How does Jack Used the Beast to Control the Other Boys? 906 By Clement Chuah Introduction Lord of the flies is a allegorical novel written by William Golding set around the World War II period. This book tells the story about a group of English boys who were forced to survive on an island after their plane left a "scar" on the island. The book shows how the children live on the island and how they change into savagery as they begin to lose their innocence and their minds. Body Most readers would consider this book an allegorical novel because of the symbols that most things in the story represents. Most of these symbols are complicated and different compared to other books. The conch shell for example represents civilisation and order. When …show more content…
piggy and Ralph find the conch, they see it as a way to govern the other boys. Whoever holds the conch has the power to speak and the rest must listen. When it was shattered, the civilisation and order turn into savagery. Piggy and his glasses represents intelligence.
Piggy is the most intellectual boy in the group. His glasses can also represent power. The boys use the glasses to make a signal fire. The fire is to help the boys get rescued. At the start of the book, the fire is big showing how much the boys want to get rescued. Further in the book, the fire starts to die out showing the boys lost desire of being rescued. When piggy's glasses were stolen, Ralph's group was helpless showing how much power the glasses has. Ralph is a main protagonist in the story. He is elected leader and tries to create a civilisation on the island while they wait to be rescued. He represents civilisation, order and leadership. Jack is the considered the opposite to Ralph, Jack mostly symbolises savagery and the desire of power. He is more dictator like unlike Ralph who is more democratic. Simon can represent goodness and is very neutral. The society that the boys create can resemble a political state. The littluns and the rest of the boys will be considered the public, media or the common …show more content…
people. After a while on the island, the "littluns"(younger children) start making stories about a "beast" living on the island and eventually making the group fall apart.
The beast plays a big roll in the story. Most of the boys on the island was afraid of the beast but after Jack, Ralph and roger saw the Trooper, all of the boys believed in the beast except for Simon. He believes the beast is within all of them. The more savage they turn, the more they believe in the beast. Jack also put a pig's head on a stake as an offering to the beast. The more they believe in the beast, the more real the beast is. When Simons explores the island, he discovers the pig's head also known as the lord of the flies. This is known to be the most difficult allegorical part in the novel. When Simon meets the head, he begins to talk to it. The head can be symbolised death or satan as well as the power of evil. When the head talks to Simon, the head foreshadows simon's death telling Simon their going to have "fun on the island." Near the end of the book, Jack discovers a way to manipulate the boy's fear of the beast to control
them. Even from the start of the book, Jack always wanted to be the "chief" of the group. In the middle of the book, Jack also tried to overthrow Ralph's democratic power and ends up spitting from the group. In the end, Jack decides to use the "beast" to gain power. In his new tribe, Jack slowly manages to convince the "littluns" that he and his hunters can provide protection from the "beast" along with food and fun. He uses the beast to convince the "littluns" to join his tribe. Using the beast, he can practically make the "littluns" do anything. In the end, Jack was going mad with power and ends up killing Simon and piggy. This can be a reminder of how power can be created by religions and superstitions. Conclusion Bibliography http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/lord-of-the-flies/~/link.aspx?_id=DD83750B6A8C4239A361B46472288697&_z=z http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/canalysis.html#Jack http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/characters.html http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/themes.html Golding.W, 1954. Lord of the Flies. London,UK: Faber and Faber.
Lord of the Flies was written by a British author in 1954. The book is about a group of British school boys that crash on an island and have to survive. During their time on the island they turn their backs on being civil and become savages. Ralph is the elected leader and always thinks civil. Jack leaves the group and starts a tribe with the boys and is a savage. Piggy is a boy who is knowable. Simon is compared to Jesus through the book and is the only naturally “good” character. The littleuns are the littler kids on the island. Roger is a cruel older boy who is Jack’s lieutenant. Samneric are twins who are close to Ralph but, are manipulated by Jack later on. In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding some of the characters represent id, ego, and superego. Id, ego, and super ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus expressed by Sigmund Freud’s structural model of the psyche. Golding expresses his message of evil and how it is natural in every person, and how we must recognize and control it through id, ego, and superego.
