Lord of the Flies - passage

‘There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast... Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!... You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are?’ ”
Chapter 8, pg. 130

I really like this passage because this is where the truth comes out about human nature. The pig’s head declares it was the boys that made everything worse not the beast. The beast didn’t exist but boys did. The evil is always inside of us. Without any control we will be devils. William Golding stated that evil is always inside and part of us. Humans are who makes this planet ugly and dirty. We are the trash in the earth. If it wasn’t us, the earth will be so much better place to live in. Even animals know how to share love and sacrifice themselves to save the others, but we don’t know. All we know is how to trick people for our own goods, and kill people. We might pretend ourselves better than animals. We might wear clothes, eat in the tables, and poop in the bathroom but our true selves are below animals. We just act civilized. Humans are evil and we are the beast. Animals are more innocent, more pure, and cleaner. We claim ourselves the “lord of all creation”, but we are the worst of our creation. Not every human is evil and dirty but most of us are. I even admit myself that I am dirty and evil. No one can stop the awakening of the evil except you. You have to have self control and get full power over the evilness. No one but you can do it. In disordered world like Lord of the Flies, the evil inside of us awakes itself more and more. Even at this moment, evil in us is slowly but constantly opening its eyes.

Lord of the Flies - theme

The theme of this novel Lord of the Flies is problem between civilization and savagery. I think acting like civilized person mean acting exactly like how others act. Following rules that were made by others make the life boring. But acting savagery isn’t all good. In the beginning of the novel, kids were more civilized under Ralph’s control, but later kids were more wild and savagery after throwing their innocence under Jack’s control. Living by rules and morals are boring but it’s very peaceful and safe. Living without a rule and without a control is freer and more fun, but if it goes out of control and too wild, than it is a chaos. Throughout the novel, William Golding declares civilization is good and savagery is evil. The conflict between two instincts makes the boys confused and lost. First the boys are disciplined, civilized, and under control but the more they face the savagery, they lost the sanity and pureness in themselves. They changed more brutal, wilder, and cruel. This novel is a symbolic novel and Golding has meaning for everything that happens in the story. He tried to mention two kinds of instinct by conflict between main characters, Ralph and Jack. Ralph tries to fight against the instinct of savagery but he isn’t determine and strong enough to lead the group of people. He also shows that all humans have evil and dark side within them and it can surface anytime if you give chance to surface. All humans are born with sanity and pureness but it can be destroyed and changed any time.

Lord of the Flies - setting

William Golding never gives specific location of the island, but he describes it well. The island really made them think like they were really in the war and that made the boys wilder. Maybe if they were in the city they probably had more consciousness and not lose all their innocence, but it wasn’t all about the surroundings. It was really themselves that led to the fall of their innocence, sanity, and civilization. The setting that is memorable to me is the top of the mountain where they set the fire to be rescued. Many things had happened in that place. Kids had seen beast at the top of the mountain which was actually injured pilot with parachute. That created a boundary and made them not wanted to come. Finally, they had to move the place to set a fire. That was the place of hope but later it changed it to place of horror.

I also like the place where they had a meeting. The place was mysterious but it’s the place where all the ideas came together to make progress in their society. First, the meetings were held well and everybody respected each other. They listen to others opinions and they tried to make it better. But more they held the meetings no one really took it seriously; they took it as part of their play. The meetings were more like small version of battle. They fought to get a control over conch so they can talk during the meeting. Most of the times, it was a joke and noting was achieved.

Lord of the Flies - entry of my choice

What would have happened if there were girls with the boys in the island? What would be same, what would be different?
I think if there were girls the boys would have respected girls in the beginning. They probably did way more work than girls and try hard to show the girls to show off. Boys are like that. Girls probably had to do less work or easier work like gathering fruits and getting water. If girls have been there, girls probably had to take care of the fire and boys probably had to hunt. Girls wouldn’t like to hunt, and boys wouldn’t like to keep fire safe. Both of the genders will be happy and they probably never even have fought. This is what it is going to happen when boys respect girls. If boys don’t respect girls, girls will be treated like an animal. People like Jack will take control of girls and treat them as slaves. In ancient times, women are treated lower then an animal and often they gave out women as a reward. But Ralph probably had more respect, because he knows what girls can do that boys can’t. If Jack falls in love in one of the girls, it will be a different story. If that girl is wise enough, she will take control over Jack and make him reconcile with Ralph. I think if the girls are wise enough, they are going to make the situation better and also add some vital and energy in island. Little boy, Simon, Piggy’s death might not have taken place, and they might have been rescued earlier. Girls are normally more responsible, less violent, and thoughtful, but having only boys in the island made the ideas and true meaning of the novel that William Golding wanted to show. If author have added girls in the novel, it wouldn’t have deep meaning under a storyline. It will only be boring adventure story book.

