Lord of the FliesLord of the FliesLord of the FliesAlthough problems in everyday life are normal, they can get out of control at times. Therefore, without society in life, chaos is destined to occur. For example in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the boys divide into two groups; the civilized and the savages, leading to serious drama and chaotic behaviors. Because of their loss of their loss of society, Piggy and Simon are brutally murdered. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding illustrates that society is needed in order for people to survive.
Arrival to the island Ralph and Piggy find each other with hopes to form a society. They know there are more boys on the island and want to find them. Piggy finds a shell, “…It’s a shell…A conch he called it. He used to blow it…”(Golding 33). They decided to use it to summon the other stranded boys. It was also used later to allow an individual of the group to speak with no interruptions. When Piggy introduced the conch to the other boys, Jack Merridew told him to shut up and called him fatty, “He’s not fatty…his real name’s Piggy”(Golding 21), Ralph replied. Ralph knew that all the boys would have to work together so they can last until they are rescued.
The stranded boys decided they would need a leader so they can survive while on the island. The election was between Ralph and Jack Merridew. With a couple of votes more than Jack, Ralph wins the position as leader, “…the society splits into two halves: the firewatchers and the choir turned hunters”(F. Dick 22). Ralph soon found that survival on the island would not be easy for any of the stranded boys.
Ralph decides to make some rules to keep things in order and keep everyone alive. He calls a meeting with the other boys, “when the meeting was over they’d work for five minutes, then wander off or go hunting”(Golding 51). “Their first aim is abide as much as possible…they have to adopt, by the standards of life that the civilized world of adults has infused them, and to wait for rescue”(Michot 2). The first rule was that at meetings, whoever is holding the conch shell has the right to speak. A few boys get an idea for quicker rescuing, “A fire! Make a fire”(Golding 38)! Ralph decides to build a signal fire on top of one of the mountains, so if a ship passes it will see the fire and know that someone is stranded. At first nothing they tried would start the fire they needed, then Jack got an idea involving Piggy who he continuously makes fun of, “His specs-use them as burning glasses”(Golding 40)! Jack then starts talking about food and wanting to hunt animals for meat, disregarding Ralph’s orders, “The group splits into two groups; the hunters deviate further…from the standards of civilized life that the other group strains to preserve”(Michot 2). Jack then tells the other boys that he saw a pig that was stuck in the woods leaving Ralph, Piggy and few boys alone while the rest go hunting wildly.
Ralph comes up with the thought to have the boys get organized into pairs to watch the fire and make sure it does not go out, “The fire…is the symbol of their hope for rescue, of their attachment to civilization, for it will reveal their presence on the island to the outside world”(Michot 3). The first time the fire remains unattended when Jack forgets about it and prefers to go hunting instead. As some of the younger boys gradually join Jack’s tribe, it becomes much more difficult to keep the fire going, “ The boys in charge of the hunting have become so intent on killing that they no longer understand that the aim of hunting was originally to provide the community with food”(Michot 2). Ralph realizes that the society he once created is quickly deteriorating and becoming chaos.
”A number of changes—from an increase of the number of children on the island, to those on the island no sooner have they arrived than are becoming an integral part of the community and the tribe has been replaced by a large cohort of young men and women.
[Note: In other language, ‘tribes were also named for some of the animals that lived with the natives: cows were from cows that were in great demand as pets, and sheep were from sheep that were in great demand as a food source’.]
The people on the island have moved off of the traditional diet—only a few people, including some of the old people, are being fed. [Note: A number of changes, such as the changing use of animals on the territory of the Island, were also made by the people in order to keep them away from it from its effects on the island.
It is likely that many of the change in the people on the island have been a result of their relationship with the mainland, but it is difficult to know how it could have been prevented.][Note: Many changes, such as the changing use of animals on the territory of the Island, were also made by the people in order to keep them away from its effects on the island.Another shift in the island’s culture was made by the introduction of food to both the food sources and animals. According to one source and a second person close to the island, food from these sources had a tremendous effect on life. It could not have been tolerated and could not have been safely consumed from food sources.]
The inhabitants of the Island of Innocence live off of the food that was made available to them and are not known to them as living people. It has been widely known that the human race has been hunted and killed for their food by humans, but the lack of any sense that they were a part of the civilized past led the island’s people to change their ways. [Note: According to the original source, ‘the people on the island in general became more and more interested in the food available to them as a means of survival, because they wanted a long life without a death who could provide for them, and the lack in social position for anyone to be a part of such a community was such that it could not be tolerated.’]
”The humans seem to not be very religious or comfortable with any change in people’s culture. However, the people on the island appear to have maintained their personal beliefs for a period despite the changes in culture. Their belief in freedom of thought, as well as the power of reason, led them to change their social structure and customs to promote a sense of social harmony. [Note: A number of changes, such as the introduction of food to both the food sources and animals. According to one source and a second person close to the island, food from these sources had a tremendous effect on life. It could not have been tolerated and could not have been safely consumed from food sources.]
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”A number of changes—from an increase of the number of children on the island, to those on the island no sooner have they arrived than are becoming an integral part of the community and the tribe has been replaced by a large cohort of young men and women.
[Note: In other language, ‘tribes were also named for some of the animals that lived with the natives: cows were from cows that were in great demand as pets, and sheep were from sheep that were in great demand as a food source’.]
The people on the island have moved off of the traditional diet—only a few people, including some of the old people, are being fed. [Note: A number of changes, such as the changing use of animals on the territory of the Island, were also made by the people in order to keep them away from it from its effects on the island.
It is likely that many of the change in the people on the island have been a result of their relationship with the mainland, but it is difficult to know how it could have been prevented.][Note: Many changes, such as the changing use of animals on the territory of the Island, were also made by the people in order to keep them away from its effects on the island.Another shift in the island’s culture was made by the introduction of food to both the food sources and animals. According to one source and a second person close to the island, food from these sources had a tremendous effect on life. It could not have been tolerated and could not have been safely consumed from food sources.]
The inhabitants of the Island of Innocence live off of the food that was made available to them and are not known to them as living people. It has been widely known that the human race has been hunted and killed for their food by humans, but the lack of any sense that they were a part of the civilized past led the island’s people to change their ways. [Note: According to the original source, ‘the people on the island in general became more and more interested in the food available to them as a means of survival, because they wanted a long life without a death who could provide for them, and the lack in social position for anyone to be a part of such a community was such that it could not be tolerated.’]
”The humans seem to not be very religious or comfortable with any change in people’s culture. However, the people on the island appear to have maintained their personal beliefs for a period despite the changes in culture. Their belief in freedom of thought, as well as the power of reason, led them to change their social structure and customs to promote a sense of social harmony. [Note: A number of changes, such as the introduction of food to both the food sources and animals. According to one source and a second person close to the island, food from these sources had a tremendous effect on life. It could not have been tolerated and could not have been safely consumed from food sources.]
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With no order on the island, the boys must defend for themselves to survive. In the woods, one of the boys, Simon finds a pig head that is impaled on a stake and is covered in flies, “The hunters deification of the Pig’s head which becomes the Lord of the Flies himself, and the horror of their rituals stress the fact that the children have fallen into a state of savagery in which evil is all powerful…”(Michot 2). The head seems to come to life and speaks to Simon telling him that he is the beast, which represented the evil in the boys leading to less likely of survival.
Simon is climbing up a hill when he sees the dead pilot the hunters mistaken for the beast. “Simon now holds the clue” that there is no beast, but that the evil is within the children