Month: April 2017

“The Lord of the Flies” – Human Nature

“Here – let me go!” His voice rose to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses off his face.” (55)

The boys start to lose their morality when they started stealing Piggy’s glasses, normalizing such actions.

“The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from te palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight.” (130)

The boys disperse from the meeting without being dismissed, leaving behind the rules they are supposed to follow which keeps their morals in check.

“Bullocks 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 – !” (130)

Jack lose sight of the importance of rules. Here, his morals are shown to be heavily abandoned compared to the beginning of the book.

“Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” (164)

Through this chant of killing a pig, the morals of the boy that were claimed in the beginning are completely disassociated. They have turn to savagery, instead of their british morals they held when they first landed on the island.

“We’ll raid them and take fire. There must be four of you; Henry and you, Robert and Maurice.” (194)

The boys have turned against each others, instead of sticking together, losing their moral values.

“Lord of the Flies” – Island Description

The shore was fledged with palm trees… the ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen tees, scattered with decaying cocon.”

Lagoon: “Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake – blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple” (Golding, 10)

Lagoon: “Some act of God – a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival – had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end.” (Golding, 14)

Fire: “The smoke was a tight little knot on the horizon and was uncoiling slowly” (Golding, 93)

Mountain: “Every point of the mountain held up trees- flowers and trees.” (Golding, 39)