However, by the end of the novel when the conch shell breaks at a confrontation between Jack and Ralp, this exemplifies the complete loss of order and democracy. Simon liked to have time by himself to avoid the bickering between the other boys. Simon found a clearing away from everyone else and eventually stumbled across the beast that everyone in the tribe was so terrified by. Simon ran to tell the tribe that the beast was just a dead parachutist. However, while Simon was trying to explain that the beast was not real he was mistaken for the beast.
The Narrator’s father stepped into the patch and asked Mr Wills “what’s come over you?” , Mr Wills said that his Watermelon seeds were stolen. The narrator’s father was very brave, he grabbed Mr Wills with both arms even though Mr Wills was much bigger, but Mr Wills shoved him away, striking him with his fist. The narrator’s father fell down and Mr Wills did not notice that. To make this moment more in detail and dramatic, Deal showed the insane look of Mr Wills (his teeth gripped over his lower lip, his eyes gleaming furiously) and showed each moment taking place. Then suddenly Mr Wills said in low voice “They Stole my seed melon”.
He does not know what he should do or say. Jealous of the former relationship between his wife and Robert, he is suspicious. He knows that his wife has told Robert about him and has probably complained about his faults. This makes him feel guilty and insecure. He later says how "I was not enthusiastic about his visit.... A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to” (100).
Soon after this conflict occurred, Jack and Piggy had a slight scuffle, however it would be more accurate to say that Jack beat up Piggy, consequently, this resulted in “piggy’s glasses getting damaged, at this time the tribe was still united, however Jack had just made his first mistake of running off to hunt a pig and letting the fire out. Much later in the book the rebel tribe under Jack’s command stole the glasses from Piggy in the night. This was extremely symbolic in many ways as the theft of the glasses also represents the ‘theft of unity’ of the boys and then ‘theft of brotherhood’. It was this event that lead to Piggy’s death, and the ‘theft of intelligence’ from the island. The glasses are an excellent symbol to the reader to state of tension and savagery on the island and are used extremely well by Golding.
Each person in the novel “Lord of the flies” has an evil living nature which is poorly covered up by society. Throughout, the novel, the audience is shown that if society is taken away from civilisation the inner nature of chaos and lawlessness comes out. Golding uses the boys as a way of demonstrating how people can change when time goes on without rules. The boys then change so much that it leads to the death of two young boys. The evil is revealed as they discover that when total control is given to someone destruction occurs within the group.
This shows that savagery haunts Jack because he enforced more violence than his normal self. Another example of savagery among Jack from the book includes the scene of the snatching of Piggy’s specs. The controller of the specs controls the fire. When Jack stole the specs from Piggy, Piggy and Ralph lost the chance of making a fire to help signal that they needed help to get off the island that they got trapped on. However, Jack never understood or cared.
His mother, father, girlfriend and even his own friends have left him. He needs up but he has no one to turn too. Most of the soliloquy is dedicated to Hamlet making self accusations. He calls himself 'a rogue and peasant slave' which he is the total opposite off, he is royalty. He is only saying this because he knows he has neglected his duties, he knows he should have done something already.
Through the story, we see the boys loose their ability to stay civil and an example is, “The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (181). This shows that as the boys started to become savage, they lost all their ability to be civil. Also, since Piggy still believed in the good and civility in people, when he died and the conch broke, we could see that they lost all touch to their past, civil lives. As the boys become more savage, they start becoming what they feared most, the Beastie. To the boys, the Beastie is portrayed as a wild beast that they must hunt down and is a higher power, but what the beast symbolizes is the human reaction to fear.
Yes, it came to Al’s realization that he was losing his touch as a comic writer, but he would never fully admit it to himself. Instead of throwing in the towel, AL resorted to stealing the scripts from a deceased young comic named Davey Farber, whom was killed in World War 2. Al’s actions put his and Sammy’s job in jeopardy, even when Sammy was unaware of what he did. Al kept those scripts locked away in a desk drawer and his girlfriend, Connie, would repeatedly ask him why he had kept them. His response was for “a little sentimentality, and for old time’s sake.” His words are deceiving being that he really keeps them for inspiration, and possibly a back-up plan when he can be comical no more.
Victor discovered ‘the elixir of life’ and that he was capable of ‘bestowing animation upon lifeless matter’ as his knowledge increased. After finally creating the monster and noticing what he had led himself into he decides to abandon the monster causing death upon many. The evil lays in Victors heartless acts of disowning his creation due to appearance. On the other hand, Clerval’s father wanted Clerval to learn only what would be necessary for his career, he is implying to him that languages in this case, knowledge, isn’t needed, ‘I make one thousand florins a year without Greek. I eat heartily without Greek’.