The mob mentality is a mindset that many people have in which one changes their views to fit the group they’re a part of. Having a mob mentality can be a dangerous mindset, so one should always be aware of how they are in the groups they’re in. The novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding demonstrates the concept of mob mentality and how dangerous it is for one to have. “Lord of the Flies” is a novel that takes place on a deserted island where a group of children are left to survive on their own due to a plane crash during a world war. Throughout the novel, the children undergo many tribulations that test their mental integrity, causing many of the children to go insane, leading to horrid events happening while the kids remain on the island. …show more content…
Throughout the novel, when the kids go hunting, they sometimes do a hunting ritual in which they repeat a chant and stand around in a circle. As the novel progresses and the kids begin to lose their sanity, these rituals become more and more intense and violent. This even leads to the boys killing another child as a result of these chants. After Ralph (the original leader of the kids on the island), and Jack (another person on the island with a lot of power) get into a dispute about who should be the island's leader, it begins to rain. Everyone but Ralph and his friend Piggy began chanting in a circle, as they typically do when hunting. This is when Golding narrates, “Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, find themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society.” Page. 152). The aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid This shows that it is bad to have a mob mentality because, originally, Ralph and Piggy were against the whole chanting ritual. After all, it made them feel like they were going savage. For example, in chapter 5, when Piggy begins to fear that the boys are becoming savage, he asks the boys, “What are we? Humans? What is the difference between human and human? Or a snare of animals? Or a savage savage? What are grownups going to think?”(Page). 92). …show more content…
On the first night of the festival’s opening, there was a massive crowd rush, where people were trampling others just to see rapper Travis Scott perform. These gigantic crowds, influenced by the rapper, were nearly impossible to stop; with over 50,000 people in attendance, security workers feared what was to come. Texts between security directors of the festival show that people knew that chaos would arise, “Pull tons over the rail unconscious. There’s panic in people’s eyes. This could get worse quickly,” (text from Reece Wheeler shown in an article by Billboard). This shows how having a mob mentality can be incredibly dangerous because getting this perspective on what was going on during the crowd rushes allows one to see how being in a mob like this puts others in danger. To restate, the mob mentality is when one changes their views to fit the group they are a part of. This festival is a prime example of this mindset because, logically, not everyone in the crowd of 50,000 people would naturally have violent intentions. However, Travis Scott’s aggressive and rowdy personality influenced many of the crowd members. This influence that Travis Scott has had has been demonstrated in the past, with him influencing riots at past shows, such as in his set in “Lollapalooza,” in which “he urged the crowd to jump the barricades into the security pit” (CBS News, “Travis Scott Had A Long
After being marooned on an unknown, uninhabited island and desperate to survive, the characters in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies are pushed to the limits of their humanity, and no one is safe from the atrocities from within, not even the seemingly innocent littluns. In an environment where civilization does not exist, the boys of the story attempt to form a society among themselves. Among the group of boys is a young boy who stands out from the rest. Jack Merridew, the leader of the choir boys, strives to take the role of leader of the boys, and he appears to be completely competent. In the beginning, Jack seems to be innocent and civilized. Jack is the cultured leader of the boys’ choir. Although the reader’s first impression of Jack Merridew may be one of an innocent leader eager to be rescued, his true, truculent nature manifests with the development of the novel, and the reader is gripped by Jack’s true schismatic, belligerent, and iconoclastic nature.
The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an exhilarating novel that is full of courage, bravery, and manhood. It is a book that constantly displays the clash between two platoons of savage juveniles mostly between Jack and Ralph who are the main characters of the book. The Kids become stranded on an island with no adults for miles. The youngsters bring their past knowledge from the civilized world to the Island and create a set of rules along with assigned jobs like building shelters or gathering more wood for the fire. As time went on and days past some of the kids including Jack started to veer off the rules path and begin doing there own thing. The transformation of Jack from temperately rebellious to exceptionally
How can groupthink lead to something as serious as murder? Groupthink is an occurrence that happens with a group of people where if many people are agreeing with something they don't wanna be the outcast and disagree. An experiment called the Asch experiment was done in 1951 at Swarthmore College. The experiment was a vision test and everyone knew except one knew what the experiment was. Everyone who was a part of the experiment would answer the wrong answer every time and then the last person who did not know what the experiment was would often answer the same even if it was incorrect. This is an example of Groupthink. In Lord of the Flies, many kids are stuck on an island due to a plane that crashed.
1961, Stanley Milgram conducts an experiment on participating adult males utilizing the power of authority and electric shocks to examine two common underlying principles in humanity: blind obedience to authority and the fear of the repercussions of contravening. Similar to the focus of this study, the dreading of consequences and trusting higher authority are the basis of the plot in The Lord of the Flies, where William Golding depicts a large group of boys (aged twelve and under) stranded on a desolate island that are left to configure their own law and order. The essence of this novel is clear; the blind trust of authority in societal situations, which will tarnish the conditions of a person’s life, and the
Lord of the Flies is an intriguing novel about a group of English boys who are stranded on a remote island during World War II after their plane was shot down. The schoolboys quickly use the resources they find and create a temporary form of order. As they continue to stay on the island, their proper English ways quickly turn into savage like instincts. In William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the conch, the Beast, leadership, murder, and fire to show that without rules there is chaos.
