Society contains violence. People receive joy when players begin to fight in a hockey game. People are happy when the villain dies in a novel, movie, or television show. In human nature, it appears normal to get upset and angry when a person cuts off another person on the road. Society responds to those actions with road rage by making rude gestures, or even taking it to the extremes of getting out of the car and actually laying hands on someone else. Civilization is violent. The world is corrupt with war and violence, and William Golding, the author of the novel Lord of the Flies, experienced it first hand by serving in World War II. Golding experienced the savagery of humankind during the war because everyone was shooting and blowing each
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The dead parachutist in Lord of the Flies “was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs.” (Golding 95). The adult world had sent a message to the boys showing how the adults are just as savage, if not more, than the boys on the island. The boys see the dead parachutist as a “beast” that is lurking the island because they haven’t actually seen it yet; they only see the figure on top of the mountain. In all reality, it actually is a beast because this message from the adult world shows how the adults are beasts or monsters while waging war on each other. Just like Simon, the dead parachutist also washes out to the sea, and the boys never get to see that he was a man killed from the …show more content…
The Lord of the Flies is a mysterious creature in this novel. Innate savagery is not something people can stop from happening; it automatically happens when humans “act in the absence of civilizing factors.” (Thomas Hobbes). When the Lord of the Flies talks to Simon, he explains, “Fancy thinking the beast was something you can hunt and kill… I’m the reason things are the way they are.” (Golding 143). The beast tries to tempt Simon into becoming a savage like he already has done to Jack and the rest of the
The dead parachutist in Lord of the Flies “was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs.” (Golding 95). The adult world had sent a message to the boys showing how the adults are just as savage, if not more, than the boys on the island. The boys see the dead parachutist as a “beast” that is lurking the island because they haven’t actually seen it yet; they only see the figure on top of the mountain. In all reality, it actually is a beast because this message from the adult world shows how the adults are beasts or monsters while waging war on each other. Just like Simon, the dead parachutist also washes out to the sea, and the boys never get to see that he was a man killed from the …show more content…
The Lord of the Flies is a mysterious creature in this novel. Innate savagery is not something people can stop from happening; it automatically happens when humans “act in the absence of civilizing factors.” (Thomas Hobbes). When the Lord of the Flies talks to Simon, he explains, “Fancy thinking the beast was something you can hunt and kill… I’m the reason things are the way they are.” (Golding 143). The beast tries to tempt Simon into becoming a savage like he already has done to Jack and the rest of the