The Rules In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

Rules are the fundamental structures of society that prevent anarchy and discord. However, the rules only work if the people that they are trying to protect believes in them. When the people stop believing in the structures of society, we are calling for the end of the reign of order and the start of the tyranny of chaos.

Laws and regulations have been around our world for many centuries. From the first ancient Egyptian laws to the Declaration of Human rights, laws have kept equality and impartiality regardless of money, fame, power, or identity. When the foundation of our society is undermined, we plummet back to a period of humanity where we roam the Earth and we murdered everything we saw for survival. This is especially true on an island

After all, we’re not savage.” When Jack responds to Ralph, Jack is directly contradicting the statement he said when the children were first making the rules, which was, “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong—we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat—!.” Previously, Jack wanted to have more rules because he could manipulate the rules and control with an iron fist, while forcing the rest of the children to follow the rules. Now, he wants to abolish the rules so he could forward his own agenda of being the leader of the children by trying to assert himself as the “be all, end all ruler.” Without actually knowing it, Jack understands all the rules are superficial, and the removal of those rules will allow him to have the unregulated totalitarian control he seeks. Furthermore, children usually view rules as burdens and obstacles, in this survival of the fittest, Jack will take advantage of the situation and make an offer to the children: Jack or death. By writing this situation into the book, Golding is trying to warn the reader; the abolition of rules will lead to the downfall of society. The beginning of the descending spiral of violence started with Jack ignoring the rules and causing the previously tightly wound coil of order to start unraveling. In the end, the descent that Jack started ended with the fire on the island, Piggy falling off the cliff, and ultimately the death of innocence. Golding is using this story as an allegory of the real world, to explain the corruption of politics and business in the real world (which I will be expanding on in the third