Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

Both the island the boys crashed on and in the rest of the world people are living in a war-like environment. The entire world was about to be at war; similarly to how the jack and Ralph were at war on the island. The children on the island were at war with one another. For the boys age they were more violent than one would expect. Within the island there was physical as well as emotional warfare between certain characters. Ralph and Jack were constantly bickering about what to do and how to proceed; most often between the options of hunting and building a fire. Jack also had an emotional conflict with piggy. He was excluding him and bullying him. An excellent example would be when he called piggy “Fatty” (Golding 21). The island was in ruins after the children’s mini war just as the world was in ruins after the coming war. …show more content…
Towards the end of the book all the boys except Ralph became savages and killers with no regard for rules and regulations. That will certainly affect how they re-integrate into society and how they will mature into adults. This in combination with the savagery in the war would make these particular boys quite belligerent and aggressive. Ralph and a few others hypothesized that the war had already started and that London was nuked by the A-Bomb (pg.) if you include the boy’s experience on the island to the effects of world war two the amount of inexplicable aggressive behavior exposed to the children is considerably high. The effects of what happened to them during their childhood will emotionally scar them for the rest of their