Essay On Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding proves that man is born evil and society has trained people to be civilized, but our savage nature is still their. There was a group of boys from Great Britain that crashed on an island and this book shows how the boys not only survived, but also their transition from being civilized to being savages. William Golding shows order in the beginning, a half way point where there is still order, but the boys are starting to get aggressive, and what the boys full aggression leads to.

In the beginning of the book after the boys crashed on the island, the boys were reasonably civilized. Once the boys found each other, Ralph said,“‘Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things’ ...The dark boy, Roger, stirred at last and spoke up. ‘Let’s have a vote’”(22). Beforehand, Ralph had blown a conch to gather all of the boys together to see how many of them were on the island, “Piggy insisted. ‘How many of us are there?’ Ralph came forward and stood by Piggy. ‘I don’t know’”(15). To have votes and call everyone together to figure out their situation represents the boys being

Since Ralph was the only representation of society, or getting rescued left, Jack and his group of boys had to hunt Ralph down and kill him. Because of this, Ralph hid himself in some creepers, and the only way the boys could get to him was to burn the creepers. When the boys burned the creeper, it created a huge fire that a ship saw and came onto the island, thus rescuing the boys before they were able to kill Ralph. William Golding believes that man is born evil, but society has influenced people to be civilized. Even though the savage part of us is always there the civilized part has taken over when we are in a civilized society. Therefore, the longer amount of time that you are away from the influences of a civilized society, the more your savage nature starts to take