Lord of the Flies

History has shown, that the right influence can make anyone do anything. Hitler was a powerful man, who was able to influence the citizens of a whole nation to turn against a single group. Before this movement, jews were a very large and successful group in Germany, and it’s just mind blowing to see all that success and acceptance, go down the drain by a single man and movement. The same happens in both Lord of the Flies, and Call of the Wild where group influence changed everyone. Stranded from civilisation, the boys in Lord of the Flies come to forming two “political parties”, where each group had their proper beliefs and steps to survival. The more popular Jacks group, focused heavily on hunting, while the less popular Ralph’s group, had a more balanced approach to survival. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” Is what Jack’s group chanted during a hunt. “You and your blood Jack Meridew! You and your hunting! We might’ve gone home-” shows that Ralph didn’t agree with Jack’s decisions. More people chose to follow Jack because he seemed powerful, and just had the ability to influence most of the boys to work under him, instead of working with Ralph by using powerful words and slogans. The same method of influence was used in Call of the Wild. Call of the Wild takes place during the gold rush era, where ads and word of mouth promised riches in the northern, frozen tundra. Hundreds of thousands of people flocked over there, in search of a lifetime’s worth of happiness.

“In the fall of 1897, when the Klondike Strike dragged men from all over the world into the frozen North”. This was a time before personal automobiles, so dogs were illegally bought and traded for transportation purposes. This, however, led to dogs being treated unethically, as they were beaten, malnourished, and overworked. This was considered, by the majority, the normal way to treat dogs, which means the group dynamic was able to influence how dogs were treated. However, unlike Lord of the Flies, this was on a bigger scale of a world population, rather than just a bunch of kids on an island. It’s a lot easier to influence a small group of people, hence why Jack’s strategy worked well into roping in more workers. He did this by saying powerful things, motivating them, and making himself look like the leader they need, but don’t deserve “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.

“In Call of the Wild, the news of the gold rush got to all areas of the world, and it influenced a lot of people to trek to the great white north. “In the fall of 1897, when the Klondike Strike dragged men from all over the world into the frozen North”. However, people were only told about the gold and riches at the end, but not the treacherous, and often disappointing journey that leads to it. This included: limited gold (most of it was already gone by the time a lot of people arrived), and the dangerous journey in there (high climbs and deadly climates). Few stopped to think “hmmm, this may be too good to be true”, most just got up and left, because seeing a lot of their coworkers and friends leave for this, motivated them to leave as well. The right words, the right motivation, and the right influence, can make anybody do anything. Looking back at history’s worst leaders, makes people wonder just how would someone elect someone like that? Those leaders all had one thing in common, they were very powerful, and motivational public speakers, who were able to convince the population that they were gonna make a real change. Jack was able to convince the island boys that he was gonna bring real change to their tropical live, that he was the right choice, the right leader. Whoever started the gold rush hype must’ve worded it really well to get the attention of many (then again, people will do a lot for gold). This really shows, just how important public speaking skills are.

Human nature is unavoidable. In his novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding is making a profound statement on human nature. He is expressing mankind s essential illnesses through the boys on the island. Golding establishes that the nature of human beings is truly destructive, evil and savage. Before the boys arrive on the island is a beautiful tropical paradise untouched by civilization. When the boys plane crashed a long scar (was) smashed into the jungle (p.1, Chapter 1) The island has been scared just like the cities that have been scared by atomic warfare. The harm to the island was caused by a man made object which shows that it is man who causes destruction. No matter where man goes he always brings destruction. The boulders that the boys push over also represent man s destructive nature and brute force. The boys have fun causing destruction to the island.

They even pretend the bolder is like a bomb (p.25, chapter 1). It is evident that man s feral nature exists even in their fun and games. Another example of man s destructiveness is too look at the condition of the island when the boys first arrive and when they leave. In the beginning the island is described as a heavenly place full of life. In the end the island was scorched up like dead wood (p.224, chapter 12) looking more like hell. The boys totally destroy their island with their war. When the officer comes to rescue them he is not really saving them from anything. He will just be taking them back to where an even bigger war going on.

