Laws In Lord Of The Flies

Imagine the world without laws. Everyone can do what they want, and they do not have to worry about consequences. On the other hand, everyone would also lose their morals and do anything they can to survive. The idea of laws has been around since King Hammurabi created the first set of laws in 1760 B.C. Egyptian civilizations created laws so that their society would last longer than other civilizations. Goulding had a theory that every human being has an internal beast in them and has since the beginning of time. Nevertheless, we have grown away from theories such as ‘Survival of the Fittest’ and have created morals and laws that protect the rights of every human. Without morals and laws, society will turn into chaos just like it did towards

This helps the society be more controlled and organized. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, the author named the children “littluns”, which was a sign that these children still had some morals in them, and that they were not on the island too long. As the author nears the end of the book, he begins to call them all one thing: savages. On page 192, as things were getting crazy and the fire begins to start, the narrator says, “The savage, whoever he was, ululated twice; and the cry was repeated in both directions, then died away.” At the beginning, when everyone was more civilized, they were mentioned in the book by their names or by “littlun” or “biggun”. But towards the end when the fire broke out, which could be seen as a representation of the devil walking the earth, they were all called savages except Ralph and Roger. This symbolizes that they lost their civilization and that is the main reason why their society crumbled. It was not just about the idea that the author changed what he called the children, but he also described through various parts of the book the “devil” that was rising in all of them at one point. On page 37, Ralph was shouting at a child who had thought that the beast was real and he said, “Something he had not known was there rose in him and compelled him to make the point, loudly and again.” Since this was towards the

On the island, the kids with more power, like Roger, were being rude because they knew they could get away with it since there were no consequences. On Page 67 the narrator says, “Henry and Johnny were throwing sand at Percival, who was crying quietly again; and all three were in complete ignorance of the excitement.” The book also explained how there were no adults on the island. Imagine a group of kids in a room when an adult is not there. They are more prone to do things they knew they could not get away with if the adult was there. That is how these kids feel, so they are getting more comfortable doing bad things knowing there is no consequence afterward. That is not the only thing they did, there were multiple other scenes when they would torment each other and get a feeling of pride afterward. On page 60, Roger came out of the forest going for a swim. The narrator says, “Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones.” Roger knew he could not do that to someone such as Ralph because, if he did, he knew he could not have gotten away with that because Ralph would have done something about it. Roger wanted to chose someone that was more vulnerable like the