The Theme Of Wiseness And Purity In Lord Of The Flies

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Raven Scheihing
Ms Tantlinger
Honors English 10
2 January 2018
Without Wiseness And Purity Evil Will Take Its Place
Adam and Eve, first people given the capacity to produce negative and destructive concepts such as shame and evil. The two were deceived into eating from a tree that they were told not to eat from. The two then lost their purity and showed God that everyone has the key to pure savage, it’s a matter of unlocking it and showing what real man’s state of nature is. In the book, Lord of The Flies, William Golding uses evil to devise the real image of what happens when rules and orders are forgotten and wiseness and pureness are destroyed. Golding establishes this by using the deaths of Piggy and Simon to identify man’s state of nature, which is evil.
The savagery on the island begins to occur when the boys begin to forget
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Piggy one of the wisest boys tells the troublemaker Jack , “You didn’t ought to have let the fire out. You said you’d keep the smoke going” (Golding 71). The rules created on the island have been forgotten. Jack was more concerned about hunting and having fun than the thought of being rescued. When rules are forgotten in society there is punishment and or discipline. In this case there is boys who are innocent with no punishment or discipline so no rules and orders are being followed. Without rules and orders things will go chaotic resulting in drastic movements that will change the boys lives forever.
Piggy and Simon are different from the group. They have something that not everyone has on the island. Piggy is wise and Simon is pure. Piggy was an adult like figure in the book. He strived to keep the boys under control but was lacking the correspondence of all of the boys. Golding emphasizes the maturity of Piggy by using his phrases to fabricate his adult like figure, for example: “ which is better-to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?” (Golding 180) Piggy

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