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Simon and Piggy are among a group of boys who become stranded on a deserted island. Left without any adults, the boys attempt to create an orderly society. However, as the novel progresses, the boys struggle to sustain civility. Slowly, Jack and his hunters begin to lose sight of being rescued and start to act more savagely, especially as fears about a beast on the island spread. As the conflict progresses, Jack and Ralph battle for power. The boys’ struggle with the physical obstacles of the island leads them to face a new unexpected challenge: human nature. One of the boys, Simon, soon discovers that the “beast” appears not to be something physical, but a flaw within all humans
The book Lord of the Flies was William Golding’s first novel he had published, and also his one that is the most well known. It follows the story of a group of British schoolboys whose plane, supposedly carrying them somewhere safe to live during the vaguely mentioned war going on, crashes on the shore of a deserted island. They try to attempt to cope with their situation and govern themselves while they wait to be rescued, but they instead regress to primal instincts and the manner and mentality of humanity’s earliest societies.
Lord of the Flies, a book written by William Golding, published by Faber and Faber and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is a story that talks about a group of school age boys who have landed on an unknown / uninhabited island during the second world war. Throughout their stay on the island they find ways to survive, such as finding and hunting for food as well as building basic needs like shelters and a fire. At a certain moment in the book two of the main characters, Ralph and Jack declare a war between each other because Jack refuses to have Ralph as the group’s leader for another second. This then leads to the division of the group as well as many scenes in which one sabotages the other. An example of this is when Jack’s tribe steals
Ralph was elected shortly after their arrival to the island, but his time in power came to end quite gradually. He tried to run his group through a democratic type system in which all major decision were first discussed at an assembly before they were put into action. At these assemblies his views were questioned not only by Jack, but by the other boys as well. Even the ideas that the assembly could agree on usually weren't pu...
The story, Lord of the Flies is mainly about good and evil on an island between a group of young boys aging from approximately six to twelve. The story is full of meanings, which involve certain characters.
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is tale of a group of young boys who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Intertwined in this classic novel are many themes, most that relate to the inherent evil that exists in all human beings and the malicious nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the boys' gradual transformation from being civilized, well-mannered people to savage, ritualistic beasts.
On contrary from all the other boys on the island Simon, a Christ like figure in the novel, did not fear the ‘beastie’ or the unknown. “Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us” Simon explained. (p. 97) The fear of the unknown in the novel contributes to the boys’ terror of the beast, the beast is an imaginary figure which lays in all of the boys’ minds and haunts them. Golding uses the beast as a symbol of the evil that exists in every creature. "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are the way they are?" The sow head announced to Simon to be the “lord of the flies”. The “lord of the flies” is a figure of the devil, and brings out all the evil and fear in people. It wants you to fear it, but if you don’t believe in the “lord of the flies” nothing can happen to you. Therefore Simon didn’t fall into the trap, but the beast killed him, meaning the other boys on the island did. Simon discovered that the beast is in fact just a dead parachute man before he died and ran down to tell the boys about his finding. When Sim...
Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding in 1954 about a group of young British boys who have been stranded alone together on an island with no adults. During the novel the diverse group of boys struggle to create structure within a society that they constructed by themselves. Golding uses many unique literary devices including characterization, imagery, symbolism and many more. The three main characters, Ralph, Piggy, and Jack are each representative of the three main literary devices, ethos, logos, and pathos. Beyond the characterization the novel stands out because of Golding’s dramatic use of objective symbolism, throughout the novel he uses symbols like the conch, fire, and Piggy’s glasses to represent how power has evolved and to show how civilized or uncivilized the boys are acting. It is almost inarguable that the entire novel is one big allegory in itself, the way that Golding portrays the development of savagery among the boys is a clear representation of how society was changing during the time the novel was published. Golding is writing during
Furthermore, Simon’s gifted power of true inner visionary to look beneath the souls is revealed, “..Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick” (112). As the boys continue to indignantly quarrel and give the beast a form and figure, Simon visualizes the beast in man himself. Thus, he loses his former innocence when he realizes the ‘darker’ side of mankind, which the boys named as the beast and understands that evil is inherent in all humans. Furthermore, his eyes represent mystical wisdom and knowledge as well as magnifying lenses to see clear pictures of the obnoxious happenings such as, “The tangle of the lines showed him the mechanics of this parody; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colours of corruption” (162). Out of all the boys present, he is the only one who receives the opportunity to see the true illusion of the beast, adding more comprehension to his understanding of the beast that the more the bitter acts of violence are committed, the more the beast will come alive on the island. This also shows his ‘superego’ personality, consisting of a fully developed mind of social and parental values. With these values, he understands the difference between the right and wrong; savage and civility and is also both naturally good willed and civilized. His identity of a keen observer appears when he comprehends that on the surface, the island is extremely peaceful and calming, but the inside is where the roots of brutality grow which slyly evoke the inner savage present in all humans. Moreover, Simon’s character also has a touch of spirituality which is revealed when he hallucinates his conversation with the Lord of the Flies, where Lord of the Flies is symbolized as the devil and Simon as Jesus. He also has a
Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding, took place on an isolated tropical island. There were many symbolic items within the story, and their meanings changed as the story developed. The fire was the symbol of hope and civilization at the beginning of the novel, but at the end it had become a fire of destruction. Ralph, in the beginning of the book, stood for leadership and almost perfection, however as the story progresses, he was nothing more than a normal human. The beast, upon its first appearance, symbolized fear, but soon, it represented the savagery within them. The different symbolic figures within the book, such as the fire, Ralph, and the beast, shifted in meaning as the story develops.