Man can never truly be rescued because no matter where one goes, they can never escape who they are inside. Evil exists in all human beings. No one ever wants to admit that they are evil so they place the blame for all the evil on something else. In this case it was the beast. The dead parachuter was what the boys thought to be the beast. Simon was the only one who accepted the fact that the beast is really only us (p.96, chapter 5) but the other boys just laughed when Simon tried to express this thought on man s evil nature. The Lord of the Flies also represents the evil in everyone.

He even refers to himself as the beast in his conversation with Simon, Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! (p.158, chapter 8) You cannot kill the beast because he is the evil that is everywhere in everyone. You cannot kill the devil himself. Simon now understands the true nature of the evil. After Simon finds out that what everyone thinks is the beast is actually just the parachuter he goes to try and tell the other boys. There he encounters the beast again but this time not in the pig but in the boys themselves. Without social order the boys have no way in controlling the evil inside them and Simon, mistaken for the beast, is killed. The parachuter then floats into away leaving only one beast left on the island, man. Man is a savage beast. This beast inside all people is only suppressed by the rules and standards of society.

Almost all the boys go through a decent into savagery, but perhaps the most visible decent is the one of the choir. They start off as very disciplined, obedient and orderly boys who accepted the authority of the school. Even though there were no adults around to tell them to they still marched in step in two parallel lines (p.15, chapter 1) and still were fully clothed despite the heat. As soon as it was decided that Jack would be in charge of the choir, he wanted them all to be the hunters. It was through the boys hunting that they became less human and began to turn into their animal selves. Jack was the worst of all at this. He would get down on all fours dog-like and sniff his nose only a few inches from the humid earth (p.48, chapter 3) Another thing Jack and the hunters did was painting their face. This was a symbol of him losing his identity, and become an animal without passion, thoughts, or even a soul.

This enables them to brutally slaughter the sow with her piglets and enjoy it greatly. This love of blood and power eventually leads to the murder of Simon and then of Piggy. Without anyone telling them what is right and what is wrong they act using their basic human nature which is ultimately savage. Through the events that took place on this island one can see the tragic truth of human nature. Left to live solely on his own devices, goodness would be forgotten and evil would prevail. Man would not be able to survive without society. Golding sadly confirms the fact that the most destructive, evil and savage animal is man.

The lord of the flies began by a plane crash near the Pacific Ocean during an unnamed war in which a group of English schoolboys are lonely on an island, under no adult control. They are left on the island to feed themselves and fight their own battles. The boys started to make rules and laws in which everyone had to follow, but they tended to have arguments with each other when deciding rules. They collapse from their friendships because they didn’t agree with the decisions or rules they made.

The story starts off with a young character called Ralph. Ralph is a very organised person, making the reader becomes inclined to think that he is also an intelligent individual. He seems certain throughout the book that his father, a commander in the Navy, will come and rescue him and his peers. He was eventually chosen to be a designated leader of the group by the others. This is most likely because he is a polite character and he also carried the advantage of being one of the older members of the group. Piggy was Ralph’s best friend; this is largely due to the fact that he listened to what he said and didn’t hesitate to follow his rules. Eventually, as time passed by, piggy developed into a father figure towards the younger boys.

‘Lord of the flies’ has become a widely known story over the years, due to the unusual idea of the famous ‘conch.’ The boys took to the idea of using this conch to grant one another the power to speak-out without being interrupted in the many assemblies they had. With Ralph as the leader, it was inevitable to the reader that a device of this kind would be thought up, as Ralph, being a sensible youth, seemed to appreciate the great importance of being able to sustain order within the temporary community. This is why he came up with the idea of using a conch. In doing this, the element of fairness in Ralph’s character is also demonstrated to the reader. Ralph began to find rules and limits in which they could remain safe on the island.

Ralph, Jack and Simon explored the island and began plans for shelters from the weather. Simon was a young lad, although he was still granted respect from the elders, and likewise he respected them. Ralph also made the decision that a fire should be lit permanently on the mountains as a constant smoke signal. This was a very pragmatic idea, again demonstrating to the reader the great leadership skills that Ralph possessed.

