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This 5 page report discusses Golding’s 1954 “Lord of the Flies” and its underlying themes of violence and fear. The story of the boys lost on a desert island serves as an allegory for the fundamental core of violence that is buried deep within every human. As the boys become increasingly polarized, the reader sees how far they have given over to the violence that is energizing them. No secondary sources listed in bibliography.
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use and abuse of power serve as one of the novels central themes. Jacks authoritarian power allows one person to rule by threatening and terrifying others. Spiritual power is presented
when the boys acknowledge the internal and external realities of their new world and intuitively attempt to integrate them. Brute force, the most primitive use of power, is indiscriminate.
Fear -- of nature, of one another, of death, of the unknown - is another important theme. However, the connecting thread that runs through all aspects of the story
is that of violence. Each of these factors is most certainly an all-too human component of the human "beast." The doomed Simon says that perhaps the beast is "only
us," (143) but the other boys only laugh at him. Simons words prove prophetic as the horror and violence of the story prove to be manifestations of the boys
own actions. However, the reader is somewhat prepared for the horror that are to be presented from the very first chapters of the book. "Something he had not
known was there rose in him and compelled him to make the point, loudly and again" (37). That "something" that arose in each of the boys was truly something
none of them knew was there . . . just as most "civilized" people have no idea of the violence that is hidden within their own placid demeanors.
Foreshadowing Violence Throughout the story, the boys (and the readers) experience a variety of emotional responses. Perhaps, one of the points Golding is making is that all
humans are governed by their emotional reactions to events they encounter or the circumstance in which they find themselves. Again, one could point to Ralphs sense of "something" rising
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