Lord of the Flies and Psychology

     Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel that represents a microcosm of society in a tale about children stranded on an island. Of the group of young boys there are two who want to lead for the duration of their stay, Jack and Ralph.  Through the opposing characters of Jack and Ralph, Golding reveals the gradual process from democracy to dictatorship from Ralph's democratic election to his lack of law enforcement to Jack's strict rule and his violent law enforcement.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of young British boys are left stranded on an island after a fatal plane crash in the midst of a World War. With no communication to the outer world and no presence or influence of adults on the island, Ralph, Jack Merridew, and Piggy are forced to take initiative if the group of hopeless boys want to survive. The group of boys experience a drastic change throughout their time on the island, a change that no one would ever expect to occur to a young group of primed British boys. The leader of the stranded choirists on the island, Jack Merridew, shows such a change that he soon persuades other boys to follow his savage actions as the novel progresses. Though the changes to Jack’s mental and physical characteristics advance slowly at first, the final personality of Jack is instantly taken over at the climax of the novel to a dehumanized savage. Jack’s innocence is corrupted by his inability to withstand a society without rules proving man's good essential nature is altered by the evil within society.

William Golding’s experiences in World War II deeply influenced his views on man’s nature. Golding’s allegorical novel, Lord of The Flies, explores the frightening and consistent, yet ignored, truths of man’s nature. British schoolboys board a plane in hopes to escape their war torn land. Unfortunately, the plane is shot down, thrusting the boys into a deserted island and leaving them to their own devices. At first, the boys look to find independence and freedom on the island where civilization no longer matters. However, it is soon clear that the boys cannot simply run away from their natural tendencies. Jack, previously a choir leader, is among the stranded boys, and slowly but surely rises to power on the island. Jack’s corrupted authority fuels his inner selfishness and leads him to consciously feed off of the fear of isolation and annihilation of his blind followers, thus proving that authority can overpower one's self-control.

During World War II, a plane crashes on an unknown island leaving multiple British schoolboys stranded with no adults. Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, tells the story of boys struggling to create a new society from scratch. When they crash, there are no rules or leaders. They must create their own civilization. To create order, Jack thinks there needs to be a leader. Ralph and Jack are both interested in being the leader which creates conflict. While Ralph wants to create order and concentrate on rescue, Jack enjoys the hunt and insists on getting meat to eat with no hope of being rescued. Another character is Piggy who likes to help Ralph and stands up for him. While he is very intelligent, he lacks the leadership skills to rule the island. Roger, an older boy, is a follower of Jack who also enjoys hunting and killing, but for fun instead of necessity.

Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is set in the time of a war evaluation. A British plane crashes on or near an isolated island, which leaves only children to survive. An older boy named Ralph appears responsible for gathering all the survivors. The boys naturally follow him because he of his age, beauty, and temperament. Ralph has “a mildness about his mouth and eyes that claimed no devil” (Golding, 10). Thus, he is quickly elected "chief" by the boys. Without leadership skills, the boys may not have lasted on the island for the time that they did. Some of the skills shown by Ralph were initiative, engagement, and responsibility.

Lord of the Flies is a novel, written by William Golding and published in 1954, about a young group of British school boys who are stranded on a desert island after their plane is shot down, in the midst of a raging war. The group encounters a myriad number of problems and boisterous arguments and disputes between the boys group. Internal and external conflicts are present throughout the novel, whether it be man vs man, man vs, himself or man versus nature. William Golding portrays conflict mainly through the characterisation of the two main characters: Ralph, leader of the civilised, and Jack, leader of the savage group. Golding draws on parallels with modern society through the growing tension between civilisation and savagery. The author does this in three key moments throughout the rising action

Loud, boisterous chanting raged all around Simon. Jack and the others surrounded Simon and started biting, spitting, brutally murdering Simon. Suddenly, the boys stopped and resumed eating the sow, leaving Simon to lay on the beach, dead, surrounded by his own blood. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of British schoolboys are trapped on an uninhabited island after flying on a plane that later crashed. In the beginning, the boys held civilization, the hope of rescue, and democracy to the highest esteem. By the middle, the boys, especially Jack, no longer respected the democracy. They savagely stole glasses and, with face paint on, murdered Simon. By the end of the book, Jack’s dictatorship reigned supreme as his tribe launched a boulder at Piggy, killing him, and burned down the island, just to kill Ralph.

Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding shows his views of the inherent evil of humans. He shows how humans can be in such a savage state, practically mimicking the way of life of their prehistoric ancestors. He exemplifies this with acts of carnage carried on by the young stranded children. It all started with a slight urge to hunt down a pig and then continued on to murdering another human being. Golding shows his views best at the end of the book with the boys being rescued by a Navy crew, which would go on to war it self.

The Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is an allegory that connects the boys’ behavior in the novel to the basic instinct of human nature. Revolving around a time of war, the plane of several British schoolboys is shot down, and they find themselves stranded on an island without the guidance of adults. Initially, the young children are motivated to construct a stable and organized leadership similar to the one they left behind, but the boys are faced with challenges and inner conflicts. The struggles the group faces and the effect of isolationism influences the boys into their descent toward savagery. Golding's characterization of Roger over the course of the novel portrays how the loose imposition of rules, morals, and structure

In his first novel, William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society. Three main characters depicted different effects on certain individuals under those circumstances. Jack Merridew began as the arrogant and self-righteous leader of a choir. The freedom of the island allowed him to further develop the darker side of his personality as the Chief of a savage tribe. Ralph started as a self-assured boy whose confidence in himself came from the acceptance of his peers. He had a fair nature as he was willing to listen to Piggy. He became increasingly

In viewing the aspects of the island society, the author William Golding's Lord of the Flies as a symbolic microcosm of society. He chooses to set the children alone in an unsupervised world, leaving them to learn ‘ the ways of the world’ in a natural setting first hand. Many different perspectives can also be considered. Golding's island of marooned youngsters becomes a microcosm. The island represents the individual human and the various characters represent the elements of the human psyche.

Some speculate that the people who commit extremely appalling acts as adults were raised to commit these ghastly crimes, while others believe that everyone is born with an evil already inside of them. In William Golding’s psychological fiction Lord of the Flies, the idea of being born innately evil is recurrently alluded to. The novel is about a group of young British boys who crash land on a remote island. They are left with no laws to tell them what they can or cannot do, and are extremely frightened of a so called “Beast” that they expect lives on the island. In the Lord of the Flies, “The Beast” symbolizes the evil and devilish proclivity inside of all humans. Through the use of “The Beast”, William Golding illustrates how the novel is

Lord of the Flies depicts the disintegration of the order and the collapse of the harmony mainly embedded in the conflict between Ralph and Jack, the two competing leaders in the novel. The story is set in the middle of the raging war, when a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down on a deserted island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch and make use of it to assemble other boys. Piggy, who is the

Lord of the Flies by William Golding mirrors how the lack of adults causes the kids to go into turmoil. When the plane of a group of boys from age’s six to twelve crashes, they are left alone since the only adults died in the crash. Soon after, they decide to elect a leader, twelve year old Ralph, which leaves a bad taste in Jack’s mouth, another survivor of the crash, since he wanted to be leader; however he gets distracted from this when Ralph says he can lead a group of hunters. As these hunters, they capture and kill pigs to eat, but also promise to kill the monster a littlun claims to see. Things for the boys start to go wrong when a fire used to signal a boat spreads down the hill and kills a boy. Jack and Ralph start to argue more and

Our class just recently read Lord of the Flies which is a book that looks at the thinking of mankind. It has an overall negative vibe and was published 1954, this wasn’t long after World War II ended so some of the themes that seem dark in this story are almost justified with all the previous occurrences before it was written. This book has many messages, not just one, but all of which concealed within the text and are usually unforeseen without closer investigation. Most of the messages in the book are concerning social contact and psychological matters, all main factors of human life. The book is set on a secluded island where a plane containing a number of young boys has crashed and left them stranded. One