Ralph then decides to have a meeting about lighting a fire on the mountains and Jack also decides to make a hunting party to hunt for pigs. A small boy claims to have seen a serpent-like beast, but the idea is quickly discarded after Ralph and Jack convince the group to collect wood. The group hurriedly rushes to the mountain and collect wood for a fire. At first they didn’t have anything to light the fire with. Then jack uses Piggy’s glasses as a magnifying glass to make sunrays as heat. Although there was only a little amount of fire created, the rest of the boys put some green branches on the fire, so they could have more fire. When the next meeting happened Ralph decided to make more regulations or commands to set people on specific tasks like building shelters and putting the fire on.

From now Ralph and Jack start to make different decisions and start to ignore Ralph’s rules. Jack got more into hunting and started to forget his to goal of being rescued. Everyone started doing there own kind of activities, while Ralph and Simon were the only ones who were building shelters. The younger children started to help less and got more into playing games on the beach.

Later on, a ship sails past the island but unluckily fails to notice the boys because Jack’s choir had let the fire out completely. Jack and his boys had lost attention in the fire and had gone off hunting. Jack and his boys caught a pig and told Ralph about all the things that had happened during his absence. However, he wasn’t interested as he was much more concerned over the fact that they’d failed to keep the fire going. “There was a ship out there, they might have seen us and we could have gone home. Your stupid ideas about hunting let everything down.” Jack lights the fire again by using Piggy’s glasses and prepares pigs meat for a little feast. By reading this phrase proves that Ralph cared about him self and others to be rescued.

Later on in the story situation had changed from fire into beast situation because the young children’s were scared at night and told Ralph and jack that there is a beast on the island. Jack didn’t bother about Ralph rules and started to protect little children’s from beast. One night when piggy and Ralph were sleeping, the twins rushed to them and told them that they saw a beast with huge claws and teeth’s. Ralph then made a little assembly in the morning and told the rest of the children’s about what Sam and Eric saw last night. Jack and Ralph went to explore the island with some other children’s but they didn’t find anything.

Ralph told the group to keep the fire going as well, while we are searching for the beast. The group started to ignore Ralph rules and joined Jack to hunt for the beast. Ralph still hanged around with jack for a little while. Jack told some of the children to come along with him so they can check if there is a beast living on the top of the mountain. Ralph volunteered to come along as well. They claim to see something which they were influenced as if it was the beast. They ran away from the living thing and came down the mountain to protect their self.

Ralph had planned a feast at night. They invited everyone to come and eat with them. They all were chanting and started to become louder and louder. Roger pretended if he was a beast and everyone slowly tried to attack him. Piggy stood in one place looking at them. While they were enjoying the festival, “Simon” went up to the mountain to see if there was really a beast living up there. He walked through the woods and ended up on the mountain. When he saw the beast he stepped back and got scared. Then he went to take a closer look at the beast and he found out that it was only a person made out of parachute which always got blown by the wind and makes it move. It pretended that if it was a real beast.

Simon went running down the mountain and ran through the forest to tell everyone that there is no beast. While he is returning the boys saw that there was figure coming down. Someone shouted out that it’s a beast. Everyone rushed towards him and stabbed him several times until he can’t move. Then they stopped stabbing it and found out that the dead body was Simon.

Ralph was in tears about Simon death. Now there were only piggy and Eric left on his side. Ralph told piggy that this was a murder. Piggy replied that it was too dark to see, it was also raining with thunders. It was accident said piggy. We couldn’t see who it was. It could have been anyone.

Jack had stolen piggy glasses and their fire place. They had fort near the cliffs. Ralph and piggy went to the castle to collect piggy specs from jack, because they needed the specs to light the fire so they can be rescued of from the island. Piggy told jack that he has got the conch and he has got the right to talk. during his speech, he says “that you lot are acting like a bunch of kids with your faces painted like Niger’s”.

