Friendship, hatred, fear, and social organization issues are the ideas that run through the novel Lord of the Flies. A catastrophe resulting from which a group of boys, without any adults, ends up on a desert island has two potential scenarios. The first defines teenagers’ behavior as remaining human and decent. The second is that the boys eliminate the burden of civilization, which forces them to run wild, forgetting about values and discipline. The story’s main idea is that the extreme conditions in which the boys occurred showed their actual life goals and values.
Jack is the head of the church choir, but his faith is feigned, false, as evidenced by his other behavior. He and his ensemble, dressed in majestic black cloaks, are symbolically represented by the elite. The island exposed the evil that hides in each of the boys, and that same Beast broke out. Ralph is the personification of order, holding on to civilization. Like Piggy, he spent the entire time on the island in old clothes, even though they were all torn on him (Golding 26). It is another detail that distinguishes them from the hunters. However, in the book, Ralph’s human personality is tested for strength: fighting savages for his life, he forgets about the human in himself, becoming like the rest. The child of science in Lord of the Flies is Piggy. This boy is short-sighted because he looks only at science and does not believe in monsters from a scientific point of view, but he firmly believes in civilization (Golding 30). In other words, the characters’ personalities and their lives before the incident on the island affected their behavior and defined their goals and role distribution.
Therefore, the goal of Ralph was to stay true to humanity and not succumb to violence. At the same time, Jack and his followers obeyed the evil before and during the event. They behave according to their ideals and goals. Such a plot shows that the behavioral reaction of people to particular events (both regular and extreme) depends on their character traits and the strength of their personalities.
Work Cited
Golding, William. Wuthering Heights. Faber & Faber, 1997.