Behavioural Changes in Golding’s Lord of the Flies
In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, the theme of human nature is recurring and pertinent. Golding was raised to believe that human nature can improve with a better education, in Lord of the Flies it’s almost as if it is the opposite. The longer the boys stay on the island the worse their natural habits become and therefore their instincts become more evil as they start to believe there is a beast. They believe the beast can shapeshift into anything causing them to go crazy and killing what they might believe is the beast. As Simon says around the middle of the novel, “Maybe we are the beast” (96). It’s ironic because around the time there instincts start to get out of hand, …show more content…
Jack uses this asset to his advantage, the mask acts as a shield to hide his emotions and true feelings, this is part of the reason he turns savage because he didn’t do any of the heinous acts, the mask did. I think Jack wasn’t sure if he wanted to be rescued but when his hands got a new grasp on his found power he didn’t want to be rescued anymore and that’s the what didn’t change about Jack, he always wanted power and when he finally got it, he used it to his advantage, which changed him. Throughout the novel Jack is basically morphing into a creature or animal and is not himself anymore. The mask changes …show more content…
It revolves around how Jack creates his tribe using Hitler’s three rules. Ralph gets sucked in by Jack’s tribe, when they are having the first feast of Jack’s tribe and Simon comes running down the hill, he is identified as the beast and when everyone starts chanting and they got sucked into the moment and didn’t even know what was happening. Ralph, Piggy and samneric all pretend they weren’t involved in Simon’s death yet Ralph knows they were and has guilt of what they did. Ralph almost went into beast mode, but he caught himself and didn’t let himself turn. I think throughout the book Ralph stayed the same for the most
In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, the theme of human nature is recurring and pertinent. Golding was raised to believe that human nature can improve with a better education, in Lord of the Flies it’s almost as if it is the opposite. The longer the boys stay on the island the worse their natural habits become and therefore their instincts become more evil as they start to believe there is a beast. They believe the beast can shapeshift into anything causing them to go crazy and killing what they might believe is the beast. As Simon says around the middle of the novel, “Maybe we are the beast” (96). It’s ironic because around the time there instincts start to get out of hand, …show more content…
Jack uses this asset to his advantage, the mask acts as a shield to hide his emotions and true feelings, this is part of the reason he turns savage because he didn’t do any of the heinous acts, the mask did. I think Jack wasn’t sure if he wanted to be rescued but when his hands got a new grasp on his found power he didn’t want to be rescued anymore and that’s the what didn’t change about Jack, he always wanted power and when he finally got it, he used it to his advantage, which changed him. Throughout the novel Jack is basically morphing into a creature or animal and is not himself anymore. The mask changes …show more content…
It revolves around how Jack creates his tribe using Hitler’s three rules. Ralph gets sucked in by Jack’s tribe, when they are having the first feast of Jack’s tribe and Simon comes running down the hill, he is identified as the beast and when everyone starts chanting and they got sucked into the moment and didn’t even know what was happening. Ralph, Piggy and samneric all pretend they weren’t involved in Simon’s death yet Ralph knows they were and has guilt of what they did. Ralph almost went into beast mode, but he caught himself and didn’t let himself turn. I think throughout the book Ralph stayed the same for the most