Lord Of The Flies Power
The Power of Men and Gods We often think of cultural values as regularly changing and shifting with the times. What may have played a key role in shaping the lives, beliefs and behaviors of our grandparents could seem completely irrelevant now. However, literature tells us that some cultural values have remained constant dating from biblical times to present day. Throughout the works of the epic poem “The Aeneid”, the biblical texts “1st Kings”, “1st Samuel”, and “2nd Samuel”, the novel “God Knows”, and the book “Lord of the Flies” we see people given (or taking) power- power to rule others, power to run a land, power to steal a wife, and the power to impose their own rules. We see the focus of society on men being superior to women, at
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The society has the same as we do today but these were just children and they were alone on an island with no adults. At first they try to stay civilized with a good leader who emphasized law and order,such as the government does today, but the boys quickly turned into savages by adapting to what young children usually value. They valued to what they thought would keep them alive on the island. The boys chose to follow the strongest and most courageous boy who would keep them safe from “the beast” of the island. At first the traits these boys respected was leadership, morality, and order, but as fear set in these children valued the strong boys who would keep them safe. Although the valued traits changed, the ones that were dishonored remained the same and were expressed through Piggy. He was described as weak, quiet, and emotional. In patriarchal societies these characteristics are most often associated with women but in “Lord of The Flies” the patriarchy is better expressed through a paradox in this novel- the boys in Jack’s village hunted the only female thing on the island which was a pig. The boys found pleasure in killing and penetrating the sow with their spears. The pig or sow is female and piggy is the nickname of the boy who would be described as feminine in a patriarchal society. When the beast became a real threat to the boys they went to Jack- the strongest warrior. He came to power by manipulating the younger boys to fear the beast that he himself knew was probably pretend. William
The society has the same as we do today but these were just children and they were alone on an island with no adults. At first they try to stay civilized with a good leader who emphasized law and order,such as the government does today, but the boys quickly turned into savages by adapting to what young children usually value. They valued to what they thought would keep them alive on the island. The boys chose to follow the strongest and most courageous boy who would keep them safe from “the beast” of the island. At first the traits these boys respected was leadership, morality, and order, but as fear set in these children valued the strong boys who would keep them safe. Although the valued traits changed, the ones that were dishonored remained the same and were expressed through Piggy. He was described as weak, quiet, and emotional. In patriarchal societies these characteristics are most often associated with women but in “Lord of The Flies” the patriarchy is better expressed through a paradox in this novel- the boys in Jack’s village hunted the only female thing on the island which was a pig. The boys found pleasure in killing and penetrating the sow with their spears. The pig or sow is female and piggy is the nickname of the boy who would be described as feminine in a patriarchal society. When the beast became a real threat to the boys they went to Jack- the strongest warrior. He came to power by manipulating the younger boys to fear the beast that he himself knew was probably pretend. William