Lord Of The Flies Civilization Vs Savagery

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the children on the island go through a traumatic experience that no child should ever have to go through. After the children have been stranded on an island, eventually a Naval Officer comes to the island to save the stranded children. What the naval officer didn’t know was just what conflicts or events had occurred during the time they were on the island. The first thing the naval officer had seen when he got to the island was a ruffled up boy who was running in panic away from a group of boys who had face paint on and were carrying spears. By understanding how Jack transformed throughout the book, one can see that savagery took over the children like a plague as Jack was spreading it from person to person; furthermore it shows us that the main conflict of civilization versus savagery is one of the main questions that remains unanswered. …show more content…
Jack in the beginning was content with Ralph taking charge but never really loved the idea of it; however as time went on, his views darkened. Jack’s view of getting saved disappeared completely after he realized that is wasn’t about getting saved, it was about making sure that he was in control and that he could always be the one to provide the kids with anything and everything that he made them think that they needed. He didn’t want to get saved, he cared more about survival than anything and he even went back to his primal, animal-like instincts. Even by the end of the story this conflict still showed itself by the end of the