Lord Of The Flies Civilization Vs Savagery

“Lord Of The Flies” by William Golding is an exhilarating novel that encompasses many aspects of life. This book is about a group of British boys that are left stranded on an inhabited island, without any grownups, the schoolboys have to adapt to the surrounding environment and take matters into their own hands. Ralph the protagonist and Jack the antagonist are the two major characters in this book that try and lead the group of boys in the way they believe is correct, even if it results with violence. Ralph's civilization and Jack’s savages lead to the destruction of the community in three stages, Ralph trying to unite the boys by rules and orders, Jack manipulating everyone through the acknowledgement of the beast and then Jack overpowering

This conflict gets underway when the beast is introduced, and the beast comes to symbolize savagery, terror and violence. When the littluns in chapter 2 cry out they spotted some “snake-like” thing in the trees, Ralph and the others begin to believe in it. Ralph's control over the group of boys diminish as Jack starts to become overwhelmingly selfish. According to chapter six, it points out “Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh,” This is indicating the savagery instincts that all the boys start to inhabit when they were hunting a boar and dancing around nearly killing Robert. This relates back to Jack because he was instructing them to dance “Jack shouted ‘make a ring’,” (chapter 6). Even here Ralph’s lack of seriousness and matureness is visible when he himself joins in. While Jack is the one leading and ordering the people. Later on in the novel, Jack leaves the civilization out of anger and selfishness and invites anyone to join him. In chapter 8 it states “Im not going to be a part of Ralphs lot—…anyone who wants to hunt when i do can come too.” This is significant because civilization starts to be fragmented at this point when many bigluns join Jack. Jack gathers his group and declares himself as the chief. Jack whose feeding off power goes hunting with

In chapter 10, Robert spoke “‘He’s going to beat Wilfred.’ ‘What for?’ … ‘I don’t know.’” This is consequential, mainly to the fact that the savages idolize Jack to the extent that they would beat people under no justification. Civilization is almost entirely lost at this period, even though Jack is the main chief now, Ralph still tries to get rescued. According to Chapter 10 Ralph announced “Two to mind the fire,” this addressed that he was still trying to control the fragmented civilization. The basic concepts of civilization is completely lost when Piggy gets killed. Piggy was one of the major keys of civilization, he symbolized clever thinkers and scholars in a society. Once he was murdered in chapter 11, the oversight of civilization was abandoned. Also when the conch was destroyed by Roger, this symbolized the crushed humanity in the civilization.With Ralph and the littluns as the only ones not in the Jack’s tribe, Jack may of thought to get rid of Ralph due to the fact that he could still have grudges against him. Jack admired power, revenge and the savagery that came with it. Samneric muttered to Ralph “‘They’re going to hunt you tomorrow’… ‘chief, says it’ll be dangerous’” This pondered the concept that even when Samneric were forced to become part of the tribe, they still