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A 3 page essay that analyzes the principal theme from William Golding's Lord of the Flies, which is the tension between savagery and civilized behavior, as the novel depicts how a group of boys react to have no restrictions or adult supervision. The writer draws analogies between this situation and implications for society in general. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Golding said that it was World War II and its tales of horror that inspired him to write a novel that showed "what one man could to another...the vileness beyond
all words that went on, year after year, in totalitarian states" (Feeney 7). As this suggests, Golding saw his novel as sending message that goes beyond simply what happens to
a group of boys. Lord of the Flies can be viewed as an allegory that shows the "disintegration of society due to a tragic flaw in human nature" (Fitzgerald and
Kayser 78). While a group of boys survive the plane crash that strands them on a tropical island, there are no surviving adults. For children, the primary form
of authority and societal order is adult supervision. The adult equivalent of this situation would be if suddenly there were no governments, no police, no laws, no courts, nothing to
restrict the way that adults behave. As this indicates, the main question that Goldings book explores is how the boys react to suddenly having no restrictions. Ralph becomes the leader
of one group of boys, while Jack leads the boys who are charged with hunting. Ralph tries to maintain order, but Jack quickly becomes savage. One of the boys in
Ralphs group is Simon, who is sensitive and spiritual in nature. At one point in the novel, Simon hallucinates and images that the grotesque pigs head that Jacks hunters
have stuck on a stick and called the "lord of the flies," speaks to him, saying, "You knew, didnt you? Im part of you?...Im the reason why its no go?
Why things are what they are?" (Golding 128). At that moment, Simon realizes that mythical beast that Jack has taught them to fear is very real but it lives not
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