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'The Lord of the Flies' Savagery - Violence
William Golding's novel The Lord of The flies' presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island, left to try and retain a civilized society. In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes.
At the opening of the novel, Ralph and Jack get on extremely well. We are informed Jack, "shared his burden," and there was an, "invisible light of friendship," between the two boys. Jack changes considerably throughout this novel. At first he tells us, "I agree with Ralph we've got to have rules and obey them," This shows us that at the beginning of the novel, just like Ralph, he wants to uphold a civilized society. We are also notified, "Most powerfully there was the conch." As the conch represents democracy we can see that at the beginning of the novel the boys sustain a powerful democratic society.
This democratic society does not last very long as the children (especially Jack) have a lack of respect for the conch and the rules. We can see this when Jack decides, "We don't need the conch anymore; we know who should say things." As the conch represents democracy we can see that civilization on the island is braking up and savagery is starting to take over. We can also see a brake up in society when Jack says, "Bollocks to the rules!" Here we can see that Jack contradicts himself while managing to diminish the assembly and the power of the conch. Golding has made the two boys' act similar at the beginning of the novel to show us how normal' they are. This demonstrates Golding's view that absolutely anyone can be over ruled by power and become savage (like Jack) when civilization collapses.
After this incident we can see continual conflict between Ralph and Jack. We can see this when Jack proclaims that Ralph, "Isn't a proper chief." Golding is trying to show us that this conflict is very...
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