Genocide In Lord Of The Flies Essay

Real World Genocide The book Lord of the Flies contains a number of subliminal meanings. One of those is how without authority figures how quickly society can fall apart and people can turn into barbaric beasts. In 1994 in the African country of Rwanda, where the Hutu tribe senselessly murdered almost 1,000,000 Tutsi men, women, and children. Just as Lord of the Flies shows how society can quickly break down and people can turn into savages, the Rwandan Genocide is a prime example of society breaking down in the real world.
A major theme in the book of Lord of the Flies is loss of innocence. The boys on the island quickly turn from innocent school boys to island savages. They begin to kill for sport and bully weaker members of the group. In 1994 the African tribe, the Hutus, began senselessly murdering Tutsi people and their families. The Hutu soldiers
Unfortunately, it can also lead people to do terrible things. Our fear of failure can motivate us to do great things, however we fear what we do not know and that can lead us to do things that we later regret and allow it to manipulate us. In Rwanda Hutu leaders were able to manipulate their people to believe that the Tutsis were the cause of their economic depression, famine, and that they were a threat to the Hutu’s way of life. In Lord of the Flies fear is a major theme and how fear impacts our choices. In the book Simon says " 'Maybe there is a beast....maybe it 's only us. '" (Golding 80) This quote clearly identifies how the boys begin to live on the island not just in fear of the dangerous animals or what their futures might hold, but also now they are living in fear of each other. Later in the book there is a scene where simon comes running down the beach at night and out of fear the other boys slaughter him believing that he was the beast. Likewise, in Rwanda, many people were killed because of fear of the unknown and ignorance of the Hutu