Flaws In Lord Of The Flies

The Defects in Society are the Defects of Human Nature in Lord of the Flies

“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed”(Rand). This was stated by Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand; the extract relates to the novel William Golding wrote called Lord of the Flies. Golding wrote about a group of schoolboys trapped on an island from a plane crash. The boys had to figure out how to survive without grownups. Trying to survive was difficult because they had to have common sense and order. They lose those traits throughout the book which resulted in selfishness and corrupt behaviors.

Envy, greed, and pain are what generally drive people to make bad choices and cause them to make more bad choices in response to the bad choice they had made before. In the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph, Jack, and Roger all make bad choices in the book and to deal with the bad choice they had just made, they make more. Golding's opinion on this topic is that to deal with bad choices, humans have to have a reason to explain it or if they don't, they make more bad choices to help them forget about the previous bad choice.

What went wrong in the Lord of the Flies? Some may say Jack and some may say Roger, but what are the real reasons for the downfall of the boys? They are, the loss of hope, the loss of order, and the passing of time.

The latter sentence of the paragraph above leads to further analysis of the impact of people on research and links human errors with the terms perfection and diversity. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines perfect as “being entirely without fault or defect” (“perfect”). This definition is certainly in contradiction to the human nature. Humans are imperfect and are bound to make mistakes, during their life learning experience, to learn and progress. Consequently, research deficiency is expected and both accepted as a natural process in the conquest of knowledge. Apart from imperfection, and again referring to the impact of the human

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a plane escaping Britain in the midst of the next World War crash lands on a desert island. The surviving group of schoolboys begins to fend for themselves without adult supervision. Immediately, a boy named Ralph rises as the leader when he gathers the children with a conch shell. The other children draw toward his charisma and mature age. However, not everyone agrees with this institution of leadership, namely Jack Merridew. The island corrupts as Jack gains a foothold of power. Because of this corruption, two children--Simon and Piggy--die. Throughout this story, these crises are blamed on man’s inner evil prevailing with a lack of civilization and become evident through Jack’s interactions with Ralph,

1. What do you think makes people mess up the planet on which they live? Is this a fundamental human flaw? If so, what is it?

“’Which is better – to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better – to have rules and agree or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?’” (180) In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives the reader a look into a society made up of a group of young British boys, all raised in a sophisticated and civil manner, who crash landed on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. While fighting to survive on the island, most of the boys gave in to the Beast or their savage side that is inside them. Others, like Ralph, find themselves in a battle with their own mind and the rest of the boys. Without rules and order, the boys quickly change

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

Heroes are people in which others idolize and look up to for their redeeming qualities in which others wish to possess, without flaws these heroes would seem unreachable and in turn uninspiring to the reader. Many people use these heroes as model citizens in which the want to eventually become. These idols need to have flaws because without them the people who look up to the hero have no way of working to become that hero. These characters and real life people could not be relatable without the character flaws in which they have. For these flaws are the greatest reason that they are heroes. Unlike lots of everyday humans the heroes are able to reflect on their flaws and overcome them throughout their lives or stories. The reader is constantly

Human beings make mistakes; sometimes they learn from their first mistake, sometimes they learn after

In chapter nine of lord of the flies pathetic fallacy is used as a way to create an ominous mood. While Jack and his hunters are focused on hunting and messing around, Ralph and Piggy are more focused on surviving and getting rescued. Jack and his hunters went out hunting again in this chapter, and killed a wild boar. But as they were retrieving its lifeless corpse to take it back to their base they noticed they needed to raid Ralph and take their fire in order for them to be able to cook the game they hunted, but he did offer Ralph and Piggy some meat and to join them on a feast before the storm raged on.

Societies can and will fall due to flaws in their system which is caused by the bullying and poor decisions that generate because of that. Different ways these flaws can happen are: with two leaders that both want power, straight up bullying people in that group, and by making small separate groups that would work better together.

When canvassing the barbarousness of the world through the media, with cameras fixated on wars, starving children, injustices, and violence, spectators are swindled into believing that evil is impetuous in today’s society. But what spectators fail to see, often as they remark to themselves, “that could never be me,” is that society as a whole is not evil. The divisor of this wickedness, however, is the misconception that evil is an external force. In reality, evil is an internal compulsion manifested in each and every person. The formulating component between this idea of “good and evil” is control, and lack thereof.

“The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.” With this quote, William Golding simply justifies the theme and moral presented in his novel, Lord of the Flies. The characters portray a modern society and depict the cruelty of human disposition. The political system in the U.S., as a whole, is a prime example of the ignorance towards ethical nature and is definitely blameworthy of the ruthlessness of mankind as individuals. Change is needed!