Persuasive Essay On Lord Of The Flies

William Golding, author of the classic novel, Lord of the Flies, had a number of life experiences that impacted his view of the world and led to the creation of his book. The most prominent experience he has had might of been his time spent in the Royal Navy, which revealed a darkness in himself and his writing. This darkness was portrayed by the beast by aspects of War, Fear, and Savagery.

The boys chant, “Kill the beast, cut his throat spill his blood!” in chapter 9, while they horrifically murder Simon because they believe him to the beast. Golding never properly explains what exactly the beast is, though his heavy use of symbolism can give many clues. Whatever the beast is, it’s horrible enough to drive the boys to murder. Throughout Lord of the Flies, the beast takes many forms: it begins as fear, then morphs into war, which then combine to demonstrate the savagery of human nature.

Lord of the Flies is a book that takes place during World War II, and is about a group of English school boys who crashed in a plane on an island without any adult survivors. Throughout the story, the boys struggle to keep a mindset based on rescue and survival, and instead think more about hunting and having fun, while avoiding any responsibility. During this, the boys also struggle with fear of a "beastie" - what is the beast? To the author, the beast began as war, then it became the externalized form of the boys' fear, and ended as savagery.

What do you picture in your mind when someone mentions a beast? Fangs? Claws? That is what the castaways believe the beast to look like on the island in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The story follows several school boys who have crashed onto an exotic island. They elect a leader, Ralph, and they break up into groups: the hunters, the “littluns”, and the hut builders. Soon the “littluns" become frightened of a beast that no one has seen, and it becomes an obsession of the islanders. They interpret the beast in many ways, saying it comes from the water, the sky, and one of the boys even suggested that the beast was themselves. So, what is the beast? The beast could be a representation of war, fear, or human savagery.

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of English school boys who are stranded on a tropical island after their plane has been attacked and crashes during World War II. In the beginning, the boys like being on their own without adults. The boys separate into two groups, led by Jack and Ralph. Jack is obsessed with hunting, and he and his group pay do not pay attention. Ralph is concerned about keeping a rescue fire lit so they will have a chance to be rescued, but no one else seems too concerned about it. At least one ship passes by without noticing the boys on the island. Things on the island deteriorate into chaos and savagery. Jack and his tribe are consumed with hunting and

Imagine you were stranded, with a bunch of other kids your age. Seeing that there is no authority, no law; wouldn’t anyone feel strange? Wouldn’t one feel the necessity to set forth a few rules, to maintain everyone’s sanity? In the book, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, the hidden brutality of one’s self becomes their worst nightmare. The theme of this story is: without structure and rule our basic ideas of how to treat other people and what is right or wrong will be lost.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is an extremely popular book to all ages. This novel takes place in a nuclear war in an unspecified place. Some of these characters have normal personalities and home life situations, but others definitely do not. In the beginning of the novel, most of the boys are normal but getting stranded on a deserted island can really change a person, emotionally and mentally. An example of them being changed is, towards the end of the book when they start getting crazy they all eat Simon and start to kill one another off of starvation. In this novel, it is pretty obvious that you really can not trust anyone under these circumstances. Thus, there is a savage in all humans.

Lord of the flies by William Golding encapsulates one very possible outcome of what would occur if a group of young and impressionable boys, mostly pre-teen and younger were stranded on a deserted island. At first, the boys attempt to be civilized by determining roles for certain people such as a group of hunters and a primary leader. Jack is determined the leader of the hunters and Ralph is appointed to the position as the primary leader. As the story progresses, the leader of the hunting group jack becomes liberated when placing clay on his face as he feels less self-conscious when acting in a savage way. The thought of a scary beast on the island lingers in the boys' minds, and with that, a conflict between Jack and Ralph comes into fruition. Jack wants to hunt the beast down while Ralph wants to deal with the issue using reasoning and logic. Most of the boys follow in jacks ways and proceed to attempt in hunting down the beast. When Jack becomes the primary leader, it is shown that jack leads in a manner the

The novel Lord of the Flies conveys that no matter what, when people are left to themselves, without civilization, they will go savage. The boys lose hope of being rescued, they stop caring about the safety of each other and

In the Lord of The Flies by William Golding, many actions of the characters display savagery and how the decline of civilization effects it. Even the strongest of civilizations will at one point collapse. This book holds perfect example of possibilities that could happen in the real world. Just a couple of children that are trapped on an island can turn to killing. Their simple rebellion turns into the destruction of their civilization, and their thoughts and fears turn into savagery. Simply, the boys action causes for their civilization to crumble and their thoughts turn into reality, due to multiple causes.

Twelve year old boys are stranded on an island with a sense of survival, but these young boys become uncivilized and turn into “savages”. They say that they cannot control their savage ways, I disagree with that statement. I think the boys could have some control is some situations.Ralph and Jack separated as two different leaders. Ralph wanted to get saved and build a fire, while Jack has been on the other side of the island, hunting and acting wild. The group of boys decided to join Jack’s side because he was a fun leader and traveled to his side. Jack never saw the island as a threat, he wanted to have fun and be wild. He would stand tall and saw proudly in the group, “this is our island. It's a good island. Until grownups come

There was much destruction in the wake of the first World War. Millions of people had been killed or disablitated by this devastating war. Housing and whole towns were left in ruin with nothing more then rumble to mark where they had been. Millions of people were starving in German as a result of the Hunger Blockade. Needless to say it was time for peace but the ending of World War I wasn't all that peaceful as was hoped.

In the book, The Lord of the Flies, a group of boys survived a plane crash, when it was shot down and are stuck on an island by themselves. The boys voted for a guy named Ralph, who was the oldest,  to to be in charge of decisions they needed to make in order to get organized and survive. Ralph knew that food was important and chose Jack to lead some of the guys to hunt.      There were pigs on the island, that the hunters tried to capture.  Ralph and his sidekick Piggy find a large shell, called a conch shell on the beach and decide that they could use it to call out to everyone to gather around for meetings. Whoever is holding the conch shell gets to speak. Ralph decides that they should light a big fire on the top of a mountain, so that if a boat came near or plane flew by, they would see that there was life on the island.  Jack was an arrogant and stubborn guy and he volunteered the hunters to be in charge of keeping the fire lit throughout the day and night. After the first couple days the smaller kids start having nightmares from being on the island, and hearing strange sounds.  They thought there was a scary beast that hiding and walking around the island. The older kids try to comfort them and tell them there are no beasts.

When a plane crashes on a deserted island, a group of boys change from pure to barbaric in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies. The boys must learn how to survive after getting stranded without authority. At first, they create a civil system with an elected leader, but as time passes, they approach new scenarios that have the ability to steal their harmlessness. When taken away from civilization, people have a tendency to lose their innocence.

The interdependency of parts of a civilization is seen throughout the ages, showing how when society is balanced and everything is functioning properly, there will be no conflict. However, there are empirical examples of how when there is an imbalance, civilizations often revert back to primitive ways of living in order to survive, which often leads to an increase of violence and brutality. In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding expresses how certain boys on the island can represent aspects in society by using light and dark imagery and shows the impact if one of those facets is destroyed.