Society In Lord Of The Flies

Over the course of human history, conflicts and clashes continuously end lives with no end goal or overarching purpose. The primary reason for these conflicts has consistently been clashes in society. It makes one wonder what aspect of society is so important that it is worth taking millions of lives to obtain. The perfect society has not yet been achieved and the fact that people are always fighting over what it should look like forces communities as a whole to analyze what makes a perfect society and how one can be attained. William Golding addresses the main conflicts of society in his famous novel, Lord of the Flies. In this novel, countless boys are stranded with no adults or authority when their plane crash lands onto an island in

This time the silence was complete” (181).After the death of Piggy, no one is providing reason in the storm of insanity and Ralph is almost killed by the rest of the boys. If the naval officer had not rescued the boys at the end of the novel, Ralph most likely would have been killed by the other boys. Ironically it was the fire the boys started to smoke Ralph out that lured the officer to the island. In society, intelligence is something that is few and far between, but incredibly resourceful in times of anguish. In their society, knowledge dies and with it the few sense they had left. Golding clearly uses Piggy to represent the intelligent side of society and shows that when knowledge dies, society will not function.In an idealized society, all would be equal and emotions like fear, anger, and jealousy would cease to exist. Realistically a society with no obstacles is impossible to establish because certain individuals will never trust the process of fairness. When there is no trust in society, people desire to take everything for themselves, as they do not expect society to give it to them. In Lord of the Flies, individuals like Jack who do not trust the framework of society end up destroying it because they take too much for themselves and leave everyone else upstream without a paddle. Idealism is built off of the assumption that everyone will perform their assigned tasks without conflict or complaint. When even one person wanders off the path, the entire foundation of the society will be broken as one wicked person is enough to turn everyone else evil. When Lord of the Flies begins, Jack is really the only evil person on the island. He slowly brings out the evil in people like Roger, then works