Beastie Lord Of The Flies Analysis

Riots in the streets, people looting stores left and right, complete chaos. Could this be true human nature, with a sophisticated society being only an illusion we trick ourselves with? In William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies Main characters Jack and Ralph fight for power of the island they crash landed on with Jack representing complete savagery and Ralph representing well-mannered individuals. the boys and their followings get along in the beginning, but as time progresses Jack becomes increasingly more and more savage. Golding created the character of Jack to represent what human nature truly is; Complete savagery. Savagery such as this is depicted many times throughout the novel including how Jack responds to the situation with the “beastie”,

The “Beastie” was a manifest of the true beast in all of them as they slowly became obsessed with hunting down the beast with, without realizing that they themselves are becoming the beast. They even go so far as to run around yelling almost satanic-like chants such as “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!” . The boys become increasingly violent when it comes to the beast, even disregarding rules that their little society has created “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong—we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat—!”. Jack has become completely obsessed with hunting and killing to the point that he completely disregards the rules of their society, and even becomes so blinded by his savagery that he and his following don’t think straight. During a later point in the story during a feast that the boys were having, an older boy named Simon came out of the woods to tell them some valuable information he had gathered. Instead of being welcomed to the feast, the boys instantly thought that he had to have been the beast. Upon realizing that Simon “was the beast” the boys pounced on him and clawed him to death with their bare hands and teeth. Just to think that the killing of Simon happened because they thought he was this “beast”. Even Ralph and

The conch was the final representation of society, and with its destruction it shows the final transformation from a well-mannered group of boys into a group of savages. The conch shell was found by Ralph and Piggy in the first chapter of the book and was instantly used as a horn to call an “assembly”. Ever since the conch was used the first time it was always a vital role in the book, bringing together the boys in many situations Up until the very end of the book the conch shell serves as a glue for their civilization, being a vital part not only in calling all of the boys’ meetings, but also during them with it acting as a “hot seat” where if whoever had the conch shell was the one doing the talking. Despite all of this the conch was still destroyed by a member of Jack’s following,Roger. Roger had been very sadistic during the entire book, and this was at the peak of savagery in the book. “See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you any more! The conch is gone—” . With the conch being destroyed the boys’ ties to civilization are completely gone revealing the truth that Golding attempted to communicate in his book; True human nature is