William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

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Lord of the flies the conflict of humankind.

A group of boys find themselves stranded in a beautiful but isolated environment. For a brief period things go well, However, human nature starts to assert itself, and their mini-society descends swiftly into antagonism, hostility and violence. (Tabakoff). Even though people act one way they’re still violent on the inside. Golding is trying to show what happens on the island it's happening all the time. In the novel, “Lord of the Flies”, written by William Golding, the conflicts man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs society; Portrays the external conflict which illustrates multiple sides of human nature.
The boys in the story show what man vs man is. Man vs. man is when mankind fights itself against other individuals within an society. “there aren't
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nature is when a man is fighting with external conflict. The man is trying the overcome the struggles with nature.
Man vs. nature is when man is fighting against a force of nature. “There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast…. Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!... 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 the way they are?” The boys attempt to fight against the beast, but in the end the “beast” wins because it is a force of nature. Man may feel immortal, but in the end nature prevails. Golding is illustrating that nature is eternal compared to man. Goldings conflict of man vs. society is a representation of the boys disobey the rules. For example the boys broke the conch shell and that is why they are fighting the rules“We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us.” Therefore, the conch shell was a symbol of leadership In spite of the boys being savages, the conch shell was the boys hope for survival but they destroyed it. The boys would have continued to fight and kill each other if the rules had not been

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