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            LORD OF THE FLIES by WILLIAM GOLDING.
             How does lord of the files reflect/ examine a modern society?.
             I think Lord Of The Flies by William Golding reflects how children feel society is run today. It explores society through the eyes and ideals of boys stranded on an island. A modern society accepts various leadership qualities and cultural beliefs to create systems that work to ensure people are safe and well looked after. The boys, through their naive age, reveal the defects of a society at odds with creating safety and structure. This essay will show how the boys attempt to create a society. This is a problem because their knowledge of how adults make a society work is both a flawed view and flawed through the models the boys recall. Also it shows how dictatorship and primitivism works in bad ways.
             People like Piggy can't be a leader in the tribe because the children instantly judge him for what he looks like. His problems are on the outside and not the inside. Piggy would have been a better leader than Ralph and Jack. Instead what he does is that he uses some one who has the properties he doesn't have and uses them to his advantage. He uses Ralph to portray his ideas amongst the tribe and get them to do the things that is best. Because Ralph is unsure about what he wants to do, Piggy assures him what the best thing is. Piggy makes up for his uncertainty and usually gets him to do what he feels is right. This shows that Piggys clever insight into people means he is able to manipulate such a character as Ralph. It also shows how Piggy is able to work with people's characteristics to help develop a society. Unlike Jack, who is set in his own ways and wants to become a savage. .
             Jack doesn't need Piggy or Ralph telling him what to do because he really does have strong ideas about himself, his own strength and what he should have. He believes in living for the moment. Jacks laziness even kills a child in the mountain fire, but he doesn't even care.


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