Imagine the unbelievable, you and your classmates that you never knew till this day, are stuck on an island together, fighting to keep things in order, when everything is falling apart! No matter who we are, deep down inside we all hold a savage part of ourselves, which eventually comes out when we are put in extreme situations. It proves that once savagery has a hold, there is nothing stopping it from overruling civilization. Throughout the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the motif of savagery versus civilization in order to demonstrate how dramatic situations can change a person’s personality.
Lord of the Flies is a book that talks about a group of boys stuck on an island due to a plane crash, caused by current outburst of World War II. When the book first starts of the boys are primarily focused on developing a …show more content…
Eventually, the boys can no longer stand being a group that they separate into 2 individual tribes, the savages and the civilization. For instance, at one point in the story Piggy starts to question if the boys are starting to evolve into savagery,“Which is better to be a pack of painted Indians or be sensible like Ralph” (180). At this point the boys are starting to split apart. Both boys Ralph and Jack are starting to develop their own tribes. Before long, Jack himself starts to change for the worse, into an invincible bloody killing beast, which no longer can differentiate from hunting a pig to a human. To illustrate that the boys hatred for one another has grown since they arrived on the island, when Ralph tries to go back to talk to Jack, Samneric warn him of the horrible truth, “They hate you Ralph. They’re going to do you’re they’re going to hunt you tomorrow” (188). The tensions between him and Ralph seem to have risen into a dreadful fight. To make situations worse, even the last bit of civilization left on the island is falling
Lord of the Flies is a book that talks about a group of boys stuck on an island due to a plane crash, caused by current outburst of World War II. When the book first starts of the boys are primarily focused on developing a …show more content…
Eventually, the boys can no longer stand being a group that they separate into 2 individual tribes, the savages and the civilization. For instance, at one point in the story Piggy starts to question if the boys are starting to evolve into savagery,“Which is better to be a pack of painted Indians or be sensible like Ralph” (180). At this point the boys are starting to split apart. Both boys Ralph and Jack are starting to develop their own tribes. Before long, Jack himself starts to change for the worse, into an invincible bloody killing beast, which no longer can differentiate from hunting a pig to a human. To illustrate that the boys hatred for one another has grown since they arrived on the island, when Ralph tries to go back to talk to Jack, Samneric warn him of the horrible truth, “They hate you Ralph. They’re going to do you’re they’re going to hunt you tomorrow” (188). The tensions between him and Ralph seem to have risen into a dreadful fight. To make situations worse, even the last bit of civilization left on the island is falling