The Worst Beast In a person’s life, decisions affect everything they do. The struggle between good and evil can complicate everyday choices. When a war breaks out and a group of boys are left to survive on an island all alone, they are faced with several tough decisions. Each of the boys must make a choice that could affect everyone on the island. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, the character Piggy proves his leadership abilities by his reasoning, concern for others, and trying to keep peace.
When they gather around for the first time after Ralph summons them, he declares “We’ll have rules…lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks ‘em-.” (Golding 33). The boys are excited to have rules; they are comforted by this thought, even Jack, who is in obvious competition with Ralph to become chief from the very start. They are welcoming to the thought of punishment if rules are broken, because this is how they function in their civilized lives. When Jack finds out there are animals on the island, he wants to hunt them.
This quote shows that the school boys are actually forgetting who they really are and worshiping the devil by sacrificing a pig. With this in mind Roger kills Piggy by pushing down a rock with, "delirious abandonment," (Golding, 180). After his death no one in Jack’s tribe had any remorse for Piggy nor Ralph, showing that they are willing to kill and enjoy it. Golding’s message by this, shows that when in total abandonment of Government and society, humans are willing to kill anything. In brief, the novel, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, shows that without adults on the island, the boys became vicious, disorderly, and evil.
Theme is the lesson being taught in the story and it is always showing up in this book. The theme that appears in throughout the novel is the importance of getting along and bonding with others in society. William Golding shows this theme in Lord of the Flies when Jack breaks away from the rest of the group to create his own tribe because he doesn’t agree with Ralph just caring about having a signal so they can be rescued. Jack cares about finding food and hunting for the rest of the group so that they can survive on the island while waiting for rescue. There is no communication
He thinks of building shelters to protect them and to start a fire for their rescue. He becomes friend with Piggy, the fat boy that receives taunts and teases from the other boy, and gets used to rely on Piggy's intellectual reasoning. Ralph is brave when the occasion presents it, but he really miss for the secure world of adults, especially when order starts to break down on the island. He dreams about a rescue and insists that the signal fire always has to burn so that they can be seen. Ralph considers that the main reason for the disorder on the island is Jack, the antagonist and representation of evil in the novel.
Tiffany Sangphet Mrs. Aaron Honors English I 25 November 2014 The Values of the Island Boys Everyone in the world has personal and social values. Characters in novels are people who have values as well. In Lord of the Flies a group of boys land on an unfamiliar and uncivilized island that has no adult supervision. They meet up with each other and work together. They all want to survive so they all try to create an organized environment.“‘We’ll have rules’ he cried excitedly.
Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy meets and discovers a conch shell on the beach. Ralph accepts idea of piggy and when they push air through the conch the sound make the other boys in the island to meets together. The boys are left to govern themselves, range in age that Ralph and Jack two older boys . They votes to put Ralph leader of them . Thus, he was the boy has a conch .The leadership was the key of all trouble faced them.
“[…] Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called Piggy” (182). This quote shows that Ralph has realized that he will never be the dame since he lost his innocence and learned that evil is in all human beings. In Golding’s Lord of the Flies a group of boys gets crashed onto an island and struggles to survive. Ralph is entitled leader, but the Jack disagrees and decides to run his own group. The boys start to fight and have mini war.
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.
The beautiful island becomes a hell at the end of the novel. Finally, when Ralph is escaping from the hunting of other boys, he is saved by a navy officer who takes all boys back to the ship. Towards the end of the last chapter, the passage "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man' heart, and the fall through the air of his true, wise friend called Piggy" demonstrates the main theme of this novel: man is evil by nature. The three things that Ralph weeps for are the lessons he has on this island: innocent boys become savage; all human beings have evil deep inside their hearts and the fall of science and rationality before the evil of human. These three issues are developed throughout the whole novel with this passage as the conclusion of the main theme - human beings are evil by nature.