Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

The Savage inside us all, when certain situations are brought up the primitive human nature is unleashed. Aspects of human nature in the world alert us to our potential to descend from law and order to chaos, good to evil and civilization to savagery. The break down of civilization towards savagery dramatizes the struggle between the ruling element of society which include law, morality, culture and the chaotic element of humanity 's savage instincts which include anarchy, amorality, and a desire for power. Throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding explicitly articulates that circumstances creates decay in moral value, innocence of human being and deteriorates the democratic system. Ralph the leader is the symbols for morality and leadership,
When Jack painted his mask, he had liberated from shame and self consciousness. This is one of the major turning points for the alteration of Jack 's character is his relevance of the mask. Jack 's hiding behind the mask is a way for him to unleash his savage nature without feeling repentance. He also desires power from the beginning of the novel to the point when he declares himself the new leader. Jack persuades the boys to join him by using fear about the beast, and he does so until they all come to believe in its existence. After Jack diffuse this fear and belief in the boys ' minds, all aspects of civilization, culture and dissolve quickly. Absurdity emphasizes Jack 's bloodlust when he kills the sow and when he attempts to kill Ralph also. Jack hunts not with the sole intention to get meat, but he particularly enjoy exercising power over living creatures while hunting. Though it is not accomplished, Ralph 's potential murder also illustrates Jack 's ridiculous and savage nature. Jack is completely descended from good to evil in an atmosphere of chaos. On the opposite side Simon is the only boy on the island who really knows who the beast
He is really the only one on the island who realizes that the fear is innate and that there is no beast. What I mean is... maybe it 's only us. Simon 's delirious confrontation with the Lord of the Flies confirms his theory of evil being instinctive to man and actually within all of us There isn 't anyone to help you. Only me. And I 'm the beast... fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! ... You knew didn 't you? I 'm a part of you. These examples validates that savagery was always there in mankind but need a proper circumstance to come out. So when Simon climbs the mountain and sees the parachutist and comes back to tell everyone that there is no beast, the inner beast of the boys made them kill Simon thinking that it is the beast. As Jack had implanted that there is a beast in real into their brains. Even after Simons death Jack and his tribe did not stop hunting and did not think about the murder they did the night before. The inner beast led to the loss of religion, and turned Jack and his tribe into complete