Jack wasn’t even listening to piggy, than Ralph took the conch of piggy and called jack a thief and they both got into a fight. Everyone started to chant. Then eventually the pair stopped, and Piggy spoke. His long speech was interrupted when one of the savages rolled a huge rock down the cliff which struck Piggy and pushed him forty feet down the mountain and ended up falling on top of the pointy rocks. Jack showing no signs of remorse threw a spear which hit Ralph in the ribs. Ralph ran to the forest to save his self.

All of the boys were gone, Ralph thought. Only cruelly children have remained. While Ralph was in the forest, he saw Sam and Eric. They told him that he should run and hide because Jack and Roger were going to hunt him soon. Suddenly Roger came to see if the twins were keeping guard. Ralph hid in a grove. When Roger left, Ralph ran away and thought about the best course of action. The island was on fire. The whole group was looking for Ralph. Jack spotted him and the whole group was soon chasing after him through the forest. Ralph was humiliated and ran out of the forest, and fell into the sand, in front of two shoes. The shoes of a sailor whose ship was waiting to take them home. Ralph told him about the deaths and then broke into tears. The sailor said “he wasn’t suspecting like this kind things from English boys”.

Diary based on two characters, “which I consider may have become the selected leader”.

Piggy

When i was first crashed on an island, I was so scared, because there was no one to look after me or the rest of the group. I met a boy called Ralph. I told him what they used to call me back at the school time. Ralph started to have a little laugh. We carried on walking by the beach, when both us came across a shell. Ralph picked it up and asked me what you exactly do with this. “You blow it from underneath the hole and it makes a loud noise”, piggy replied in a gentle voice. “In olden times people use to take this has a symbol of justice, to speak out in assemblies”.

As they we were walking and talking to each other, we saw a group of boys walking towards us; they were singing a song.

Jack was one of the boys in that group. He asked our names, and then sat down and starts talking about how did they both met each other. When they were in middle of their conversation Ralph said that “they should have a leader who will give rules to everyone about how they are going to live, eat and do other things”.

Jack and Ralph were both chosen to receive votes. Only a few people voted for jack, but quiet few of them said that Ralph should be the chief. Then at last I slowly raised my hand up voting for Ralph. Everything was going great. The entire group was following Ralph’s rules, later on things started to collapse because jack and Ralph didn’t agree with each other decisions.

I was Ralph’s best friend and I didn’t like jack because he didn’t treated me in the same way like he did to everyone else. He called my names and said that I am too fat to do anything good. They all ways leave me behind with the little children’s because I was like their father figure. Jack always has wondered off to hunting and the fire would always go off. Our main advantage of the fire was the smoke, which was their signal of proving that someone or something is on the island and they need their help.

Ralph

When I was crashed on the island, I felt a bit scared because there was no one on the island to look after me. There were a lot of different sounds coming from the trees, like if something was looking or hunting for something. When I was walking beside the trees the first person I met was piggy. I told him my name and a bit about my self. Piggy was so kind and didn’t raise his voice above mine.

When we were walking down, we saw a group of boys coming down. They were singing a song. A group of boys from them was called jack, he asked our names and then started talking about what’s going to happen on this island. I said, “That. There should be a leader who is going to tell everyone what to do, what to eat, what’s there jobs” e.c.t

They both agreed with each other decisions. Then jack said to everyone to put their hands up who want me to be the chief. Only a few people voted for him but when it was my turn nearly everyone said that he should be the chief of us. Slowly, slowly my friend piggy raised his hand up at last. I told them that I am the chief, I will tell you lot what to do and what not to do. I structured everyone some fundamental things and told my group to follow some crucial regulations so we can be rescued of from the island. My main rule was to maintain the fire going so we can be noticed on the island and then can be capable of being rescued.

Later on jack stopped listening to my rules because he said that I don’t do anything for hunting or I don’t feed the little children’s. From then jack never listened to me and always wondered off to do hunting or to have fun on the beach. During jack’s hunting, he killed a pig and became so excited to tell this news to me. I wasn’t bothered if they had killed a pig or not because I told them that there was a ship out there. If you lot didn’t have gone off to hunting we could have gone home. Your stupid plans to go for hunting had failed me the group, also let out the fire.

