Lord of the Flies
In the Lord of the Flies, a movie based on the novel by William Golding, a group of young, pre-adolescent boys are shipwrecked on an island, and they are on their own to fend for themselves. It would make the most sense for these boys to work together as a survival strategy until they are rescued, but that concept is overlooked by the majority of them. A strong message is conveyed to the viewer about the raw, instinctual nature of human beings. The main characters of the movie are Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon. Ralph is nominated the chief in the beginning. He has a good head on his shoulders, and he attempts to get everybody to work together to get food and shelter. He tries to convince the other boys that it is not the time to be goofing around, and that they should be working hard as a group if they're going to survive. Jack is a rather outspoken boy, who motto is "my way or the highwa
Jack cuts the head off of a wild pig and stakes it into the ground in front of the cave with a stick. Golding is sending the message that when the confines of civilization and rules slip away, humans resort to primitivism. If the importance of moral behavior is not stressed and exercised, these situations could become real with no effort at all. I don't think this story is far-fetched, and I can see how things like this could realistically come about. When they see Simon running down the beach toward them, they start chanting, "The beast! The beast!" and the group charges at him and stabs him to death with their spears. He eventually convinces the other boys to join him, and they become a savage tribe on a different part of the island. Simon goes to the cave, and he finds out the "beast" is actually the only adult that survived the wreck. He runs back to Jack's camp, where Ralph and Piggy are, to tell them what he has found. Piggy is a short, fat kid that gets picked on by all the other boys. He's the only one who sticks by Ralph throughout their stay on the island, and is apathetically killed in the end by one of Jack's followers. When there is no one to uphold moral behavior, people feel no moral responsibility. The "thing" becomes known as the beast. He's the only one with glasses, which are the only source for successfully building a fire for signaling and cooking. Simon is a quiet boy, who doesn't have a whole lot to say throughout the entire movie.
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