You crawl out of the crashed plane. Look around you. You´re standing on a land that is surrounded by water. You are on an island. On a deserted island. No food, no water and no grownups to help you. The only thing you have are the other schoolboys, who were on the plane with you.
That was a brief glimpse into how it might have been for the boys in the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, when they first found out that they were stranded alone on an island.
A plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain, was shot down on a deserted island alone in the midst of a raging war. There were between 20 and 30 boys, ranging in age from 6 to 12 years. How should they be able to take care of each other and themselves without any grownups? Would they even be able to survive on this island for more than a few days?
Civilization versus savagery is a big conflict and one of the main themes that are explored in “Lord of the Flies”. Ralph are representing civilization with self-control in the way he always tries to keep everybody and everything under control. He was also chosen as the leader by the schoolboys, so he makes rules to ensure their survival. However, Jack represent the savagery because he loses his ability to remain civilized, and it generates his innate savagery in which he´s trying to minimize the rules of civilization to be the most powerful on the island. Roger is also representing savagery, because he killed Piggy, who was representing civilization like Ralph, because he realized that nobody could limit his cruelty, while they were stuck on the island.
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