Lord Of The Flies Quotes

What if you were to get stranded on a island? Would your personality change? Or would it stay the same? In the book Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, a group of British boys crash on an island, with no way out. They can be hopeful, but the situation is not looking good for them. They soon adapt, and learn the ways of the island. They find out how to make fires, and build shelters. Yet as the days go by, they quickly learn about a mysterious beast lurking nearby. Soon their natural instincts change. Golding suggests that violence is overwhelming because makes you act peculiarly different when you usually wouldn’t, as shown through the beast.
Jack was able to get his way and finally convince the group to go with him, and hunt the beast. They didn’t have a clue of what the beast looked like, but went anyways. “‘Supposing the beasts up there?’ Jack brandished his spear.’We’ll kill it’. The sun seemed a little cooler. He slashed with his spear”(Golding 116). This quote is clearly showing that they are prepared to kill if it came to it. They have now become wild animals that are capable of acting out viciously. As soon as they were to come face to face with the beast, they would do anything in their power to murder it, showing no mercy.

When they caught first glimpse of it, they immediately jumped on him and brutally tore him to pieces, “At once, the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beats, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements, but the tearing of teeth and claws”(Golding 153). All the boys joined in on this, and not a single one stopped to actually see that the beast was Simon. Everyone got over excited and violence just took hold of their bodies. The beast they had inside they made them hungry for killing, which controlled them to act barbaric and leave their civilized manners