Some people, like Simon, understand this concept and he says: ‘Maybe there is a beast... maybe it’s only us.’ Other people, like Ralph, do not want to believe that there is a dark side to humanity and in Chapter 2 he constantly shouts: ‘but there isn’t a beast!’ Golding successfully gets across his message that there’s ‘darkness in man’s heart’ by the frightening way he describes several events in the book. The killing of the mother sow is an extremely shocking event in the novel. When it describes that ‘the great bladder of her belly was fringed with a row of piglets’ it shows how savage the boys have become and how much they have changed, especially Jack, because at the beginning of the novel he had difficulty killing the piglet because of ‘the enormity of the knife descending and cutting in to living flesh’ and now ‘practice had made Jack silent as the shadows.’ The quote ‘wedded to her in lust’ shows us that they specifically want the female pig and won’t rest until they have her. The scene is extremely graphic and the notion of what they are doing is terrifying. The fact that the pig went from being ‘in maternal bliss’ to ‘dim-eyed and grinning faintly’ is also terrifying, because they took something innocent and turned it into something wicked, which is essentially what happened to them.
Evil Nature of Human Beings In the Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the boys experiment with the evil nature of human beings and end up losing their humanity and sense of civilization. Each of them develops it differently, some grow stronger and realize their wrongs, and others let the evil over take them and transform themselves into beasts. Jack becomes very jealous of Ralph and his power; he wants to take it from him. Jack then creates his own tribe of boys and turns them all against Ralph, meanwhile craving the hunt for food and is power hungry. Ralph represents the goodness left on the island, while Jacks worst got the best of him.
He also picks fights with all the other jurors, he even threatened to kill juror #8 after he called him a sadist. He expressed a lot of anger in his thoughts which changed the way a few jurors thought of the defendant. No one knew till the end when juror #3 started crying and revealed his sensitive side. He looked grumpy and disturbed the whole movie and his emotions finally break lose. The real reason he was being so obnoxious was because he had issues with his teenage son which effected his opinions about teenagers.
The IF lied to him and told him that it was just a game when it was not. He had been fighting the buggers since he had gotten to battle school. In a way Ender kind of is a killer and he feels like it sometimes. Ender feels that he is a killer, although he never wants to kill anyone. He accidently killed Stilson in the beginning of the book without knowing until chapter 15, because he kicked him so many times.
I would like to put forth a different perspective. I believe that every generation has come under fire from their predecessors as being lazy, undefined or different, if you will, from the last. Technology is forever changing our climate and has for quite some time. Our generation has the distinct advantage of having grown up in the most technologically advanced age that we have seen. Due to this our challenges that we endure in our society today will be quite different from ones seen in the past and will create different situations or obstacles that previous generations have not had to deal with.
First he is the leader of the hunters, but that is not enough for him. Then he builds up his own group, but Ralph’s being chief still tortures him. His hatred towards Ralph goes so far that he seems to be afraid of him. The only “solution” for Jack to free himself is to kill Ralph. This final plan shows a grave lack of humanity and character in
This all seems like a tragic story about the dissolution of a society in to chaos, but the chaos was not completely one-sided. Ralph finds himself in power when he brings the boys together from across the island. He loses the power when Merridew entices them with meat and action. Ralph loses most over time, and tries to win them back with logic and reasoning. This causes a conflict between Ralph and Merridew in terms of leadership, and causes more violence to occur, and eventually the death of three
This symbolizes the loss of innocence because the death of Simon. Their paranoia of the beastie led to the death of Simon because the fear that has built up. Their rage was so strong that they weren't able to realize that the "beastie" was actually Simon, their fellow friend. In the moment "There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws" (Golding. Ch.
We know that as, when there is the rat incident, with everybody being scared, Bigger reacts by killing the beast brutally with a skillet. Also, he reacts with violence against White society as he’s scared of them. But, instead of keeping quiet and minding his own business, he feels the need to rob Blum’s, a white mans, store. However, in the end he doesn’t do it as he is in fear of being caught. Again, though he reacts to it by beating Gus, his friend, up using the excuse of Gus being late to get out of their 4mission.
New inventions, over the decades have made the human race much lazier, causing separation in culture such as the Amish and Mennonites from people that choose to use technology. Technology has also made it easier to observe how other cultures live. New technology in different parts of the world may also lead to culture lag. Culture lag is when different cultures change at different rates. Which is why a culture in 3rd world or 2nd world countries culture would not be as evolved as to that of a 1st world country.