Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Lord of the Flies is an extremely violent and jaw dropping story. Without describing the entire story, this book teaches its readers about how savage and beastly humanity really is. By using violent events and circumstances, the story further pulls the lesson together about how humanity has a secret beast inside.
Lord of the Flies starts to show a minor but necessary blood lust in the beginning, which is violent but isn’t unprovoked because the group still needs food/supplies “‘I cut the pig’s throat,’ said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it. ‘Can I borrow yours, Ralph, to make a nick in the hilt’“ (Golding 73). At this point the story uses violence to show how desperate the children are for food and other supplies. How there’s

Cut his throat! Spill his pig! Do him in!’“ (Golding 168). Before this, a huge party had taken place which started to cause a large momentum of emotions to shape and build. By using this very fierce statement, Jack sends the place into a complete meltdown. Causing the children, who are in fierce emotion, to immediately come upon the “Beast”. By this moment in the story, the children are hunting without reason. With no need for a constant search of food, the youth now hunt and kill animals for no reason. This is the beginning of the book’s reveal of a “larger lesson” about how humanity has a secret beast within. With no restrictions on hunting, as soon as the group sees the unknown beast move behind the fire, they immediately begin to fall into hunt and kill

That humanity and all humans have a secret or internal beast within. That we are all evil inside and life is just a journey to controlling this “Beast within”. With each example of violent events and occurrences Lord of the Flies uses it as evidence to support the main lesson. It is also used in chronological order, this is to further the story while also showing how long it takes for a society-less group of children to fall under the control of their monsters. Comparing the first violent statement to one of the last violent events; the reader can see how the author uses each savage event for a specific reason. The first statement was to show how desperate the children were for food and supplies. Presenting how far they would go to stay alive and healthy. Continuing to the later pages of the book, the author shows that now the group is hunting and killing for fun: seeing it as a game more than survival of the fittest. When they kill the child who they thought of as the beast, the book’s climax reaches its tipping point. Now the youths will even kill one of their own because they thought it was the “beast”. Not realizing that they now had an internal blood lust for hunting and killing. Golding uses this climax of violent outbursts/events to show how bloodthirsty and cruel humans can really