Lord Of The Flies

The lord of the flies

Lord of the flies is a very meaningful book. It has a lot of meaning to our real life that we live today. The themes of the book are very interesting and have a lot of meaning to them. Some of the really great themes are fear, civilization vs. savagery, loss of innocence and many more.

Fear is something that we don’t want to accept in our lives, but it is still there. It always will be even if you think it is not. Those boys also have a fear. They have a fear of the beast, the adults. The fear leads them to killing because they think it gives them power. They look for the beast that they fear of, but really they fear of themselves, of the beast that is actually in them. That’s what they need to conquer the beast in them and not look for something else. They also have the fear of adults. They want to be powerful and not rule by anyone else. Piggy was the one closest to an adult so they let their all anger on him and treated him really badly, and then they killed him.

Another big theme of the book is Civilization vs. Savagery which in the book associates as civilization being the good and savagery the evil. This is about something that exists in every human being in this world. The instinct to live by the rules and be a good person, always do the right thing. Or they choose to be violent and evil, enforce ones will. The way this is shown in the book is by the boys who are civilized, moral, discipline behavior as they become brutal and barbaric in the jungle. This whole theme mostly adjusts to two boys in the book. Ralph who represents adults, leadership, and good. And there is Jack who represents anger and power and savagery.

As the boys in the book progress from being good children waiting to be rescued to cruel, bloodthirsty hunters who don’t even want to return to civilization. They naturally loose the sense of innocence that they had at the beginning of the novel. The painted savages who hunted tortured and killed animals and people are much different from the kids that they were in the beginning of the book, swimming in the lagoon and stuff. This innocence is not something that someone did to the children it is the results of their increasing openness to the evil and savagery that has always been in them. Civilization can make less, but not