A child experiences the ups and downs when growing up. The little people have fun and play while also being under the supervision of a parent or guardian. The adult is the guideline day by day that points out right from wrong, and how to act. Being in this world, they also have laws and rules of society that are needed to follow to have a good lifestyle. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel with the theme of savagery versus civilization. When a group of young British boys is stranded on a deserted island, they are forced to survive by themselves without the supervision of an adult. As time goes on being stranded on the island, some boys experience a breaking point of violence, that becomes of the individual and begin to act uncontrollably
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The conch shell, first brought everyone together associated by Ralph, the first to use it and voted the leader of the boys for the time being. The conch symbolizes authority on the island. No boy was described as ruthless and “savage” when they first crashed. Their main focus was to find food keep the fire burning and be rescued. However, an article William Golding wrote stated that “There are, for instance, conditions in which cruelty seems to flourish, which is different from saying that it has clear causes. What are these conditions? Chaos is one, fear is another,” (Golding, “Why”). As the conch represented authority on the island, it was stressed by Ralph plenty of times that the boys must follow the rules of the conch and keep the fire lit to be saved. But in this situation there was lots of stress they would not be rescued and fear of a monster watching them. During a feast held by the so called “savages”, the boys were dancing around the fire doing a chant, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Golding, Lord 152). They did this chant for the beast, they were determined to try to kill it because they were scared. At this time, Simon, a quiet boy came back from discovering that the “beast” they were scared of, was actually just a dead body. He came out of the trees yelling. The chanting boys became terrified and assumed he was the beast. Golding wrote, “At once the crowd surged …show more content…
However, Piggy does get involved in the dance ritual when Simon gets killed. He also admits this, even though he does not want to say it outloud when talking to Ralph. Simon, on a more elaborate note, experiences the evil inside of him and the others. He has a hallucination of the beast when it says, “‘Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!’ said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. ‘You knew didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?’” (Golding, Lord 143). The beast, which in Simon’s eyes is the pig head on a stick, is within. He sees the beast in his head taunting him. If Simon was not somehow inflicted with evil, even by the influence of others, he would not have the hallucination. The haunting of evil inside of the boys was taking over their thoughts and turnin them to the dark side. The evil Simon experienced talking to the beast could be stated as the good realization, but in the depths of their nature, everyone had evil deep
The conch shell, first brought everyone together associated by Ralph, the first to use it and voted the leader of the boys for the time being. The conch symbolizes authority on the island. No boy was described as ruthless and “savage” when they first crashed. Their main focus was to find food keep the fire burning and be rescued. However, an article William Golding wrote stated that “There are, for instance, conditions in which cruelty seems to flourish, which is different from saying that it has clear causes. What are these conditions? Chaos is one, fear is another,” (Golding, “Why”). As the conch represented authority on the island, it was stressed by Ralph plenty of times that the boys must follow the rules of the conch and keep the fire lit to be saved. But in this situation there was lots of stress they would not be rescued and fear of a monster watching them. During a feast held by the so called “savages”, the boys were dancing around the fire doing a chant, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Golding, Lord 152). They did this chant for the beast, they were determined to try to kill it because they were scared. At this time, Simon, a quiet boy came back from discovering that the “beast” they were scared of, was actually just a dead body. He came out of the trees yelling. The chanting boys became terrified and assumed he was the beast. Golding wrote, “At once the crowd surged …show more content…
However, Piggy does get involved in the dance ritual when Simon gets killed. He also admits this, even though he does not want to say it outloud when talking to Ralph. Simon, on a more elaborate note, experiences the evil inside of him and the others. He has a hallucination of the beast when it says, “‘Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!’ said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. ‘You knew didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?’” (Golding, Lord 143). The beast, which in Simon’s eyes is the pig head on a stick, is within. He sees the beast in his head taunting him. If Simon was not somehow inflicted with evil, even by the influence of others, he would not have the hallucination. The haunting of evil inside of the boys was taking over their thoughts and turnin them to the dark side. The evil Simon experienced talking to the beast could be stated as the good realization, but in the depths of their nature, everyone had evil deep