Argumentative Claims Claim #1: The young boys weren't living in a normal environment which lead them to savagery. Claim #2 Relationships were falling apart which lead the boys to challenge each other. Claim #3 The boys were competing with each other that made the boys more savage. Evidence to Back up Claims Evidence #1 “ Kill the Beast, Cut his throat, Spill his blood” Evidence #2 “ I’m not going to be part of Ralph lot--.... I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone that wants to hunt when I do can come too.” said Jack Evidence #3 “ They hate you , Ralph. They are going to you… They’re going to hunt you tomorrow” Reasoning to Back-Up Claim Reasoning #1 When they don’t live in a social environment they start to …show more content…
They decided on how they are going to live in an orderly environment and to maintain survival. The boys also agreed on ideas that will lead themselves to survival. But conflict started to occur between the young boys which lead these boys to a separation between the group. They became very hatred with one another and started to cause violence between the group of boys. They developed savagery as the hatred from the groups started to get to them. Human beings are basically violent and savage, which makes civic order impossible to …show more content…
This is because when they are not in a normal society they become more savage and not like a normal human. “ They hate you , Ralph. They are going to you… They’re going to hunt you tomorrow”(271 on CB). What this means is usually when someone becomes savage they become more crazy angrier and that is what was happening to Jack he was bloodthirst to kill Ralph when they both started to challenge each other when they didn’t get along. The other side of the argument is that everyone argues and that we people don’t turn savage. But the argument that the boys were competing with each other that made the boys more savage is still true. The key point is that they are in a society where they would eventually turn savage from competing with each other people they don’t have a daily basis like us regular humans
Is it right to leave behind what a person believes in order to join a safer group? In William Golding’s classic novel Lord of the Flies the characters Sam and Eric are very civil characters who makes the decision to “go with the flow” from the moment the plane crashes to the moment the boys are rescued. Throughout the book, these twins struggle to decide which of the two leaders to follow. In the end it seems that Samneric leave Ralph’s civil tribe and join Jack’s savage tribe. However, Samneric never change their beliefs.
The quotation above is the dialogue between Ralph and Samneric (twin). It shows that they still care with Ralph, because they were part of Ralph 's group before. They ask Ralph go escape far away because Jack will be killed tomorrow. The above quote also mention about forgetting common sense and also a chief. It shows that they 're no longer thinking based on logic or based on the superego.
The boys need fend for themselves and they all had to figure out how to survive. Eventually all of the boys soon turned into savages and went against one another by hurting the others. There are two main characters who took charge right away due to no supervision: Jack and Ralph. Jack was mainly in charge of hunting, and Ralph was in charge of shelters. Each of the boys are in competition for chief, which leads to lack of authority.
(Golding,70) the boys only protected themselves if anything was going to happen but since there was no beastie present they let their thoughts flow to the point of killing the boys just for the dumbest reasons, for example Simon . Evilness took over the innocent boys they were, which made them think that he was the beast. The rules werent set first so everything got out of control, the boys lacked civilization which made everyone follow one leader, Jack which led them all to evil
I Don’t Care: An Essay In the book Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, a young boy is brutally murdered by his friends in an attempt to kill the beast. After this happens, the others deny what they have done and descend into animalistic madness, that they realize only when logic and reason save them. Jack’s character changes during the novel, starting as a boy in charge of a choir, afraid to kill a pig, ending with him trying to kill one who was once his friend. In the beginning, Jack feels fear at the desire to kill, “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up” (51).
In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of stranded boys survive on an island with no adults, soon their sense of morality falls apart and violence takes place. The loss of morality causes the boys to break the rules and become violent. Eventually, the boys become uncivilized and stop caring about their actions. They get to a point where they disregard logical thought and resort to violence without reason. As the story progresses, the absence of morality causes violence to reign among the boys.
The devil worship is what took them off track from their morals, turning them to violence. Golding utilizes imagery to exhibit the boys’ abandonment
Another key reason that “humans are basically violent and savage, which makes civic order in a society impossible to sustain” is that when the boys turn into savages, there rule-based society falls apart. After the boys come back from the hunt dancing and singing and painting themselves in a frenzy they mistake Simon for the beast and kill him, they start kind of forgetting rules and civic order and start acting more like animals and adapting some animal traits(152-153). The point is after spending a while without adults the boys start to turn into savages and the civic order and rules they had at the beginning starts to fall apart. In the evidence it’s saying how the boys are starting to act and turn into savages by adapting animal traits
Even though Ralph accredit jobs for his tribe, no one would listen to him. The littluns would avoid him, and the biguns wouldn’t mind him; they would talk about serious thoughts but do very little. Jack, rather, was hunting for pigs. He was becoming more viscous every time he went hunting; Conversely, he was trying to tell Ralph that they had no meat, but, nothing was as important to Ralph as the shelters. (chapter 3 page 51).
These boys are forced to fend for themselves and learn what is right and wrong on their own. Unfortunately, these boys suffer a difference of opinions and begin to drift
Lastly, Jack is known as the rebel of the story who disagrees with the leaders, and is pure evil from middle to end. Although Jack is evil, his bad character trait ensures his survival and alliance with the boys. The first example of when Jack’s evilness is shown in the story is when Jack hunts the pig and puts its head on a stick, the line says “ Jack held the head up and jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick which pierced through into the mouth. He stood back and the head hung there, a little blood dribbling down the stick” ( Golding, 150). This shows Jack’s evilness because instead of fearing the beast he is offering him the head of the pig that he just brutally murdered.
Everyone will face evil at some point in their lives, but the way the evil is embraced or deflected will differ among every man. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, symbolism is used to communicate the theme of Understanding the Inhumanity/Inherent Evil of Man as represented through the double ended spear, the fire, and the Lord of the Flies. The spear represents the evil inside of humankind and the perception that killing and hurting each other out of anger is acceptable. Fire symbolizes the evil act of stealing to achieve a human wants. Lastly, the Lord of the Flies symbolizes the Inherent Evil of Man through demonstrating that a boy understood that the evil is within them instead of around them, and is not something that could be killed
Near the end of the novel a group of the boys begin to hunt Ralph, the only reason the boys do not kill Ralph is because as they are going to murder him they are rescued. The only thing that could stop the boys’ savagery is the reminder that they came from a world where this kind of behavior is not socially accepted and that reminder had to come from an
The complex idea that is shown with my mask is loss of innocence. Loss of innocence is shown in Lord of the Flies especially when the boys kill Simon, the only truly innocent one on the island. His whole time on the island, he knew that the other boys were the beast, the savage ones. He always knew that their innocence was lost. Another way loss of innocence is shown in Lord of the Flies is that as the boys were being rescued, Ralph cried for the first time and he cried for “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
As we can see from Lord of the Flies by William Golding, we can infer that it is hard to maintain individuality whilst among a group of people. The only way one can keep their individuality while in a group is if they have self-esteem. Having self-esteem and voicing an opinion is one way to keep individuality. The boys forgot about their character and personality because fear and savagery took over. Their will to hunt blinded them from what was actually happen which was them losing their individuality.