I was disappointed of being a leader of my group. My worries are that I wish that everyone had worked in a group and then we can have been rescued off from the island soon as possible. Everyone didn’t do as i told them to, except from my best friend piggy.

Simon is a member of the choir, but is the only one who seems weak. Simon is introduced in the novel when he faints; this is a show of his weakness. He is a lot like piggy, but not as bullied. Ralph thinks he is ‘queer’ and ‘funny’ because he is realistic.

Simon is the first boy to notice the candle bud flowers when they are out walking. Simon always sees the spiritual side of the island. The only place you see candles nowadays is in churches. Jack slashes at the candle buds with his knife keeping up his reputation as the anarchist.

The creepers on the island are long vines. The small children see these creepers as “beasties”. When the little child comes forward during a meeting, he describes a ‘snake-thing’, then changes his mind to a ‘beastie’. The boy makes out the ‘beastie to be evil’. The beastie the boy has seen is not a physical monster it is a monster inside the boy’s head. The most terrifying thing is darkness and the unknown. The unknown makes the human imagination go wild and ask all the questions it can, “What’s out there?” “Is it a huge big snake” “Is it coming to get me in the night?”

The snake-like thing the ‘little-un’ describes is symbolic of the serpent in the story of Adam and Eve. In Genesis, in the Bible, the serpent is portrayed as the devil and acts against god’s wishes; it offers Eve the fruit from the tree of knowledge, unknowing of the consequences, Eve accepts the fruit. She offers the fruit to her husband, Adam. They both eat the fruit and become aware of their state of undress. When God came walking in the garden he found that Adam and Eve had hidden their genitalia under fig leaves. God banished Adam and Eve from Eden. The serpent, the devil, had won.

Simon is the one who is helping to construct the huts on the beach. He believes the shelters will guard from the ‘beastie’. This is for the benefit of the rest of the group, not selfish like Jack and his crazed hunt for pigs. Simon is a bit of a loner; he has his own cove in the jungle, which he keeps secret from everyone else. This place has ‘more sunlight’ than the rest of the jungle and is decorated with floral bouquets. The jungle suddenly turns into a picturesque haven from the outside anger of the island. But Simon is not escaping the outside force he is merely running from himself, the Simon that exists with the other boys.

When he is inside his special sanctuary he fells protected. There is the appearance of the candle bud flowers again, and coupled with the safety and sanctuary of the cove it almost turns into a church. When the tight canopy of creepers envelops Simon, the light in the cove increases. The passage describes of how the evil in this part of the jungle disappears, ‘Darkness poured out’. Simon is the light in the darkness of the island; he is the only voice of religion amongst the chaos of evil.

Golding is showing Simon to be a spiritual guide in the book. When he is walking through the jungle towards his cavern, he comes across some small children, “little-uns”. They are trying to reach some fruit located just beyond their grasp in a tree. Simon obligingly picks the ‘choicest’ fruit from the foliage and passes it back down to the ‘endless outstretched hands’. This scene can be likened to an event in the bible, which is where Jesus Christ feeds five thousand people with a few loaves of bread and some fish. Simon is the saviour for these children; they had been trying for hours to reach the juiciest fruit from the tree and Simon has got it for them with very little ease.

Simon’s description by Golding shows he has a mop of hair, which is black in colour. This is like that of Jesus Christ, again rekindling the association with a spiritual nature.

Like Piggy Simon is clear-sighted, he knows what is best, but unlike Piggy he advises on the religious meanings of the island. He is the first boy in the party to notice the transformation that has occurred on the island. He sees that, the island they once took for an Eden, has under gone a metamorphosis into a place of evil. When Jack talks of how the ‘little-uns’ scream in their sleep, terrified of the ‘beastie’ Simon is the first to acknowledge “As if the beastie was real” and “As if it wasn’t a good island.” Simon is still blaming the evil experience on an outside force, he, like the entire group still fail to see the evil is within or “The darkness within”. Jack also senses the evil on the island, he likens it to a physical presence when he goes hunting, “…you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but-being hunted: as if something’s behind you…”

The boys on the island have difficulty finishing their sentences; this is because they are scared and embarrassed of their situation. The boys themselves find it difficult to understand the emotions they are feeling and whether these emotions should be listened to. The situation is like that of the Jews in Egypt from the Old Testament in the Bible. When the evil Egyptian slave masters ruled them, they were not enjoying themselves but they had some kind of law and order. When Moses freed them, they were happy at the wonders of freedom, but soon were reduced to a rabble of immoral ‘wrong-doers’.

