Lord of the Flies a novel by Nobel Prize winning author William Golding was published in 1954. The story is about a group of British boys who survive a plane crash that leaves them stranded on an island in the Pacific with no adults After ralph and Piggy come upon a conch shell and Ralph blows into it to call any other survivors the boys assemble and vote Ralph to be their chief causing Jack to become unhappy. As a result, he declares that he and his choir boys will serve as the hunters of the group while everyone else builds shelters and take on menial tasks. Ralph tries to implement rules in order to maintain structure on the island but few of the others follow them, as he only has Simon and Piggy on his side who try to get the boys to listen
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Ralph frustrations begin to intensify and it reaches its peak when a ship passes and Ralph sees that none of the boys have done their part to keep the fire going and they lose their chance of being saved. Since this event everything after begins to crumble and all the rules that Ralph implemented begin to be ignored and the structure begins to fall apart which then leaves the boys to act like savages. The main character Ralph is described as a classic hero, which is defined as “ [a] man of distinguished courage and ability admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.” According to Joseph Campbell he is a fine example of a classic hero. Ralph, according to Joseph Campbell, is a fine example of a classical hero.
In the opening of Lord of the Flies the setting starts off on the island that the boys are stranded in. So the first stage of Ralph 's journey where Bronzite explains it to be “ where the Hero exists before his present story begins, oblivious of the adventures to come” (1) does not apply. William Golding does this because he wants the reader to focus on the mystery of what is going to happen to the survivors. If the author would have began the book with the backstory of the boys it would have not captivated the
Ralph frustrations begin to intensify and it reaches its peak when a ship passes and Ralph sees that none of the boys have done their part to keep the fire going and they lose their chance of being saved. Since this event everything after begins to crumble and all the rules that Ralph implemented begin to be ignored and the structure begins to fall apart which then leaves the boys to act like savages. The main character Ralph is described as a classic hero, which is defined as “ [a] man of distinguished courage and ability admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.” According to Joseph Campbell he is a fine example of a classic hero. Ralph, according to Joseph Campbell, is a fine example of a classical hero.
In the opening of Lord of the Flies the setting starts off on the island that the boys are stranded in. So the first stage of Ralph 's journey where Bronzite explains it to be “ where the Hero exists before his present story begins, oblivious of the adventures to come” (1) does not apply. William Golding does this because he wants the reader to focus on the mystery of what is going to happen to the survivors. If the author would have began the book with the backstory of the boys it would have not captivated the