Savagery In Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Body paragraph 1: In the novel, the author uses “face paint” as a symbol to represent savagery which lies deep within every human being. At first, the masks were used as camouflage for hunting. Jack originally comes up with the idea, “"For hunting. Like in the war. You know-- dazzle paint. Like things trying to look like something else" ( Golding 63). Later on, Jack goes to realize that the paint has more to it. Jack realizes later on that the masks free him from his inhibition, empowering him to act bolder, violently and fiercer.As the days go by, when Jack leaves Ralph’s group and goes on to form his own tribe, he begins to wear face paint to show his power. Jack also ties up and beats a boy named Wilfred and then warns the boys against

In reality there is no beast, the only evil there is is the evil within them. When Simon realizes there is no “beast” he goes back to the boys to end the "beast" talk once and for all by seeing for himself. When Simon gets near the boys a thunderstorm comes up. “The hunters were looking uneasily at the sky, flinching from the stroke of drops. The littluns began to run about, screaming”(Golding 151) As the boys on the beach start to get frightened, Jack leaps on the sand and tells them to do their dance. “Do our dance! Come on! Dance!”(Golding 151). As the boys are all in a circle doing a mock pig fight, Simon comes crawling out of the forest.In the darkness, with the lightning flashing and the rain pouring, the frenzied boys imagine Simon is the beast. While Simon was trying to tell them about the dead man on the hill the boys start attacking him imagining him as the beast. “The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore(Golding 153). They all pile on him and tear him with their "teeth and claws." Nevertheless, this is yet another way Golding symbolises that there is a savage whim lying deep within every human