The boys have been ruled by grown-ups all their lives and when they find themselves on the Island, they are ecstatic, but when things get difficult and new feelings arise, bad things happen. Luckily for the Jews Moses was there to save them, he went to God and received the Ten Commandments that brought law and order back to his people. Maybe something similar will happen in this novel. Simon may save the boys, or he may be symbolising Moses and some other, yet unknown force, is God.

Evil Through Imagery It has been said for a long time that the only thing to fear is fear itself. It is easy to see that the boys become subject to their own illogical fears. In Lord of the Flies, by William Gilding, Imagery Is used to describe the Island and the characters themselves In dark and mysterious ways. Imagery Is also used as a way for the boys to create the beast and make it external as well as internal. There are several instances in the novel where people are described using ominous language. When Jack and his choir are seen for the first time they are scribed as a ;creature… Room throat to ankle, hidden by black cloaks” (19). The choir’s first Impression suggests that their purpose In the novel Is antagonistic In nature. Gilding’s imagery automatically Identifies the characters In story that are associated with the more evil aspects of human nature such as fear and violence. Later in the novel, it seems that the older boys only become worse, with fear growing in them like an uncontrollable weed. It is noticeable when Jack starts disguising himself “[looking] in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger… He face of red and white and black” (63-64).

In his slow submission to fear, Jack Is becoming another person entirely from the boy who Initially crashed on the island and It Is shown literally here by him painting his face and changing his identity. The fear created on the island, in the form of the beast, is exposing Jack for what he really is, which is demonic and wicked in nature. Gilding uses imagery often to describe the malicious intent of characters throughout the novel, but he does not only describe characters in this way. The island on which the boys are stranded on Is meticulously described in the kook and most of the words used to Illustrate It are grim at best.

When Gilding describes where Piggy and Ralph first find themselves, he describes the ground as “covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar. ” (9-10). Already, the island, though it has done no wrong, is becoming a canvas on which Gilding can paint his picture of doom and despair. Small things, such as this, are described assiduously through the inure novel.

This Is used to give perspective and show cause to why the boys do what they do, among a variety of other things, the boys are reacting to their environment which is portrayed with no less than a vulgar light. When the boys go on their first expedition, which results in them pushing a boulder over, “the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster” (28). Gilding describes the devastation of the forest like this with a purpose, he is alluding to the fear that later controls the boys, or the beast. The disturbance of the peace from the the scar.

Simple items on the island are portrayed much more villainous than they actually are for the purpose of showing what the boys have done to the island by corrupting it’s innocence and peace with their naturally wicked human nature. The author makes use of both the image of characters and the setting of the island to show that humanity can turn anything into something foul, even a beautiful and untouched island. The imagery does not stop with the island and the characters, it also creates the very beast which leads to some of the characters downfall. When the twins first see he horrible beast they describe it as “furry.

There was something moving behind its head-?wings. The beast moved too-? That was awful. It kind of sat up… There were eyes-? Teeth-? Claws-?” (100). At this point in the novel, rational thinking has become scarce and is only really found in Piggy and Simon. Sam and Eric truly believe in what they saw and their grisly description only acts as a catalyst for the other boys descent into madness from the fear. Since Simon is not effected by the illusion of the beast, he understands that the beast is not real but the Lord of the Flies corrects him “Fancy hinging that the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!…

You knew didn’t you? ” (143-144). Gilding’s imagery brought to life a character that is really Just the embodiment of the horror and destructiveness in the boys, revealing what the authors true beliefs about human nature are. Though, he does not seem to think that man kind is entirely uncontrollable. Simon is used as a beacon of hope and good intention. Simony’s death is also very unique, using light imagery to state how Simon was the only light in the darkness all along. Towards the end of the novel, the beast comes very real, more than Just a figment of the boys wildest and darkest fears.

