Lord Of The Flies: Civilization Vs Savagery

Lord of the Flies is often thought about a book that is about civilization versus savagery. Every human being has a good and bad side and the book shows that. In the story, some of the civil kids are Ralph and Piggy. The Savage kids were Jack and Roger. Ralph and Piggy are civil and cared for each other in their tribe and Jack’s while Jack only cared about his own and attacks Ralph’s tribe. Piggy, Ralph, and Jack are a few of the kids that were symbols of civilization versus savagery. In the end, civilization wins even though all the kids that survived got back home the civil kids still have a sense of humanity and the savage kids are going to be uncontrollable. Piggy dies in the story for being civil. He was trying to stop the fight between Jack and Ralph. “Piggy held up the conch and the booing sagged a little, then came up again to strength. I got the conch!” Said Piggy to get to get Jack to become civil again but, Roger pushes a boulder down …show more content…
“Began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” Jack took the become one with the pray saying too literally and became animal like. "I painted my face—I stole up. Now you eat—all of you—and I” Jack shows leadership here but not the type of leadership the tribe needed. Jack had the strength but not the brains to be a leader. All he thinks about is gaining power. The wanting of power led to Jack making his own tribe that is savage like. Lord of the Flies is often looked about as civilization versus savagery and this is how civilization wins over savagery. Like in today’s world there are people like Obama who is civil and then there are people like Kim Jong Un who are savages who only care about themselves and want power. Even parents versus children would be like civilization versus savagery. The parents are teaching the kids to be civil, but the kids would want to have more power than just freedom of speech and they want to be