Lord of the Flies - connection to the world

The world is full of humans, full of darkness. Our world has no hope and no future. We are surrounded by dark and the barbe wire fences. We are trapped without any light in our future. In the novel Lord of the Flies, the dark side of the human surfaced fully and threatened boy’s life. They think it’s a beast that is threatening their lives but it is actually evil side of them. They don’t realize themselves are the evil. Finally Simon realizes they are evil but even before he tells them, he becomes victim of evil of human. Humans are everywhere and evil is everywhere. The world can’t be pure and innocent with human on the world. The dirty marks on this world are all caused by humans. I bet without the humans on this earth, the earth will be better place to live for nature. In civilized world, the dark side of human doesn’t seem like to appear as much as in novel Lord of the Flies, but surely they are everywhere. If people lose the control of themselves and give up to be a human, like boys did in the novel, the world will be catastrophe. Everyone will try to harm, kill, and trick each other and it living there will be like living in a battlefield. We can always be in Ralph situation, being chased, if humans loose their hope and sanity. These problems can be fixed if humans are desire to stay as a civilized human and don’t lost last pureness and sanity in down on their heart. We should live everyday humble, relaxed, and joyful. Having a peace in ourselves is the only way to escape from being a beast.

Lord of the Flies - mood

The mood of this novel, Lord of the Flies, is very dark. More you seek for truth meaning of the novel, more depressing it is. In the beginning of the novel, the mood is gloomy but there is hope. Kids got dropped in the island where they aren’t any adults, but luckily they are able to get food and water. There life is full of adventure but more towards the end, people fight for power and peace of society gets ruined. Sadly, this is the truth of the world. People fight for their benefit and everybody wants power. At the resolution, kids lose all the bright side of human nature and dark side surfaces. Simon tried to tell others that the beast is in themselves but he got killed. Whoever tries to do good thing gets killed. Not everyone but history has proven that to be a hero, you need sacrifice even if that is your life. In the surface, our world looks perfectly fine and beautiful but more we dig in to the truth, all the dirtiness and dark side of human appears. All the humans are dirty, and this book shows you how dirty the human can be. Human can kill and destroy each other just to get what they want. The sanity and innocence of human doesn’t exist any more in this world. All the sanity and innocence of humans are all fake and wrong image. Why can’t the world be pure? Why can’t human be clean? Those questions and the fact that dark side of human can really surface to the world make me depress and sadden.

Lord of the Flies - Climax

The climax of this novel, Lord of the Flies, is when Jack and his tribes purposely killed Piggy. That is when the devil side of human fully surfaced and when there weren’t any point of return. The first death in the novel was unintentional and it was nobody’s fault. The body just disappeared one night and no one knew anything about him. They don’t even know his name. The second death of Simon was the group’s fault but it was unintentional. They killed him but they didn’t purposely did it. They didn’t know what they were doing. The last death, Piggy’s death, was intentional and it was Jack’s fault. They totally knew what they were doing and they killed Piggy. They totally knew what they were doing. After Piggy’s death, Ralph had no point of return and he had to run away for his life.
After, Simon’s death Ralph and Piggy at least had own society to continue their lives. They had hope and future. They had everything they needed for survival and Jack was only threat in the island. But after Piggy’s death, things have changed. Ralph didn’t have any hope or future. If officer didn’t come, he probably got killed. I rather die than being chased by people like an animal. The climax made me really sad because it showed how dirty humans can be. Humans are dirty and ugly. They do whatever to achieve their goal. Jack killed Piggy to destroy, the democracy. The dirtiness of humans is everywhere. They are stained in our everyday life but can’t really see them in civilized world.

Lord of the Flies - Main Character

Main characters in this novel, Lord of the Flies, are Ralph and Jack. Ralph is the leader of civilized world and Jack is the leader of wild world. They both have unique characteristic, different perspective, different mind set, and different abilities so I really like both of them. Even though they didn’t work together that well, they wanted to control and make better society. They just have different views and opinions which caused collapse of the society. In the novel Jack seems like he is the bad and evil one but he was just trying to rule kids in his own justice. He did what he think is right. Not everything he did was right from our view, but he was just trying follow what he think is right. In the other hand, Ralph did more right things in our point of view. But he wasn’t determined and strong enough to keep everyone under control. He ruled the group as democracy. In the leadership wise, Jack has more potential but Ralph had more civilized though. If both of them had worked together, they probably had more fun, more comfortable time, and rescued when the first ship came to island. Ralph symbolizes democracy and weakness in power and Jack symbolizes dictatorship and powerfulness. Democracy took place by existence of couch. Whoever has the conch can speak and everybody should listen and respect them, but later everybody talked whenever they wanted to. When conch broke it was end of democracy and start of dictatorship Jack wanted to rule how he wanted to rule even before form of democracy. Jack wanted power. Ralph wanted justice.