Lord of The Flies “There is a beast in every man and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand” - George R. R. Martin. In William Golding’s novel, The Lord of The Flies, a group of boys find themselves stranded on an island. As they fight for power and struggle to survive, they discover a resident evil in each individual which threatens to overtake the group as a whole. Golding represents this bestiality through symbols such as The Beast, The Lord of The Flies, and a big fire. Golding uses a beast that resonates in each boys head as a symbol for their growing insanity.
Piggy was killed during a fight between the two gangs, one of the members known as roger pushed the rock on top of Piggy. “The rock stuck Piggy a glancing bow from chin knee...traveled through the air sideways from the rock... Fell forty feet and landed on his back. His head opened and came and turned red”. The death of a fellow companion should have at least brought some civilization to the island but since the boys degenerated to savages this wasn’t the case. The boys’ savage show that they are savages by how the pigs are killed.
This perfectly describes the situation on the island. It also accurately describes the death of Piggy. His death was chaotic, violent and no one was really sure of what had happened until it was too late. Out of all the boys Jack became the most savage and blood crazy of them all. He became absolutely obsessed with hunting and killing pigs.
Batter is the unlawful physical violence on another person without their consent. Assault is a specific intent crime and battery is the commission of the specific intent. To constitute assault one has to commit an overt act from which the inference can be drawn that a violent injury was intended. Aggravated assaults are assaults with the intent to commit another offense like rape or murder. Aggravated assault can mean that assault is committed with the intention of committing an additional crime or something that involves a special circumstance.
Montag threatens Beatty with the flamethrower and burns his boss alive, and knocks his coworkers unconscious. As Montag escapes the scene, the firehouse's mechanical dog attacks him, managing to inject his leg with a tranquilizer. He destroys it with the flamethrower and limps away. Montag runs through the city streets towards Faber's house. Faber urges him to make his way to the countryside and contact the exiled book lovers who live there.
This is extremely terrible and animalistic of them to do. At the feast they develop a circle and chant morbid sayings. They even end up killing Simon. This is when they really pass the line. Killing one of their own is turning them extremely savage.
Therefore it is clear that abuse of power causes the destruction of spirituality. Next, symbolism is used in the novel to represent destruction of spirituality due to corruption. Here Roger kills the sow which they hunted in a very unusual/unpleasant way, that it clearly represents fallen spirituality. “Roger found a lodgment for his points and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. […] ‘Right up her ass!’ ‘Did you hear?’ ‘Did you hear what he said?’ ‘Right up her ass!’” (Golding 149).
You’re hurting! All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of Frenzy […] that was a good game. Just a game.” (114-115) If Robert was not screaming and struggling to get out of the grasp of the older boys then he could of easily been killed and no one would have been there to stop it from happening. On the island, everyone believed that there was a beast that wanted to kill everyone. Simon figured out that the beast was actually a dead pilot attached to a parachute.
The two started a moment, and the truth was open to each. Regin snatched at his belt for a dagger and leapt at the young man, who sprang up and away, fumbling for his sword (Coolidge 1057). Since Kreon yearns for respect so badly that he tries to kill his own niece and that my friend starts the domino effect of bad luck. His son attempted to kill him and then after failing to kill him, his son commits suicide, his wife commits suicide, his niece dies and then of top of all that the people of his city hate him. Sigurd ends up killing the dragon and after killing the dragon he starts to roast the dragon’s heart which is filled with knowledge.
There is many arguments covering the topic regarding if man is born like a savage or if it is society that is polluting mankind. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the sanity in Piggy’s last words while Roger slaughters him to death is not enough to bring the events on these pages to a close. Surviving a harsh plane crash with no parents or adults of any kind, creates a problem for most of the boys, including Roger. Roger, due to his inner nature, turns savage in the jungle allowing him to hunt and kill people. Roger’s cruel acts did not just appear out of nowhere; there were things that lead up to the fact that he is getting more dark.