The Role of Adults in Lord of the Flies

After Piggy's death the boys on the island could not be more divided. The boys had split into two groups, Jack and his tribe and Ralph who is now alone due to Piggy's death. “Dark, darker my light, and darker my desire,” (Stanza 3), as said by Roethke. The boys are only falling into deeper chaos on the island, and are continuing to become more savage. Jack’s desires, in particular, are becoming darker because he proceeds to throw spears and hunt down Ralph after he had witnessed Piggy's death. This is a great representation of how the boys are becoming more barbaric with the actions that they are taking. At first the boys desires were to get rescued. However, now Jack is coming to the realization that they will probably not be rescued and he wants to hunt down and kill Ralph. Jack starts reinstating to the boys on the island that he is their leader.

In Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, childhood and adolescence can be interpreted as a time of not being in full control of your instincts and barbaric impulses and not being mature enough to be civilized. Golding achieves this by using symbolism in his characters and showing the consequences of the boys making an impulsive decision.

The boys show their first sign of their rebellious instinct shortly after the plane crash. After the boys find one another and gain information about the crash, a realization hits that they are now on their own. When asked by Piggy if there are any adults, Ralph replies “I don’t think so. [...] No grownups!” (8) Ralph states this with excitement, as he now realizes the freedom the boys have. This portrays the internal desire to rebel against authority. The boys associate adults with the rules they had back home. The rules they have at home prevent the boys from doing anything they desire. Now the boys lack any form of adult supervision which allows them to act according to

It is a very arguable subject on whether or not people are born with good intentions, and therefore taught by others the ‘evil’ side of their personality. Whether it is the absence of ethical conduct in human nature, or just the way one perceives a situation, evil seems to be prominent in our everyday lives. Humans seem to have a moral code that follows them with every decision they make, yet despite the laws of morality and society, people of this world still seem to behave inhumanely because of the act of self-preservation, human interest, and who exactly the authority figure is at the time.

The real problem during the boy's experience is they succumb in human nature. After some time on the island and civilization is slowly starting to rot Golding states, “Surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea" (Golding 154). To clarify, the boys as they were babies their parent always taught them to never murder anybody as a rule. As the boys start to realize that there are no rules on the island and are given freedom their human nature breaks and murders a little boy. Furthermore, after Simon's death, Jack wasn't done with lurking for more blood to spill, Golding says, “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee: the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

“It was a recognition that the teen-age years were very tumultuous and that, although they are full-grown and can do damage, … they can't really be held responsible” a man named Dr. Kraemer explains (Sachs). There are times in which children can take others’ lives, which happens for a variety of reasons. The children do not actually understand what has happened, so responsibility cannot be thrust upon them. The same occurs in The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A multitude of young boys survive a plane crash and end up stranded on an island with no adults, nothing salvageable, and no societal ties. They create a fragile society of their own on the island, but order is falling as the boys are left there longer and longer. Inevitably, arguments

And later the death of Piggy too. When the boys kill Simon it shows us how insane and savages the boys have actually become. We see them kill an innocent boy who has done nothing wrong, and most of them do not even acknowledge it happening the next day. “Surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea"(Golding 154). This quote really shows us what the boys have done, they have made a huge mistake, and the reality of what had happened the night before. Next is Piggy’s death, his death symbolizes the complete loss of order. "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee: the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist….. Piggy fell 40 feet and landed on his back across the the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pigs after it has been killed"(Golding 181). When the conch is smashed it is a symbol of the little civilization they had getting destroyed. When Roger kills Piggy he turns into a crazed murder who no longer is sane. There is nothing to do to fix these boys, they will forever have to live with the consequences they have made on the island. As theses school boys have made two murder

The main theme of Lord of the Flies is that moral nature is not instinctive in mankind. There is a capacity for evil in all people, and their morality is superficial. Nonetheless, it is this moral integrity that must continue in order for a person to be ethical, for society to be maintained, and to keep society from falling in on itself. Society holds everyone together. Without the rules and the structure, evil in everyone becomes more prominent, and ideals, values, and basics of right and wrong are forgotten. Without society's rigid rules, chaos and savagery come to light. There are also a number of secondary themes in the book such as: people will abuse power when it is not earned; people will degrade others to

In William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”, the novel simulates aspects of raw human nature. One part of this human nature is the division between good and evil, and how it plays a role in the personality of a human. This idea, develops a concept throughout the story. It is that in every person, there is a level of evil and savagery, this cannot be manipulated, but the level of which one displays it can. It develops personality, some people will tend to hold in their anger or distaste, and others will let it loose, altering the personality among people. In “Lord of the Flies”, this level of evil that is shown, varies in each character among the island.

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” The posed question is if society is controlled by people, or are people controlled by society. Some may argue that society is controlled by people, but if you step into the light is that really the case. If you were to look at society, really look at it, who is being controlled. Its not society itself, sure people affect the directions society turns, but that is a small group of people who represent societies movement and trends. People do not really affect what society truly is. Society is, as said before, a mental concept, the popular, important figures in the world are the physical representation. The world is full of unique individuals, although everyone is under influence of society. It is subconscious, but always there. These next paragraphs will express how society controls people by elaborating on three main ideas that show up in the book Lord of The Flies. Society controls our actions, we learn from society and use it to try to be in control of others, and it is always there and so we have no idea what to do apart from it.

If you put a child who has never been influenced about anything in a room with another well rounded human being, things may not go as planned. This child may react with the second person differently because they have not had anyone showing them how to interact with others. In Lord of the Flies we see how these children act once they are taken away from being in contact with others and we see how that compares to a girl who has never had a type of relationship with an adult.

When they first arrive at the island, Jack and the rest of the boys wears the same mask of innocence as every other human being, but it soon begins to slip. Throughout a massacre of pigs, Jack and the other boys releases their animal nature. Initially, the boys try to set up an island society that mimics the English society, with discipline and authority. The behavior of the boys is the same as they showed at school back home, but the need to be the survival of the fittest pushes the boys’ past their humanized nature. The children want to have familiar rules. Piggy says, “We’ll have rules!” he cried excitedly. “Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks ‘em--” (Golding 25). Everyone follows the rules in the beginning, hoping that it will lead their rescue. But when their hopes dwindle, they soon fall out of order, becoming two independent and opposed groups. To become superior to the others, Jack kills pigs and humans and earns the place of a tribe leader. His actions show that humans act to

All people change over time. They develop, mature, and leave their childhood behind. But what causes this realization of their own place in the world? Lord of the Flies, a fictional allegory written by William Golding, demonstrates the protagonist evolving throughout the story. Ralph matures from an easygoing and carefree boy to being aware of the inner demon residing in humans.

For children who have adults constantly telling them what to do, the slightest amount of freedom will put a smile on their faces. Although many kids wouldn't mind being their own boss, kids need adults to help them through tough situations they face as they are growing up. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, not having adults around seems great, but it doesn’t live up to its expectation. Throughout the story, Ralph realizes that there are many things he can’t handle on his own.

William Golding’s novel, the Lord of the Flies, gives an idea on how situations would be like without the presence of adults. In the book, the boys were stranded on an island without any adults and had to develop their own rules, which did not work out as well because without adults, there was no control over them. After Ralph’s good friend Piggy dies, the narrator says,” Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. ”(Golding, 225)The narrator demonstrates the fact that Ralph cried because the innocence that he and the rest of the boys once had was gone because hatred and savagery took over them. The narrator shows how the loss of innocence is also due to the isolation from adults.