Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Having no rules with no supervisors could sound like the best thing in the world. With too much freedom could lead to many various disasters. Jack, Ralph, Roger, Piggy and the rest of the kids experience the same exact situation in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A group of children escaping their home in a plane from the terror of a world war. Unfortunately, the war had shot the plane right from the sky and crashing into a boat shaped island. Having no grownups with them, they were free to do whatever they wish. Soon enough, they progressively started to forget humanity and started to become savages. As a result, it led to deaths and disasters that shook the island. From civilized to savagery, having no laws or rules will eventually corrupt the individual.
Corrupting an individual can completely change someone into a new person.
Complete murder is a whole new level of corruption and evil. Roger, the complete devil on the island, had no regret and hesitation to pull the lever which controlled the rock that killed Piggy, the intelligence of the group on the island, and caused him to fall …show more content…
Admittedly, this could be possible to happen for the individual that stayed in touch with humanity and civilization for the majority of the time. However, the individual could still be driven out of humanity and civilization no matter how hard they try. By just the deaths of a family member or a friend. Corruption will always find a way to get to the individual, meaning they have to protect themselves. Similar to children, “If parents are absent, if fathers do not provide strength and mothers do not provide love, then children will plumb the depths of their nature” (Golding, “Why”). Thus, even though children are under laws and rules, having no one to look after them could lead them to a corrupted mind. To have rules and morals or not, corruption and savagery will invariably find a