Lord Of The Flies Quotes

Lord of the flies

-Key quote(INTRODUCTION)
"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything." from the novel, ‘Lord of the flies’. They have no rules or society to adjust them from wrong route. Lord of the flies cope with the boys during the war.

-Plot
During the War, a group of children are stranded alone after the plane crash in the ocean. With no adult survivors, they need to create take on the responsibilities of adults. The boy, Ralph tries to organise other kids by taking a role of chief. The rebellion, Jack neglects the camp and they lose the chance to be seen by plane. The kids split under the power of Ralph and Jack. While Ralph’s group want to build shelters and collect food, Jack’s tribe would rather have fun and hunt. Jack’s group starts to hunt pigs, stealing Ralph’s properties and even killing people, which illustrates the difference between civilization and savagery.

-Protagonist

The protagonist of this book, Ralph is located in between the area of good and evil.

He is described as handsome and physically strong boy. He is generous when he is talking to the boys. Not only does he have goodness in personality, but also has an evil side. He sometimes tease Piggy. Although Piggy does not want to be called by his nickname, ‘Piggy’, Ralph who is filled with laughter jumps up and calls him, “Piggy! Piggy!”. Knowing that Piggy does not like his nickname, he still insists on calling him Piggy, which shows that he is not that nice to people. Even though people think that the protagonist should be a good character, somewhat Ralph is between good and

evil.

-Context of author/story
The time of the book published and written is related to the evil nature of humans. In September 17th 1954, ‘Lord of the flies’ was published and it is 9 years after World War ll. Golding must be influenced by the fact that the war is a representation of how evil humans were, and wanted to reflect this idea in his book. We can tell that Golding is influenced by World War ll, because the characters in the book are very similar to the events and characters in the World War ll. The way Jack takes power is much more like Hitlers method. They both promised to supply food and make their people’s lives better. In Jack’s case, he was hunting for pigs for food. Because he offered people food, many boys are attracted to the Jack’s tribe. In addition, Jack blamed for problems on the island while Hitler blamed the Jews for the Germany’s problems. It seems that both needed a sacrifice to be offered to people to make them follow both leaders wanted.

-Theme of the novel
This novel contains various themes which are civilization, innocence, fear, power, rules and order. However, the theme of evil nature covers the whole book. In this novel, the boys are slowly possessed by the evil. Killing pig is when the evil takes over the boys. Also when they killed Simon, who represents innocence shows evil succeeds to take over the boys.

-Message
Golding’s wants to say that all human beings are capable of evil. Even though we are capable of evil, the law and rules keep us away from evil individually. The boys are stranded on an island without no adults, rules and society. Which evil gradually comes out in them.

-Opinion
if you are willing to understand the human nature in different perspectives, this book is great. It shows what happens when the society breaks down very well. This book is a very interesting book which created some provoking questions throughout the whole story. There is no great violence, but there is some violence. Lord of the Flies contains lots of hidden meanings throughout the book which Golding tries to imply.