In conclusion, imagery describes human kind’s nature through the characters, the island, and of course the beast or fear in the boys. The scary images used in the novel make it very easy to see why the boys went against each other in the end, proving that humanity is it’s own worst enemy. Overall, the author’s opinion about human nature influenced every facet of the novel and how it was written, but of course the most obvious expression of Gilding’s opinion is seen in the imagery.

Lord of the Flies Human Nature In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding has young and innocent children on a remote island to test how human nature works. Golding uses objects such as the conch and the Beast to reflect our society politically and psychologically. The novel shows human’s own illness and human nature. Human nature is unavoidable and can be a source of evil. It is one’s nature to do whatever it takes in order to survive. By trying to survive one’s evil creeps out. Jack and his hunters showed the most evil. The first pig being killed was the first sign of evil.

They celebrated the killings and became blood thirsty for hunting. It was human nature for the hunters and the little boys to follow Jack and to try to survive on the island. Evil is an inborn trait that lives inside every one. It is our parents’ job to teach good morals and values when we are young, but evil can not be fully covered up. The children enjoyed the freedom away from rules and adults. As time passes on the island their freedom soon turns into a nightmare and in the end some died. Civilization is not so far from savagery and everyone has some kind of evil lurking about.

Even the little innocent British boys have a certain amount of evil in themselves. The kids are used to rules, but they soon realize that rules do not matter anymore. They can not be punished for throwing rocks or pushing a boulder and killing someone. Roger can not get into trouble by adults anymore, so his human nature kicks in and he reveals his evilness. He was able to kill without getting into trouble. The Beast is messing with the kids’ minds and they become crazed little boys. The fear makes them turn into savages and kill to survive. The Beast is like a phobia for the littluns.

Beast from the Air arrives and stirs up some more trouble. It confuses them because they realize there are more things to be cautious of. The conch was supposed to be good, but the power of it changes the kids. Jack and Ralph fight about who has the conch and who is the leader. It is human nature for Jack to desire the conch and what is not his. Human nature has a big role in Lord of the Flies and many of the kids can not handle it. Once human nature was revealed many turned into little killers. It was human nature to try to survive and many did live at the end, but at the cost of lives.

The growing fear infiltrates their mind and then this fear, as almost as if it were a disease, eventually spreads to the rest of the boys, and they become reckless, wild, and feral. Boys are getting killed, and a power struggle surges t wrought the group. Throughout the novel, they always try to put a physical form to this beast since e it is easier to overcome, and kill something physical, whereas in reality, you cannot domain et what is inside you. However, as some characters demonstrate in Gildings work, such as Oral pH and Simon, it can be controlled. These characters show the true way of how to live with our inner beast.

In other cases, such as Jack and Roger, the Beast is something that they overcome brace and instead of them controlling it, it overcomes them and the beast becomes them. As huh man beings, it is impossible to ignore what lies Inside of us, but sometimes, people such as Pig guy from the novel, try to push it aside and pretend it doesn’t exist. William Gilding suggests that having the power to either control the beast, or to not, and whether or not to recognize its presence, it can either make us stronger, it can corrupt us, or it can make us naive and foolish.

It is the person’s choice, and responsibility to which h they choose, and the choice makes all Of the difference as to who we become in society. There comes a certain time in a boys life where he first encounters the beast within him. For Ralph, its when he first originally goes hunting with the boys. Feeling it inside of him, he loves the rush and annalistic characteristics that become him. In spite of that, he still takes a second to step back from that, controlling his will to think. Ralph is a strong-willed thinks and believes in the rule of law and order.