One of the most important and most obvious symbols in Lord of the Flies is the object that gives the novel its name, the pig's head. Golding's description of the slaughtered animal's head on a spear is very graphic and even frightening. The pig's head is depicted as "dim-eyed, grinning faintly, blood blackening between the teeth," and the "obscene thing" is covered with a "black blob of flies" that "tickled under his nostrils" (William Golding, Lord of the Flies, New York, Putnam Publishing Group, 1954, p. 137, 138). As a result of this detailed, striking image, the reader becomes aware of the great evil and darkness represented by the Lord of the Flies, and when Simon begins to converse with the seemingly inanimate, devil-like object, the source of that wickedness is revealed. Even though the conversation may be entirely a hallucination, Simon learns that the beast, which has long since frightened the other boys on the island, is not an external force. In fact, the head of the slain pig tells him, "Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill! Ö You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?" (p. 143). That is to say, the evil, epitomized by the pig's head, that is causing the boys' island society to decline is that which is inherently present within man. At the end of this scene, the immense evil represented by this powerful symbol can once again be seen as Simon faints after looking into the wide mouth of the pig and seeing "blackness within, a blackness that spread" (p. 144).
In conclusion, this whole novel is based on good versus evil. The symbolism in the novel helps to portray that as much as possible, with the conch and Ralph, Piggy, and Simon representing the “good,” and the sow’s head and Jack and his hunters representing the “evil.” One of the main themes of The Lord of the Flies is man’s inhumanity to man. It is also compared to the book of Genesis in the Bible. This novel deals with all the corruption in the world, and no matter whom you are, while reading it, you can always relate it to real life situations.
In the early stages in the book, Simon mentions that the beast is perhaps, the boys. When the boys were questioning the beast’s existence, Simon states, “What I mean is...maybe it’s only us.” The boys laugh at his idea, however, Simon’s proposal is indeed correct about the boys and foreshadows the escalation to the loss of civilization, although, Simon doesn’t have the entire puzzle solved. It shows that the evil in human nature can slowly evolve when put in that situation. Simon later understands the root of the boys’ fear and sees the dead pilot, when he encounters the Lord of The Flies, which is his sub consciousness. While Simon was delivering the pig’s head to the beast, “in [his] right temple, a pulse began to beat on the brain.” This is where Simon’s sub consciousness awakens. He starts to have a conversation with “The Lord of the Flies”. The Lord of the Flies starts the conversation by calling him a, “Silly little boy. Just an ignorant, silly little boy” because he thinks that Simon and the boys can’t take on the beast, which is the boy’s untamable savagery. He then warns Simon that he shouldn’t tell the boys because he would be laughed at again (because he’s “batty”) or something bad will happen to him, which foreshadows his death. This conversation symbolizes Simon’s realization about the root of the boy’s fear and the savages they are
Immanuel Kant was a moral philosopher. His theory, better known as deontological theory, holds that intent, reason, rationality, and good will are motivating factors in the ethical decision making process. The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain major elements of his theory, its essential points, how it is used in the decision making process, and how it intersects with the teams values.