Lord of the Flies

The theme is an attempt to trace the fault of society back to the faults of human nature. When they voted for Ralph to be the leader of the group, Jack became very angry, jealous and rebellious. Ralph decided to build a fire to signal the boats and he put Jack in charge of keeping the fire going. Instead of watching the fire, Jack went to hunt a wild pig. This shows rebellion and wanting to fulfill our own desires and needs. A boat happened to pass by when the fire was out , this caused much grief and pain and more seperation of the group.

The Lord of the Flies takes place on a deserted Island in the Pacific around the time of World War II.

The setting is a way to compare how the boys wickedness is like the wickedness in the world and mankind in general. World War II was going on around the island shown by the fact that fighter planes battle above the island. The war on the island is just a model of the larger war that is going on all over the world during the story. The war on th

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Roger appears to know exactly what evil he is doing and does not care. Jack and his choir boys, who are presented as an army have no respect for Ralph’s government at all. Ralph is the symbol of good, while Jack is the symbol of evil. He is the perpetrator of all three deaths that occur on the island and wishes to spend his time hunting (killing) instead of helping Ralph with rescue. This can be seen by the fact that Ralph is the one providing law and order. Examples of these conflicts are conflicts between the conch group and the savages, between the boys and the terrifying beast and conflict between Jack’s choir on the one hand and Ralph and Simon on the other. As chief, he knows right from wrong. Throughout the novel he is constantly making common sense rules for the boys to follow. They could not work together for example they could not share Piggy’s glasses for lighting fires when they were apart. In the end, when it is destroyed, authority on the island is gone and Ralph is left to fend for himself. The boys themselves are representations of different ways of life, the intellectual, the adventurer, the bully, the torturer-so as to give the impression of diversity that is found in an actual society. The boys that join Jack’s army do it because they get to hunt pigs and they don’t have to work.

Ralph represents law, order, organized society and moral integrity. Jack did not have the integrity to keep the Beast at bay.

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Approximate Word count = 793
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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