Innocence In Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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The power that makes the loss in innocence also occurs in the writings. “‘You got your small fire all right.’ (…) the boys were falling still and silent, feeling the beginnings of awe at the power set free below them. (44)” In The Lord of the Flies, children put the fire in half of the island. Since there are no adults to punish them, they feel the awe at the power that have set them free and that causes the loss in innocence. “Ralph, camed away by a sudden thick excitement, grabbed Eric’s spear and jabbed at Robert with it (114).” Ralph was the leader and he was civilized. Indeed, he was innocent as well as the boys on the island. However, they turned savage when they don’t have adults to control them. “However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick (103).” Simon is one of the most innocent boy in this book. …show more content…

The quote tells that even Simon is losing his innocence not by feeling the desire of power, but by feeling and noticing that the real beast is actually in them. “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy (202).” At the end, all the boys noticed their loss of innocence and cries for it. Losing innocence made them cause violence, and the violence called the murder.The philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, states that people are unequal in ability, but the inequality only matters for the corrupted civilized man. In the story, the children are corrupting the civilization. Destroying the civilization meant the loss of innocence. The poem, ‘To a Mouse’ also shows the loss of

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