Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

Great philosophers say that in order to discover a man’s true nature, one must give them power and see how they treat their subordinates, not their leaders or their equals. Without the societal programming imprinted in one’s mannerisms and morality, the characters of Lord of The Flies by William Goulding descend into anarchy and savagery by the victory of human desire for advancement and self-interest by all means. Promptly, the character Roger discovers his violent tendencies and the pleasure he achieves from this form of torture to others by taking advantage of the innocence and youth of the Littuns. As all the boys grew up in civilized England with all of society’s sense of right and wrong from their upbringings, the lack of parental and guardian presence leaves the boys with no established rules to follow. Roger …show more content…
Ever since he got the conch, Ralph oversees the council and assigning the task of hunting and building shelters respectively among the boys, even if his plan clearly has its flaws as the roles are seemingly unfit to a certain pool among them, as they are often bored and disinterested in the role assigned to them. As not all the boys are contributing to the tasks they believe as uninteresting or pointless due to the lack of excitement and thrill that comes with it, Jack takes the glory upon himself as he kills a pig for the first time and tears away the attention from Ralph’s unexciting flame and dull shelters to the adrenaline rush caused from the amusement of violence, bloodshed, and chaos. Just as important, alliances are formed with good intention to protect all those involved and collectively fight against a common enemy, but this does not work in Ralph’s favour, as his last trusted allies Samneric betray him to Jack in fear and cowardice for their own