Lord of the Flies Critical Analysis

In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Golding illustrates some different stands. One of the fores he demonstrates is being a agency from a civilise society causes a person to become barbaric. Through appear the novel the strife is demonstrated between motherfucker and Ralph who represent savagery vs. civilization. The ways Golding demonstrates this theme is how the boys language changes through and through proscribed the story. in addition the way their behavior changes, and how they lose their identities through out the novel.One-way William Golding demonstrates the theme is by the change of language. The story is establish upon a group of British boys who argon stranded on a deserted island. They are altogether brought up to be proper dissertation young adults. Throughout the story the boys have reverted back to a fluid way of speaking. They applyt speak in complete sentences and they dont use proper English. as well as the way that William Golding talks some the boys has changed throughout the novel. He calls them savages and demoniac figures. .. savage raised his hand.. (pg. 148). Demoniac figures with faces of black-and-blue and red and green rushed out howling, so that the littluns fled screaming. William Golding now classifies them as savages because of their behaviors. Another way that Golding illustrates the theme is by the actions the boys acquire. Jack and his group, the choir boys, know hunting. So in the story they attempt to kill a sow. at a time they do they re-enact the hunt. They saw Robert, a young boy who is stranded on the island, as the pig.They acted as if they were hunting the pig by jabbing Robert with sticks. Jack and his group also beat the other boys up. Jack and his boys tie up Wilfred, another young boy who is stranded on the island, and beat him up. Also Simon, a boy who is a Christ-like figure in the novel, tries telling all of the other boys stranded on the island that there is no beast. The boys m istaken Simon as the beast and kill him. And Roger, a boy who is in Jacks group, pushed a boulder down a hill and the boulder killed Piggy. centre the stick at both ends says Jack. He first said this when he wanted to kill the sow he then(prenominal) says this again when he wants to kill Ralph. Jack and his boys set fire to the island trying to kill Ralph. Claire Rosenfield states, the news report follows the childrens gradual return to the amorality of childhood, a non-innocence which makes them small savages. Rosenfield is saying that children throughout the narrative turn into savages and become uncivilized.Comptons by Britannica says, The story portrays a group of school boys isolated on a coral island who bit by bit abandon all moral constraints and revert to savagery, including ritualistic murder. Which means that the boys deliver into savages and dont follow morals. severally time they re-enact the same event, stock-still there behavior becomes more frenzied, more cr uel, less like dramatization or imitation than identification. A third way that the author portrays the theme of this novel is how the boys lose their identities.They use to all have their own identities then they formed groups. Sam and Eric, these twins, became samneric. All of the little boys became littluns, and all of the older boys became bigguns. Also how the boys paint their faces. They paint their faces red, white and green to in a way change who they are. When they put the paint on they act as if theyre in camouflage. Also when they have the paint on their faces they act as more barbaric. The boys throughout the story lose who they really are. They have no adult supervision or guidance to guide them in the do-gooder aspects.So they lose sight of whom they really are through out the course of time. Lastly, William Golding personifies the theme of this novel by needing rules and law to remain civilized. Each time the boys re-enact the same event it gets more cruel and evil . The story shows that laws and rulesare necessary to keep the darker side of human nature in course of instruction says W. Meitcke. Meitcke is saying that you need to have laws and rules to keep people in crinkle and civil. If you dont have any guidelines people get out of hand and become savages who dont follow moral behavior.