The content within the Lord of the Flies proves to the reader that in certain circumstances a human being will become uncivilized and the conditions will cause a complete opposite personality to come out. Throughout the novel, the reader is exposed to the young British boys who are unsupervised and run wild through out the island. William Golding portrays the primitive inner voice as the realization collides with all the views that majority of the readers have before reading the Lord of the Flies. The reader is exposed the horrifying sides of bestiality, destruction and savagery that no one wants to admit ways of this degree of uncivilization exist. William Golding's Lord of the Flies bombards its readers with the themes of bestiality, destruction and savagery and forces upon them the horrifying awareness that within each human being that primitive inner force is the culprit.
In the beginning, the boys' British influences are very prevalent. They even select a leader, Ralph by a voting system. The boys even delegate hunters, and they formed and shaped rules that dealt with their new society. Jack did not even have the fortitude to kill a pig. " the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood- Ralph remarks about Jack's chance of killing a pig (Golding 31). Jack only comments that the next time the pig will not get away from him. This proves to the reader that the primitive inner force within these boys has yet to surface.
The primitive voice surfaces next when they boys decided to make a signal fire to alert ships and planes that they are on the island. As the boys began to provide wood to enable the fire to burn, the fire spreads and it causes a small forest fire, which destroyed some of the island. Golding describes the forest by writing " . quarter of mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame- (44). This fire leaves a scar of the boys presence on the island.