, he attained their confidence and admiration, utilizing the beast as his scapegoat, when he declares, “If there is a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat-” he is beginning to contribute to this thought of Survival of the Fittest. Piggy is the most mature of anyone on the island; he should be the leader, but would not survive, he is logical and intelligent, he wouldn't attempt to charge the beast, knowing how diminutive they are. Once Piggy is slain by the boulder, the symbol of maturity and sophistication is dead and with it, goes the boy's morality and virtue. Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790) once stated that "The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally." Building the huts, organizing the rules and a leader, the conch, it was all an endeavor to form the civil society that Kant