Lord of the flies
Lord of the Flies: Loss of Innocence
As we age we lose the thrill of imagination, the value of it. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding this very much happens when pre-teen boys crash on an island. The longer they stay on the island less we see of them when the first crashed on the island. The boy’s actions and beliefs turn from innocence to corrupt. In the book there are many examples of innocence to corruption these are the examples of Jack, blank, and blank. Jack was the boy who showed the most extreme change from of innocence to corruption.
This quote shows how he was the first few days on the island “Then the piglet tore loose of the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. They were looking at each other and the place of terror” (31). Jack is timid to kill the first pig they’ve seen. This shows how when the boys first got on the island, they couldn’t do anything savage like. They were still the innocent little kids who don’t know what to do by themselves. Later in the book Jacks approach to death and doing it with his bare hands, “The boys drew back, and Jack stood up, holding out his hands… Look.” (69). Jack actually has blood on his hands and well kind of plays with it. In the first quote he couldn’t even think of killing a pig, now he killed a mom pig and basically finds it entrainment. The book indicates that it takes place in the midst of an unspecified nuclear war. Some of the marooned characters are ordinary students, while others arrive as a musical choir under an established leader. Most (with the exception of the choirboys) appear never to have encountered one another before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves in a paradisiacal country, far from modern civilisation, the well-educated children regress to a primitive state.
At an allegorical level, the central theme is the conflicting human impulses toward civilization—living by rules, peacefully and in harmony—and toward the will to power.
As we age we lose the thrill of imagination, the value of it. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding this very much happens when pre-teen boys crash on an island. The longer they stay on the island less we see of them when the first crashed on the island. The boy’s actions and beliefs turn from innocence to corrupt. In the book there are many examples of innocence to corruption these are the examples of Jack, blank, and blank. Jack was the boy who showed the most extreme change from of innocence to corruption.
This quote shows how he was the first few days on the island “Then the piglet tore loose of the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. They were looking at each other and the place of terror” (31). Jack is timid to kill the first pig they’ve seen. This shows how when the boys first got on the island, they couldn’t do anything savage like. They were still the innocent little kids who don’t know what to do by themselves. Later in the book Jacks approach to death and doing it with his bare hands, “The boys drew back, and Jack stood up, holding out his hands… Look.” (69). Jack actually has blood on his hands and well kind of plays with it. In the first quote he couldn’t even think of killing a pig, now he killed a mom pig and basically finds it entrainment. The book indicates that it takes place in the midst of an unspecified nuclear war. Some of the marooned characters are ordinary students, while others arrive as a musical choir under an established leader. Most (with the exception of the choirboys) appear never to have encountered one another before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves in a paradisiacal country, far from modern civilisation, the well-educated children regress to a primitive state.
At an allegorical level, the central theme is the conflicting human impulses toward civilization—living by rules, peacefully and in harmony—and toward the will to power.