'Lord Of The Flies' By William Golding
Lord of the Flies Essay
In the dystopian novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding the main theme is to show how easy it is to lose connection with the civilization and become a savage. The boys gradually give up their internal civilization to a complete savagery, which reveals itself through the novel’s major characters.
The boys turn out to be on a desert island and they need to find the way to survive there until they will be rescued. They start their way to the rescue pretty good. Ralph takes over the leadership and his first priority is the rescue mission. “Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood” (Golding 41). Ralph finds the way that might help all of them to get rescued. A signal fire. Luckelly to everyone Piggy is the only one who has the glasses so Ralph is now able to create a fire so the passing ship can see the smoke and rescue the boys. This shows that the boys still loyal to the civilization and it seems like nothing can go wrong. But it did. …show more content…
Jack leads the boys to the hunting mission. Without the back thought he also takes the twins who are assigned to watch the fire and make sure that it will not burn out. “Jack rushed toward the twins. ‘The rest are making a line. Come on!’ ‘ But -’ ‘- we -’ ‘Come on! I’ll creep up and stab -’” (Golding 64). Now Jack is getting closer to becoming a savage. He wants to hunt pigs and he thinks that this is what should be their first priority. But it is not. If he would not bother the twins to go to the hunting mission with him, they all might have been rescued from this desert island. Jack is slowly starting to lose his connection with the civilization. Now he is really close to becoming a savage because he no longer cares about anything but hunting and
In the dystopian novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding the main theme is to show how easy it is to lose connection with the civilization and become a savage. The boys gradually give up their internal civilization to a complete savagery, which reveals itself through the novel’s major characters.
The boys turn out to be on a desert island and they need to find the way to survive there until they will be rescued. They start their way to the rescue pretty good. Ralph takes over the leadership and his first priority is the rescue mission. “Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood” (Golding 41). Ralph finds the way that might help all of them to get rescued. A signal fire. Luckelly to everyone Piggy is the only one who has the glasses so Ralph is now able to create a fire so the passing ship can see the smoke and rescue the boys. This shows that the boys still loyal to the civilization and it seems like nothing can go wrong. But it did. …show more content…
Jack leads the boys to the hunting mission. Without the back thought he also takes the twins who are assigned to watch the fire and make sure that it will not burn out. “Jack rushed toward the twins. ‘The rest are making a line. Come on!’ ‘ But -’ ‘- we -’ ‘Come on! I’ll creep up and stab -’” (Golding 64). Now Jack is getting closer to becoming a savage. He wants to hunt pigs and he thinks that this is what should be their first priority. But it is not. If he would not bother the twins to go to the hunting mission with him, they all might have been rescued from this desert island. Jack is slowly starting to lose his connection with the civilization. Now he is really close to becoming a savage because he no longer cares about anything but hunting and