Savagery In Lord Of The Flies Essay

“Explain how the killing of the pigs charts the hunters’ decline into total savagery.”
‘Lord of the Flies’ is a fictional novel by author William Golding. Golding’s main focus in this novel is a conflict between the desire toward civilization and the instinct towards savagery that rages inside each mortal. Each of the main characters in the novel embodies a certain aspect of this gauge between civilization and savagery. For example Ralph, represents the civilized impulse, as he attempts to create order among the boys and to establish a working society on the island. Piggy, represents the logical aspects of civilization, and at the other side of the gauge is Jack. Jack embodies the longing of savagery and the craving for power and domination.
In Chapter three they had an opportunity to leave the island, but Jack didn’t take it by letting the signal fire go out. While trapped on the island they build huts and had people stationed on the mountain to keep the signal fire burning. Keep the fire burning was one of Ralph’s only rules. Jack and his group left the fire unattended to go hunting and tragically the fire went out while they were off hunting and a ship sailed past the island. When Jack’s group returned to the beach Ralph told them that they had doomed all of the boys but telling them “You let the fire go out.” Over and over. …show more content…
“Jack transferred the knife to his left hand and smudged blood over his forehead as he pushed down his plastered hair.” The cruel slaughters of the pigs got worse and worse, and Jack’s enjoyment increased. For example when Jack repeatedly brags that he stuck his spear “right up her ass.” The pig might have already been dead when he did this but it was a truly awful thing to do to the animal, and the only thing that made it worse was the strange amount of pleasure he got from

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