Lord Of The Flies Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding, portrays a group of English schoolboys ages 6-12, who get in a plane crash and end up on an island with no adult supervision. The boys must now find a way to overcome obstacles to survive and govern themselves. A tragic flaw in human nature is that we are all burdened with a hidden beast within. This becomes relevant in the book when we see the effect the hidden beast has on the boys through violence, corruption, and ultimately the loss of innocence. The internal beasts consumes the boys though many instances of violence. One example is when the boys kill Simon for learning the truth about what the beast really is. Golding writes on page 143 “fancy thinking the beast was something you hunt and kill said the head, you knew didn’t
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In the beginning of the book the boys try to keep the rules they have set at the first assembly, but we quickly find out that the drive for survival is greater than the rules for order. One example of lost innocence can be found on page 68 which states “his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.” This quote is trying to tell us that the once childish laughter the boy had, has now turned into wolf like snarl. We also see an example of this at the end of the book on page 248 which says “...in the middle of them with filthy bodies, matted hair, and unwiped noses, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called Piggy.” Moments before Ralph was weeping Jack and his tribe were overtaken by their inner beast, which caused them to set the forest on fire in a pursuit to kill Ralph. Ralph was crying like a child but he was no longer one of the children. He wasn’t only crying for his own loss of innocence but he lost the idea that anyone was innocent. He realized that at some point everyone would succumb their own inner
In the beginning of the book the boys try to keep the rules they have set at the first assembly, but we quickly find out that the drive for survival is greater than the rules for order. One example of lost innocence can be found on page 68 which states “his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.” This quote is trying to tell us that the once childish laughter the boy had, has now turned into wolf like snarl. We also see an example of this at the end of the book on page 248 which says “...in the middle of them with filthy bodies, matted hair, and unwiped noses, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called Piggy.” Moments before Ralph was weeping Jack and his tribe were overtaken by their inner beast, which caused them to set the forest on fire in a pursuit to kill Ralph. Ralph was crying like a child but he was no longer one of the children. He wasn’t only crying for his own loss of innocence but he lost the idea that anyone was innocent. He realized that at some point everyone would succumb their own inner