Lord Of The Flies Conflict Analysis

The novel Lord of the Flies was published by William Golding In 1954. This book was about a plane carrying a group of British schoolboys that was shot down over the Pacific on a deserted tropical island. The boys survive the crash, but the pilot was dead. They find themselves on an island, where they are alone without any adult supervision. This novel includes many conflicts. A Conflict involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist, but there is more than one kind of conflict. The three main conflicts in this novel are man vs self, man vs nature and man vs man.

The first main important conflict is man vs.self, in the novel, Simon verses himself. Simon starts to talk to the Lord of the Flies in his

head, which is a pig that haves his head cut off with a bunch of flies around it. He tries to hold on to how he usually act, but the Lord of the Flies is trying to make him turn to his bad side by saying Simon is unwanted. “This has gone quite far enough. My poor, misguided child, do you think you know better than I do? There was a pause. I’m warning you. I’m going to get angry. D’you see? You’re not wanted. Understand? We are going to have to fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don’t try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else- Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was a blackness within, a blackness that spread.-Or else, said the Lord of the Flies, we shall do you? See? Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph. Do you. See? (Golding 144). After all, of this happened, Simon dies because Jack’s tribe kills him.
The second main important conflict is man vs. nature, Jack tries to a kill a pig when they first get on the island. Simon and Ralph and him went on an expedition to see the whole island, but Jack was supposed to kill a pig but something got to him and he couldn’t kill it.“ I was choosing a place, said Jack. I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him. …. They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (Golding 31). This causes Jack to feel worried, which makes him want to a kill a pig the next time he sees one or more than one.
Finally, the last main important conflict in Lord of the Flies is man vs man, Ralph and Jack both want to be the leader of the whole group.When being the leader you also have the conch, so without the conch you can’t speak until the leader gives it to you.

So they all decided to have a vote and Ralph won, but later on in the novel Jack doesn’t like the whole thing about Ralph being the leader or the rules. “ Jack!Jack! You haven’t got the conch! Let him speak., Jack’s face swam near him. And you shut up!Who are you, anyway? Sitting telling people what to do. You can’t hunt, you can’t sing- I’m chief. I was chosen. Why should choosing make any difference? Just giving orders that don’t make any sense...The rules! shouted Ralph. You are Breaking the rules! Who cares?” (Golding 91). It shows that in the novel there are problems always between Ralph and Jack about being the leader and it will always stay like that until they get

rescued.

In Conclusion, The Lord of the Flies have many, many conflicts during the whole novel.

There are more than one conflict for example, man vs man, man vs, nature, man vs society, man vs technology and man vs self. Most of these conflicts are in Lord of the Flies. Human impulse toward savagery is one of the main themes of this novel, which takes apart with all of the conflicts that are also

written.