Lord of the Flies, by Sir William Golding, succeeds as an attempt to trace the defects of society.
The collapse of rules, the increase in murders, and the final destruction of all life are.
outcomes to a degrading society caused by defects in human nature. Throughout his novel,.
Golding describes a society which is established by individuals, whose own human nature causes.
a collapse in their world, finally failing to supply the needs and control the powers of those.
individuals. His story of the Lord of the Flies, is able to show the parallel between the problems.
in human nature and the poor outcome of human society. .
Lord of the Flies is a story about a group of boys who become stranded on an island,.
unsupervised by adults. They create rules and a method of communicating by ownership of a.
conch shell. The two main characters, Ralph and Jack, become the leaders of the group, with.
Piggy, the younger, pudgy boy with glasses, as a constant guide. In the beginning of the book,.
Jack and Ralph work together to hunt and build shelters, while the rules set forth by the society.
are well kept. However, when a ship passes the island without stopping, the boys blame one.
another for letting the fire die. Soon after, the youngest boys, known as the littluns (Golding,.
59), start to fear an imaginary beast, an evil creature that lives on the island. Though Ralph and.
Jack try to convince them otherwise, Sam and Eric, the twins of the group, claim to see the beast,.
which is actually a downed pilot. Many of the boys are afraid now, and Piggy suggests that they.
stay together. Jack disagrees, which cause a split in the group. .
The boys are now divided into those who wish to keep the fire going, and those who hunt.
the beast. Jack and Ralph disagree on many points, especially the hunting. Jack then begins to.
use the fear of the beast to get boys to follow him, and to come to "join [his] tribe and have fun.".
(p. 150) While hunting, the boys kill a pig, smearing the blood on their faces, cutting off the pig's.