Masks In Lord Of The Flies Research Paper

Painted Faces

Masks can be as old as 9,000 years old and they have many different uses. For example, they are used in religious ceremonies, rites, and other social gatherings. For Halloween, many Americans purchase masks or paint their face to be something abnormal. This is a way they can scare or be silly without someone else knowing who they are. Another holiday masks are used for is the day of the dead, where indigenous Mexicans paint their face in a skeleton pattern to symbolize the skeleton of their deceased loved ones. Native Americans paint their face as a ritual right before a battle. And Mexican wrestlers wear masks to hide their identity. All the different uses and symbols for masks can be impossible to name, but in Lord of the Flies a fictional novel By William Golding, the children paint their face to mask their identity, emotion, and growth on power and savagery.

A mask whether it faces paint, an actual mask, or even makeup can hide many things. Like, for example, it

When the Indians would help fight they were known as the noble savages, but when they would rebel they were known as bloodthirsty savages. Like the stereotype for Indians Jack and his group were called savages more and more throughout the book. When jack painted his face “He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.”(64). By painting their face the boys finalized that the indeed were savages. Throughout they started to lose the term boys and started to develop the term savages as soon as they painted their face. The face painting was supposed to be just for hunting as jack stated “ For hunting. Like in the war. You know - dazzle paint. Like things trying to look like something else.” Jack painted his face to hunt and camouflage with his surroundings so that the pig wouldn't see them but in the process of being a good hunter, he also dressed for the war that he would have with