Lord Of The Flies Situational Factors Analysis

Causal Factors People often make the comment, ‘that would never happen normally’ to explain their actions in a certain situation. While they think that this is a viable answer to unusual actions, scientists have reason to believe that there are more than just two factors that affect people behaviors. First they think about situational factors including environment and surroundings, otherwise known as right place, right time. Secondly, they look at biological factors that encompass emotional development and factors of the brain. Looking at all of the situations that happened on Lord of the Flies and how the boys all reacted, can it be easy to assume that it was just the environment and surroundings that caused them to turn into savages and …show more content…
If they hadn’t ever crash landed on that island, they never would have been in any of the situations that they found themselves in.” ‘Aren’t there any grownups at all?’ ‘I don’t think so’ … ‘No grownups!’”(8). Shortly after landing on the island, the kids realized that there were no grownups on the island at all and that they were going to have to care and look after themselves if they wanted to survive long enough to hopefully get saved. This began the fight for command on the island. Since there was no adult for the children to look up to, they were forced to look up to one of the older boys. Ralph and Piggy had put themselves into a position of leadership when they first called the meeting with the conch and started to give each of the children a name that was easier to remember and keeping track of all the survivors. The environmental factor of being on the island without any type of adult leadership forced them to ‘grow up’ quickly and take care of …show more content…
Ralph had made simple requests of all the kids equally that were going to help them get rescued but Jack had different plans. Jack was in control of all of the choir kids and started to affect the minds of the others by tempting them with food. This was easy to do because being on the island and deprived of food, children are naïve and are easily distracted by lures of precious food. The children were frightened by the situation and mentally they turn back to their most simple of functions: food, water, shelter, and sleep. “Jack got everyone meat and went to share with them are earned a lot of respect from the children” (74) which later really helped when he tried to overthrow Ralph and get all the kids to be a part of his tribe. The children’s emotions were tied up and they were unable to make rational decisions. At first they supported Ralph because he talked about getting rescued and going back home to a normal environment that they yearned for. Later Jack provided them with food, something they all wanted and needed desperately, and they began to follow everything he said simply because he was their