Savagery Vs Civilization

“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand him a sword and put him in a war situation, then the savage beast inside the man becomes visible.” In the allegorical novel Lord of the Flies, a group of preteen boys are stranded on an isolated island, where they are faced with the task of survival. Golding uses pristine island in which the boys portray their inner selves. As the novel progresses, William Golding explores the causes, effects, and the long discussed subject of savagery versus civilization. The group of boys are obliged to find a way to survive until they are rescued, in which they are faced with the challenge of making realistic decision. As the novel advances, the characters begin to show their various personalities,

When Piggy is killed by Roger, Jack uses this incident as his advantage in the development of the fear and to generate his power. Jack establishes fear in everyone by stating that “there isn’t a tribe anymore” and that “the conch is gone.” Jack reveals that “[he] is the chief” and everyone must follow his order (Golding 181). Jack enforcement of such a terror, and Golding’s diction reveals the evil human inside Jack. Jack declares himself as a chief, and his word choice shows his anger and how he wants to break the rules that were previously set and make his own rules using fear. The decision that he makes are of his choice. Anger, which is a poor quality to have as an individual, is present throughout the book in Jack. Golding presents that anger can cause you to make inadequate decision through Jack’s behavior. Jack is so full of anger that he is unable to recognize the difference between good and bad which is the reason why he repeatedly uses different tactics, especially fear, to carry out his decisions. Jack consistently attempts to form a fear in everyone by screaming that “[if anyone goes against him] that is what [they will] get” (Golding 181). Jack states that there will be consequences, such as death, for the people who goes against him. Jack wants to conquer each person since he was not chosen as a chief in the beginning, so now he is

This realistic novel opens many doors of mankind and what it is capable of. Jack is the evil side of civilization which is hidden but once that evilness rises when confronted with the choice between civilization and savagery by the isolation of moral values an society, Jack choose to forget the values of the civilization and becomes the beast that everyone fears. This shows that people choose savagery over civilization as projected by Jack. Jack illustrates a very big picture that savagery is not cramped to certain people in certain situation but is present in every