To him, he knows that the beast is there inside, but he chooses to not have it overrule his beliefs. In some situations, such as hunting, the beast isn’t such a bad thing, but do we need it in everyday society? Simon is a character who is almost a live inning and breathing religious metaphor in the novel. He is the one who first suggests that the beast t isn’t a physical monster roaming the islands and eating children, but that we are the beast; we are the fear and uncontrollable wild. When Simon introduces this idea, our eyes open, not to what is around us, but what is inside us.

Both characters are examples of how if we wish to have a successful and thriving civilization, the beast must be recognized and controlled within us. At the end of the novel, when the boys are rescued, Ralph is the one to Step forward and say he was in charge even though power and blood thirsty Jack won over the title of Chief of the island. This reveals how the selector of one’s own beast rules in a realistic society. If you have the WI lopper to be able to not let something so savage take over your personal beliefs and values, then that is what really matters.

Jack’s beast is something that corrupted him and made him Lose sight of what is really important, which in the real world is something you always need to ERM mind yourself of. The beast is an evil and menacing dark power that invades one’s thoughts an d poisons the goodness inside of us. Or so it IS when we analyze roles portrayed by the likes of Jack. Right from the start, we can Jack has a dark side to him, but as the novel progresses, that just becomes pure evil.

In fact, his inner savagery becomes so fierce, he plans and tries to ski II his foil, Ralph, and even does kill poor, innocent Simon. Jack is a perfect example of how if we don’t control our beast, we ourselves become so uncontrollable. To him, he has no interest of being rescued. He loves the rush and adrenaline of being in charge and having no one there of significant authority to tell him he’s in the wrong. The beast has overcome his commons ensue and act of discipline so much so that he has literally gotten so madly out of control, that there is no turning back.

Between the rituals of face painting and dancing around fires, having a pee pole chant his name, and cutting off pigs head to put them on stakes as an offering to be SST, we no longer can see a truly human side to Jack. He is a beast. William Gilding, through this character, shows us as readers the importance of not becoming like Jack, and the importance o f being able to recognize how severe this beast can become. Roger is a less severe case Of becoming the beast. Instead of craving power, he craves the joy of watching others suffer under his termination. The beast can also turn us into the worst kind of bullies.

Near the end of the novel , Roger kills Piggy; Gilding uses this to show the end of true civilization and reasoning on the Islam, since that is what Piggy represented. The beast is what turns everything into turmoil. It ova recover most of the boys by taking over their minds and bodies. No longer are they able to HTH ink for themselves when they have this savagery running wild within them. Through the use of the sees two characters in particular, Gilding shows that although we recognize the beast, letting it VA anguish us as humans is not what we need in order to prosper and grow.

There becomes points in a chills life where they ultimately become so afraid, they choose to ignore the fear. Instead of facing their problems and issues, they push them a way as if they don’t matter nor exist. In the novel Lord of the Flies, a character who represents HTH s side to the beast, is Piggy. When first arriving on the island, Piggy outshines the others in terms of intelligence and rationale. However, he doesn’t have the confidence or support to become chi beef of the island. Piggy’s greatest fault, besides his lack of seeing and weight problem, is his inn ability to see that there truly is a beast.

He tells the younger ones that there is nothing there. A d although he says that we are just afraid, he doesn’t realize there’s more to it. Piggy is naive in the ways of being unable to see the true inner beast that lies within him. Instead of facing the gar owing trepidation that is unsettling, he simply just is left to look after the younger ones or follow inning Ralph around. Gilding uses Piggy as a way to represent that we need to confront this beast that lives within us. In comparison to Ralph, both have fears. Ralph uses his to an advantage to gar owe and become a leader. Piggy doesn’t use his at all and becomes useless.

The message portray  in the novel is that we need to use the beast within to become a legitimate member of socio TTY with the right amount of power. We all start out like Piggy. We all have ideas, and logical thou sought, but fiftieths simply all we have, then unfortunately, we end up dead just as Piggy did. Not facing his fears, or inner beast was Piggy’s biggest destruction. Gilding suggests that being unable e to recognize what was really important, is what will be everyone’s downfall. How we confront what lies within, is the building blocks for how we move up in the world, and how we as people grow.