(Ralph is more a peacekeeper and Jack is more of a killer) But as the story goes on and they find it obvious that their differences will never be settled, Jack rebelled and made a “rival tribe”. - As soon as Jack leaves and makes his own tribe, I thought someone was going to die because Jack always talked about how he wanted to kill Piggie because he was weak and would make good meat. - The climax is when Simon finds the Lord of the Flies (which is the evil inside of each boy) but then when he tries to explain it to everyone he is killed and everything falls apart it seems. - The plot depended on the boys’ personalities because if it wasn’t for Jack being so rebellious the boys could have gone through the same safe routine every day and eventually be saved; Jack could kill a pig each week they could have all kept the fire going the boys could collect fruit every day this would be a sustainable way to live for at least a
Atreus himself was involved in the tragedy in which he murdered his brother’s children and served them up as a dish to eat. In the Ancient Greek world, this was seen as placing a curse of the house of Atreus which could provide an explanation to the events that occur within the play. Cassandra calls it the ‘house that hates god, the echoing womb of guilt’ which implies that there will always be terrible things happening there as the gods do not approve of it. This starts the argument that the characters have no control over their fate as Agamemnon was always going to meet a sticky end because of the
However, as the book continues we see the stones become a thing of evil as Roger loses his grip on civilisation. The stones come to represent the loss of restriction normally imposed by civilisation. In chapter 11 Roger rolls a huge boulder off the cliff at Castle Rock and onto Piggy, killing him outright. From this we know that Roger has truly lost his grasp on civilisation and has turned from a civilised boy into a savage who is willing to commit murder. “Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned on the lever.” “Delirious” can only refer to his lack of propriety which leads to the death of another human.
Simon is never able to teach the boys that there is no beast. Simon did not kill to survive, rather he died to become the representation of the complete loss of innocence on the island. Simon is a Christ-like figure in that he depicts the goodness that is within mankind and truly becomes this through his death. Through his death, however, he shows how evil is powerful and it can run deep in the human soul as it did in the boys who had killed him. Simon is the sacrifice of the boys' insanity and
This shows how even Ralph becomes a savage for a moment when he takes part in the killing of Simon. This is how Golding illustrates that even the most unlikely people can become savages given the right circumstances. So throughout Lord of the Flies the 3 main reasons I thought the boys became savages were lack of government structure (completely disconnected from the world), collapse of order, and that all people can become savages given the right
Achilles loss of his brother affects his sanity and enrages him to an inhumane vengeance on Hectors body. Achilles struggles to get a grasp on the loss of his broth Patroclus and takes all his anger out on Hectors body after killing him. Achilles convinced himself that his anger would stop after he had killed Patroclus’ killer, Hector. It just continued to enrage him further, as after every time he mutilated Hectors body it receded to a peaceful untouched state. The reader is able to understand the depth of Achilles and Patroclus’ relationship and the strong connection that they shared, which went deeper than just adoptive brothers and cousins they were soul mates.
The conch, Jack’s knife and Piggy’s glasses are such symbols representing Golding’s perception of the Second World War through metaphoric figures. Golding emphasizes through the symbols in this novel the clash of good and evil and his point of view that every person as part of the nature of being human has a bad side that thrives to take over that of the good. Symbolism in “Lord of the Flies” is better applied to reality through Golding’s use of characterization. On the island the conch represents the law and order of the British society the boy’s had come from. The conch is governing authority, keeping those desperate for power under law and giving one the opportunity to speak ones mind as only the person holding the conch is permitted to speak, “Let him have the conch!” shouts Piggy.
You’ll get back all right. I think so, anyway.” Finally, the way he died was the most tragic, because that was when the true savages came out, as they “...screamed, struck, bit, tore.” This was the turning point at where the boys truly came out as savages, by the horrific and brutal death of Simon. In the novel, Simon represents a christ-like figure to society, and in his passing, the island lost that form of hope and sympathy he provided. This means that the society, in the time frame that William Golding was referring to as he wrote this allegory, lost its form of hope,
Simon is also the most tragic figure since he dies a painful death. This is tragic because he died before he could tell the boys about the truth of the “beast,” and the evil within mankind. He could have saved the boys trouble later on if they listened to him. Simon dies being clawed and bitten to death. This is tragic because his death is not quiet or quick, but loud and dragged out.
In this instance, fate is looked upon as being cruel towards mankind. It seems as though fate took the liberty to destroy life where ever it saw fit. “Fate swept him away because of his proud need to provoke a feud with the Frisians.”(85) Fate also causes death to keep people out of misery. For example, “Fate swept [them] far way sent [his] whole brave high-born clan to their final doom.” Fate made it so that neither Beowulf nor his army would be able to fight in battle ever again. Many were saddened by this event, but they understood that fate is the reason why things happened in this