Theme Of Brutality In Lord Of The Flies

Does man naturally have brutality within them ? William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, creates a theme out of this question in his novel. Lord of the Flies is a novel about boys ages 6-12 that have crash landed on an uninhabited island during war time. It was written to show how Goulding believes boys would act is put into a similar situation without adults present. Some of the boys who were part of the crash land are Ralph the leader, Piggy the intellectual one, and Jack and Roger the hunters. The theme that Golding uses is all individuals have a natural capacity for brutality, meaning all people have evil within. Goulding establishes this theme with the increment of violence, torture and fear and the consequence of the fear.
Goulding reinforces his theme with the rise of violence and torture in the story. This story begins with boys that had just crashed landed on a island, but some of the boys quickly begin to darken. Jack became …show more content…
Fear is a valuable part of the story from start to finish. Fear caused Jack to leave the group: " I am not going to play any longer. Not with you" (127). The terror that the beastie created, caused Jack to create his savage like group. This lead to even more terror and uncontrolled violence latter on . A storm, alike to the one on the first day, built a wave of panic over the boys leading to the death of Simon. Ralph and Piggy talk about their participation in the murder trying to figure out why they did it :“ Don’t you understand, Piggy? the things we did-”(157). All the boys participated in the murder of Simon, even Ralph and Piggy. Ralph and Piggy know what they have done and try to accept it.Showing that even the most righteous boys have the capacity for violence. While Jack and his group say that it was the beatie in disguise. Nonetheless they knew it was Simon that they were killing, not the beastie, but that did not stop them from killing