Have you ever experienced a group turning into a mob or people being influenced to join the mob? Everyone forcing each other and going against each other just ,because someone wants them to? The Twilight Zones, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” written by Rod Serling, and the book “The Wave” written by Todd Strasser, both are based around a group turning into a mob. In “The Wave” a school experiment goes wrong. After teacher Ben Ross decides he wants to recreate the Holocaust in his classroom, the project grows out of hand and in the end almost the whole school has turned to The Wave. However, this book relates ,because it shows how everyone is being pressured to join into this group. In The Twilight Zones, “The Monsters are Due on Maple
The psychology of evil is vital to understanding why Jack and Ralph progress through the story as they do. In Lord of the Flies, evil is an undoubted key to life on the island. The main characters in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies demonstrate Zimbardo’s “Seven Social Processes that Grease the Slippery Slope of Evil,” most notable mindlessly taking the first step, blind obedience to authority, and de-individualization of self.
At the beginning of Lord of the Flies, the boys create a democratic government. As the story progresses, the initial democracy on the island is ignored, and a dictatorship rises in its place. This dictatorship fails to keep the boys in order. The author, William Golding, shows that without the institution of a strong government and set of rules people will become impulsive and seek instant gratification. In the absence of order, people tend not to become disciplined of their own accord, but rather dissolve into destructive chaos.
When placed on a deserted island, a group of strangers banded together to try to survive. They decided on a leader, problem-solved, fought off a beast, and formed their own society, even if it was somewhat flawed. This was the situation in the famous TV show, Lost. The Lord of the Flies and Lost are similar in these many different ways, with the exception that the show featured a tribe of adults instead of children. That just proves how difficult it is to maintain order in a society; even the adults struggled with keeping it peaceful and civilized. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding presents a broken society of savage boys fighting one another to suggest that man’s capacity for evil is brought out by the need for power and control.
Have you ever witnessed or participated in an act of mob mentality? Many people without realizing it take part in a form of mob mentality, whether it is at a sporting event, concert, or even a protest or riot; these are all forms of mob mentality. The term “mob mentality” is usually something negative, where large groups of people deindivduate themselves. People lose control and are pressured to fit in with what the rest of the crowd is doing. In the book, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, mob mentality has a big impact on the plot. A Tale of Two Cities, shows how mob mentality ties in with history repeating itself, portraying manslaughter and homicide, and also depicting riots.
Macie Errante Mrs. Gillespie English II, 1st hour 12 April 2024 Mob Mentality Sometimes when people get together in a group, their minds are influenced by others in the group and they may end up doing things they will later regret. Lord of the Flies is about a group of British schoolboys whose plane crashed into an island with no other humans on it. The boys decide they need a chief and rules to survive on the island and try to get rescued. Eventually, some of the boys turn on the chief and start their own tribe, which causes violence on the island.
William Golding's first book, Lord of the Flies, is the story of a group of boys of different backgrounds who are marooned on an unknown island when their plane crashes. As the boys try to organize and formulate a plan to get rescued, they begin to separate and as a result of the dissension a band of savage tribal hunters is formed. Eventually the "stranded boys in Lord of the Flies almost entirely shake off civilized behavior: (Riley 1: 119). When the confusion finally leads to a manhunt [for Ralph], the reader realizes that despite the strong sense of British character and civility that has been instilled in the youth throughout their lives, the boys have backpedaled and shown the underlying savage side existent in all humans. "Golding senses that institutions and order imposed from without are temporary, but man's irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring" (Riley 1: 119). The novel shows the reader how easy it is to revert back to the evil nature inherent in man. If a group of well-conditioned school boys can ultimately wind up committing various extreme travesties, one can imagine what adults, leaders of society, are capable of doing under the pressures of trying to maintain world relations.
Mob mentality is created from the establishment of authority and power over another being or thing. This then causes others to look up to that person then fall in line beside him. Mob mentality is dangerous and yet it is one of the more common things in the world starting as soon as one is born, slowly learning to be like their parents, learning their tongue and behaviors. It is cultivated through years of school how one should act and be and what is not acceptable and what one should do to achive success. Ray Bradbury takes mob mentality and shows amazing examples, yet depressing scenarios, of it in Fahrenheit 451, “All Summer in a Day”, as well as in “The Pedestrian” with his favored idea for explanation of others wishing for complete and utter equality for the whole, with hatred of those who step out of that bubble of normality.
Mob mentality is the idea that when a big group of people are together they loose their sense of individualism and moral constraints to follow blindly what they are told. During the French Revolution mobs were highly prevalent as many of the population were starving, poor, and angry. In A Tale of Two Cities the author, Charles Dickens criticizes mobs by showing how dangerous they can be in many scenes.
Throughout time, people were introduced to the ethics of human nature and how a variety of people have depicted its philosophy. From the previous studies of literature, philosophy, and history, human nature has been a controversial topic on whether we were born wicked or flawless beings. Although there can be a variety of ways on how human nature can be identified, human nature is inherently good that is consequently strained to becoming inherently evil due to society. From the numerous amounts of literature, authors have created a variety of themes that helped warned the audience into shaping their moral ways. In the books of a Tale of Two Cities and The Lord of the Flies, Charles Dickens and William Goulding both show that a man is inherently good and turns evil through the symbolism of the Guillotine and a character name Jack.