Lord of the Flies
When I was younger, my friends and I used to play "King of the Hill." Every day during recess we trooped over to this large pile of woodchips near the edge of the playground. On that mound we kicked and pinched and tugged hair in order to get to-and remain on-the top of the small mountain, and thus earn the title "King of the Hill." As early grade school became late grade school this game was phased out-the popularity contests and social wars of pre-adolescence slowly began to replace our beloved throne on top of the woodchips, and instead we resorted to the same means (kicking, pinching, hair pulling) to become most popular. My question is this: By what grounds do you determine most popular? And have you ever noticed that the "King of the Hill" is inevitably pushed off within a matter of minutes? So let's view the island in Lord of the Flies as a pile of woodchips for a moment. Have you ever noticed that the boys' "leader" never stays leader for very long? Through out society and the history of the human race there have been numerous revolutions and assassinations. There is a never-ending struggle to reign as "King of the Hill." But are these boys just being immature? Would different castaways have handled the situa
There would already be some sort of leadership established, and there would be some method in building a fire, a shelter, hunting. Parents would take care of children. Now imagine a group of adults, mixed gender, on the same island. The four men did not sit in their seats and avoid the situation and confronting the terrorists, nor did they rush the knife bearers without thinking and get themselves killed. What would the initial reaction be? Terror, obviously-but what else? Would adults immediately scale the mountain and confront the beast at the top, or would they circle the entire island first? Most adults probably have the ability to sit down and think rationally in a situation of panic. I don't think that a group of girls would have danced circles around a pig head and worshipped it, either. I think that adults stranded on the island would have more concern for what was proper and how they should act. Finally, picture your family stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere. There would probably be more of an internal struggle involved in the act of actually killing something (like a pig). After all, part of the reason the boys elect a leader is because they feel it's what they should do, what would be expected of them. Maybe one of them, after several months of no meat, gets tired of eating a diet solely composed of fruit, and goes off to hunt a pig. Adults would put an excessive amount of effort into this specific thought pattern and worrying about how to remain civilized. The only reaction that the adults could have (without proving humans completely barbaric and uncivilized) would be to find out as much about the beast as possible and decide how to act from there. I think the girls would be much more likely to divide into smaller groups and form alliances, but one prevalent leader would not required, and neither would sacrifices to a pig.
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