Savagery Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis
What makes a person savage? Is it some primal instinct we have? Is it a lack of order? In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of preteens are dumped on an island due to a plane crash and try to build a civilization of their own, needless to say the results are less than positive. The author uses conflict, character development, mood, allegory, point of view and setting to support the theme that Without society's rigid rules, anarchy and savagery can come to light. Conflict is used throughout the novel as a way of developing the savagery vs order theme. At the start of the novel the boys have a conch that serves as a sort of constitution to the group. One of the boys Jack Merridew starts off about what the group should do, “We'll
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When Ralph and Piggy were at Jacks feast he was described as having a throne; “Jack rose from the log that was his throne” The word choice helps to build on the mood. Like this is Jacks throne which makes him king of all those in his domain. Mood is also used to express the power of the conch when Ralph first blows the conch how the birds are described as flying away and scattering and screams from the underbrush. The same idea applies when the tribe was chasing Ralph, he wasn't running away because they were playing tag. They were trying to kill Ralph and the author didn't have to blatantly write it out, the mood of that scene wrote out a whole series of events ready to unfold. The author also used point of view as a tool for developing the theme. Although not used until later in the story (some exceptions apply). Point of view puts a story into perspective, best seen at the end when the sailors find the boys stranded on the island the tribe disappears “A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands.” In that scene and in that moment the reason the theme evolved as it did was exposed. They're a bunch of kids who tried to create a society, they just can't do it and in the end the author puts the whole island and conflict into
When Ralph and Piggy were at Jacks feast he was described as having a throne; “Jack rose from the log that was his throne” The word choice helps to build on the mood. Like this is Jacks throne which makes him king of all those in his domain. Mood is also used to express the power of the conch when Ralph first blows the conch how the birds are described as flying away and scattering and screams from the underbrush. The same idea applies when the tribe was chasing Ralph, he wasn't running away because they were playing tag. They were trying to kill Ralph and the author didn't have to blatantly write it out, the mood of that scene wrote out a whole series of events ready to unfold. The author also used point of view as a tool for developing the theme. Although not used until later in the story (some exceptions apply). Point of view puts a story into perspective, best seen at the end when the sailors find the boys stranded on the island the tribe disappears “A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands.” In that scene and in that moment the reason the theme evolved as it did was exposed. They're a bunch of kids who tried to create a society, they just can't do it and in the end the author puts the whole island and conflict into