Savageness In Lord Of The Flies

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The Acts of Savageness through Change Since the beginning of time, people question how drastically a person can change when put in a certain situation. They can lie about themselves to fit in and even Lose track of who they are. Everyone has their own point in change and how often it affects people’s lives. Change can be good or bad. When it is bad, it can harm others in the most dramatic ways. In the novel the Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, Ralph goes through three main changes in his experience on the island. He goes through physical change, personality change and change of care. Ralph starts caring less and less about his physical appearance. He soon starts to look like he is losing his civilization and becoming …show more content…
All Ralph cares about is being rescued from the island. To do so, the boys start a fire in order to get a smoke signal for passing boats, but as the boys get robbed, the fire goes out. When Piggy’s specs are stolen, instead of feeding the fire, then going to get the glasses back, Ralph and Piggy automatically want to go and demand for the specs back, “they stole it and the signal’s out and we can’t ever be rescued” (Golding 170). Ralph is not being civilized when it comes to the fire because if he was smart he would keep the fire running. Then he can go and ask for the specs back instead of letting the fire die and acting like a savage to get the specs back. Once Ralph lost the kids respect, he lost care for them and having fun like he used to. When the boys were scared of the beast, Ralph just “laughed, and the other boys laughed with him” (Golding 35). Instead of being a good leader and trying to keep things civilized by helping the kids, he just laughs. The littluns are scared and need a leader, but Ralph just laughs, showing he is changing to his savage ways. Soon, Ralph loses his tribe and care for the fire. He tests if all the boys have gone savage. To do this, he blows the conch to see if the boys will come meet him; if they do not, he wants to stop caring for the fire. Ralph just wants to follow the other boys and be like them …show more content…
Ralph did not want to go hunting, but then he realized the boys needed meat. So he agrees to go hunting with Jack and his choir. On the hunt Ralph hits a boar in the snout and is ecstatic about it. Once the boys return from hunting, Ralph starts to tell everyone how he hit a boar and is very proud of it. Soon enough, he thought that “hunting was good after all” (Golding 113). Ralph had hit the boar and enjoyed the rush of hunting. After one hunt, he loses his civilization by enjoying the death of an animal, becoming more savage. Later, Jack and all the other boys are making multiple hunting chants, “Kill the beast, cut his throat, spill his blood!” (Golding 152). Ralph and Piggy are not joining the hunting chant even though Ralph thinks he deserves to be because he has gone hunting with the other boys. Soon Ralph starts to enjoy the chanting, so he joins in. Ralph is enjoying himself, but soon the boys start to act the hunt out. Roger gets in the middle and pretends to be the pig, while all the other boys start hitting him and are actually harming him. Ralph joins in because even though he knows hunting is bad for him, he still wants to have fun. He was having fun, but doing the wrong thing, “Ralph…eager to take place in this demented but partly secure society” (Golding 152). Ralph joins because it looks fun and thinks that he has respect from the hunters