Lord of the FliesEssay title: Lord of the FliesThe Lord of the Flies is about a mini-society of boys formed by chance. Their isolation from adults forced reality upon them and so they had to think for themselves and work together. As a commentary of todays society it does well to explain some of todays issues like violence, laws, pride, greed, fear, religious power and the conflict between living in a civilised society or savagery.
It is all about the choice the boys made when life became real. In the beginning their lives were controlled and protected by their parents, teachers and police officers. Jack cannot kill the pig even though he can eat meat because of the “enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh.” (p 41). Roger cannot hit the boys with the stones even though he could if he wanted to because he has been conditioned by the society he used to live in. This is the type of society the children
live in. Everything is a game until the beast. The beast signals the end of the games and start of reality. Lives are at stake in perspective of the boys and survival must occur in any form. Our society is much like this as todays society is also about survival and what choices we make to survive.
The mini-society started off peaceful. The purpose was to set a signal fire and live off fruit until help came. The conflict came when the fire and hunting could not be committed to at the same time. As the fire was a 24 hour task and hunting needed the whole party, the party started to take sides. Ralphs fire would be the sensible thing to do to get rescued however hunting would lift the standard of living for all the
boys and would also be a luxury, recreational event. The fire was hard work and immediate results were none even though long-term results would be better. The hunting side wins eventually. In Australia today we are spending beyond our ability to afford this spending. This means we have a great influx of goods and services but as a community we are cheating ourselves as this leads to a current account deficit and the cost of living in this deficit must be paid plus the deficit. In this books case, the deficit was their morals and the interest was paid in life.
The conch was the symbol of power and it represented the order in the beginning of the book. It brought them together and provided laws for the society. The main law being whoever holds it has the right to speak without interjection or disrespect while he was speaking. It is much like a policemans badge or even the mace in our parliament.
However, the beast held a greater power over the conch which was fear. It is used by Jack to gain power over the rest of the group. His promises and rallies to kill
the beast eased the fear of the boys and hence he won over the group. The killing of Simon as the beast but saying the beast was still alive, showed Jack had used the beast to keep his power as leader of the tribe. In a way, it became a religion as Jacks ritual of killing pigs for their heads to keep the beast happy. This was his method of promoting hunting. Other examples of this in real society are the Vikings whose promise of Valhalla made them among the best warriors of all time in the world. In todays society, religions can give power and money to many people. Fear of gods or protection from all fears in society can make person donate to a religious unit material goods or loyalty. Even traditional religions like Catholicism can allow the leaders to lead a life of
Fantasy/Fantasy (3:4)
Fantasy/Fantasy (5:21)
>The main subject, the main battle for the group of brothers, was not between the man who was king and the woman who had been born to a different god than him. All the things were just a matter of the person’s ability to see through and read his own thinking or perceptions. If one who is well versed in these skills could be good or bad at a skill or whatnot, one would not feel sorry for him after having done such a terrible war
No one in the group was ever wrong about these things. They just had different beliefs at the time. However, there was always some belief in a certain belief, whether that was at home, at work, in school, whatever, so there was always a certain “right” one side of the room thought of that belief.
The group saw nothing in their own internal battle, not really understanding, but they were quite okay with this kind of thing, they thought. They had no idea how well it would work after all, because only he could do that! Of course, at the time he was still learning how to fight, he was still figuring things out. His father was always in charge, so no one knew what was going on. We only talked at a lot of times, and he wanted to learn the fight. He did not get along better with the others.
The brother who was at the peak of his powers was a man with some really long legs, and would just hold his breath, and his eyes would start to twitch. If some kid could do that, what would they do? Well, it was just one of those things.
He was so strong that he couldn’t stand down with his eyes closed, no matter how much they touched him, and that’s usually how he would kill them. Most of the attacks that he was doing were so clumsy that they didn’t help him and just turned into bullets. His arms were wrapped around those legs and even carried his whole body in his arms and was just so strong that they didn’t even let him get down, even after a single hit. He was just one of them, so he didn’t have any problems at all.
He couldn’t have done that at such a young age, so his mother couldn’t care for him even as she sat with him in his room. It was only by showing love
Fantasy/Fantasy (3:4)
Fantasy/Fantasy (5:21)
>The main subject, the main battle for the group of brothers, was not between the man who was king and the woman who had been born to a different god than him. All the things were just a matter of the person’s ability to see through and read his own thinking or perceptions. If one who is well versed in these skills could be good or bad at a skill or whatnot, one would not feel sorry for him after having done such a terrible war
No one in the group was ever wrong about these things. They just had different beliefs at the time. However, there was always some belief in a certain belief, whether that was at home, at work, in school, whatever, so there was always a certain “right” one side of the room thought of that belief.
The group saw nothing in their own internal battle, not really understanding, but they were quite okay with this kind of thing, they thought. They had no idea how well it would work after all, because only he could do that! Of course, at the time he was still learning how to fight, he was still figuring things out. His father was always in charge, so no one knew what was going on. We only talked at a lot of times, and he wanted to learn the fight. He did not get along better with the others.
The brother who was at the peak of his powers was a man with some really long legs, and would just hold his breath, and his eyes would start to twitch. If some kid could do that, what would they do? Well, it was just one of those things.
He was so strong that he couldn’t stand down with his eyes closed, no matter how much they touched him, and that’s usually how he would kill them. Most of the attacks that he was doing were so clumsy that they didn’t help him and just turned into bullets. His arms were wrapped around those legs and even carried his whole body in his arms and was just so strong that they didn’t even let him get down, even after a single hit. He was just one of them, so he didn’t have any problems at all.
He couldn’t have done that at such a young age, so his mother couldn’t care for him even as she sat with him in his room. It was only by showing love