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Lord of the Flies
William Golding's novel Lord of the Flied tells the story about what would happen if a plane full of young proper English school boys crash landed on an island without any adult supervision whatsoever. It is extremely important to the narrative that there are no adults on the island with the children. As adults, people are accustomed to the laws and moral rules of the society in which they live. They would be far more likely to keep up the rules of their society in this new location. Children only know legal and ethical issues because of the adults around them. They mimic the social structure instead of becoming a true part of it. When the boys land, Ralph the leader, and his companion, Piggy try to create a social order which falls quickly into disrepair. One of the reasons that people behave morally or ethically is because there are ramifications for their behavior. If they commit a crime, they are imprisoned. If they perform an action that is unethical, then the society judges them socially unacceptable. On the island, there are no punishments for not behaving in certain ways and so the rules...
Ralph represents the desire for order and for structure. Jack, on the other hand, represents the wild and animalistic desire inside every person, whether they wish to admit it or not, to commit acts of violence. This discrepancy leads directly to a falling out between the groups and a stratification of the children on the island. Either they can side with reason and Ralph or animal instinct with Jack. The story is set during the Second World War, a time when many members of the human race decided to turn the world into a graveyard. The boys on the island do in some ways reflect the international conflict, but in a larger sense, they actually represent any time in history when human beings forget their humanity.
One example of the descent of the characters is the fact that initially Ralph convinces the boys to gather drinking…
Works Cited:
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann, 1962. Print.
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Some parts of the book were quite interesting At The Beginning At the beginning of 'Lord of the Flies', a plane crashes into an isolated Pacific Ocean island. It was carrying some British boys aged 6-12. It is worth noting that the world is obviously at war when the plane crashed. The boys have no one to take care of them because there were no
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