Isolation In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Similar to William Golding’s lord of the flies. In June of 1965, six boys- Stephan, Sione, Kolo, David, Mano, and Luke drifted onto an uninhabited island. Unlike the boys in the book, these real-life version boys learned to work together. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies acknowledges that polarization of isolation causes people’s necessities to go unfulfilled, as seen through motif, foreshadowing, and juxtaposition.
To elaborate on motif, there is a chant that keeps repeating among the group of little boys “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Golding 152). In this excerpt from the book the boys chant leads up to Simon a side characters death. This was because the boys believed they were killing a beast that they had thought was real. This demonstrates how the boys' polarization and isolation prohibited them from realizing how improper their actions were. To conclude what is happening, none of the adolescent boys or even lesser kids, including the nearby younger boys, or even themselves grasped that what they were doing was wholly improper.

He insulted Piggy by addressing him as “Fatty! (Golding 71)”. Jack then furthers his intimidation by hitting Piggy upside the head which lead the boy to yell “My Specs!” (Golding 71). Jack's fundamental needs were not being met, which led to this behavioral outburst. Maslow, a theorist, stated in describing his hierarchy of necessities that when certain needs are not met, people begin to shift. In this case with the boys on the island none of their basic needs were met, some less met than others. On top of that this event foreshadows Jacks future