Violence In Lord Of The Flies

In today's world, there are many conflicts that infringe in our daily lives. For example, Donald Trump becoming president, terrorist groups fighting against countries, or constantly having conflict between countries certain point of view. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, was a classic novel and still is. It portrays conflict throughout the whole story. It’s about British boys who crashes on an island in the Pacific Ocean during a world war. The kids have to make a civilization to adapt to the island. They have to work together and not fight. However, this is not the case. The kids have conflicts and the island becomes very violent due to savagery. Savagery and Violence create a huge conflict and affects the island when the two different
Firstly, Roger creates conflict and shows the first sign of violence. He first started out by throwing rocks, but purposefully missed (62). However, later on in the story, he threw a huge boulder at Piggy and caused his death (181). This shows that the island had a conflict due to violence because it caused so much death. It causes both deaths of Piggy and Simon and it affect the island’s shape in so many ways. Secondly, Roger is a weird type. He is very shy and it didn’t seem he has anything wrong with him physically and mentally. But, he did. He was exceedingly violent and didn’t like Ralph because he was civilized and wanted the island to be civil. He wanted to sharpen sticks at both ends just for Ralph (190). This shows that Roger created the violence and conflict because he basically was preparing to kill Ralph and to put his head on one end of the stick. This is violent because not a lot of 11-12 year old would think of doing that to a person who is helpful and civilized, or just in general. Finally, Ralph knew that there was a lot of violence and it was difficult to manage it. Everyone was against him besides SamnEric. Ralph constantly hid in bushes and in trees to hide himself from everyone. He also had to tell himself, don’t scream, he’ll get back alive, and not to agonize due to the fact that he knew everyone was up against him (199). This shows that the violence on the island created conflict and affected the island dramatically because Ralph had to prepare for any violence from the savage tribe that was coming his way. When they actually saw him, he had to reinforce himself and be prepared for what could potentially happen. The conflict from this continued to make constriction with violence until the naval officer arrived