Survival Instinct In Lord Of The Flies

In literature and movies there is a survival instinct seen in humans, monsters, and vampires. What does survival instinct mean? It means, “The instinct in humans and animals to do things in a dangerous situation that will prevent them from dying” (collinsdictionary.com). According to Charles W. Bryant the author of Are Humans Wired To Survive he states, “When humans are faced with danger or stress, a biological trigger helps us decide whether to stay or fight or get the heck out of there” (website, 4/26/16). In Dracula, the human survival instinct is for the vampire to be immortal. In Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, the survival instinct is for the monster in his body to survive and the human to survive. In Lord Of The Flies the humans must work together

to survive on an island. In the Maze Runner, the humans must also work together, to beat the monsters and try to get out the maze and survive the world outside of the maze.
In Dracula the survival instinct is for the vampire to stay immortal. This quote “Dracula drinks blood in order to survive, he is at the same time performing sexual intimacy to reproduce more vampires for the survival of his race” (Sobrino P.1). The quote means that Dracula has to survive by drinking blood and he mostly like to have girls as his prey so he can do sexual intimacy to make more of his kind so his species will survive longer. The survival instinct is for the vampires to stay immortal because a wooden stake through their heart can only kill them. “Dracula does indeed eat since he feeds on the blood of human because he is one of the un-dead, a vampire, but most importantly, he prefers to feed on the blood of a woman.”(Sobrino P.2) this quote means that he drinks blood as his food source but he prefers women to feed on. There is a human survival in this book because all the humans tried to get away from Dracula they try to kill Dracula by using sunlight, garlic and sunlight. These quotes explain what I think the survival instinct is in Dracula.
In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the survival instinct is for the monster in his body to survive and Dr. Jekyll to survive. They survive by using each other’s intelligence. in this quote it explains how he isn’t only one man, but he is two. “with every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two” (Stevenson)(42-43). “Hyde is Jekyll’s dark side, released from the bonds of conscience and loosed into the world by a mysterious potion” (Spark notes, 5/3/16). Dr. Jekyll tries experiments to bring Hyde out by using a potion and then when he is Hyde he uses the potion again to go back to being Jekyll. Through Hyde, Jekyll can do anything without any responsibilities. They use one another to survive because people do not know that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same person. The survival instinct is to keep his good and bad side alive by using the potion to transform back and forth to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde then they ran out and eventually they both died.
In Lord Of The Flies, the group of kids must work together to survive on an island.

The survival instinct in the book was survival of the fittest they must do anything they can do to survive. They all elected a leader, which was Ralph and they use the conch shell to make orders when they need to and the conch symbolizes government and power, piggy and Ralph respect the conch. "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" (Golding, 42). This quote mean that having rules are necessary in order to survive on this island. Without rules they would be uncivilized and the boy will face their evil side and just be rebellious. Ralph was focused on building huts and surviving until they get rescued. Piggy is beside Ralph to keep him focused on getting rescued so he doesn’t start putting his focus on the beast. Piggy orders thing on the island everyone has a job to do. Piggy’s glasses tell us something about him, according to Dana Linde “piggy’s glasses represent intelligence and the sense of safety for piggy.” (Linde 5/3/16) Jack on the other hand, he wanted power over the boys and he did not care about survival and wanted to just have fun on the island. Every one plans for survival and being rescued fails and they just start to turn on each other it all leads to murder. This is the human survival in lord of the

flies.
In the Maze Runner, the humans must also work together, to beat the monsters and try to get out the maze and survive the world outside of the maze. There are teenagers that got put in a maze and they have been stuck in there for a while until Thomas got put in the maze, he helped everyone that wanted to get out of the maze by telling everyone not to give up. Thomas really wants to be a runner so he can be able to explore the maze with the other runners. When Thomas is finally a runner, he and Minho team up and go explore the maze together, they are trapped, in the maze and the monsters come out during the night so they try to hide. The next morning, they run out the maze and one of the monsters was following them, but the maze closed back up and crushed the monster and they found something in it and that thing was a key to find a way out of the maze. After that day they gather everyone up that wants to leave the maze and they try to survive together until they get out of the maze there were many obstacles they cross getting out of there. The survival instinct in maze runner is to get out alive.
To conclude, in literature and movies there are different survival instinct seen in humans, monsters, and vampires. Vampires staying alive and keeping their species going is the survival instinct in Dracula. Survival instinct in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is having his good and bad side of him to stay alive. In Lord Of The Flies, the survival instinct is to do anything you have to do in order to survive. In the Maze Runner, the survival instinct is keeping everyone safe and alive, so the teens can survive together when they all get out of the maze.