Lord of the Flies

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Lord of the Flies

• Spiro

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The Lord of the Flies says that every society has
a mixture of good and bad in fact, it is
impossible for a society to exist without both.
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Synopsis

• Kids deserted on island
• No adults
• Try to establish society
• Some break off to start tribe
• Kids become increasingly violent/savage
• Saved in the end at height of savagery

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Themes

• Civil vs. Savage
• Chaos vs. Order
• Good vs. Evil

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Civil vs. Savage

• Symbols
• Pig hunting
• Dance ritual
• Huts
• Rocks
• Face Paint
• Jack was liberated from the shame of self
  consciousness by using the face paint (64).

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Chaos vs. Order

• Symbols
• Conch
• Fire
• Piggys glasses
• Meetings
• The thing we need is an assembly (78).

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Good vs. Evil

• Symbols
• The Lord of the Flies
• Jack vs. Ralph
• The Beast
• What I mean ismaybe the beasts only us (89).

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Characters

• Four main characters
• Ralph
• Jack
• Simon
• Piggy

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Ralph

• Good leader
• Puts needs of group ahead of own
• Represents order, civility, and good.
• Id like to put on war-paint and be a savage,
  But we must keep the fire going (142).

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Jack

• Tyrannical leader
• Selfish
• Represents evil
• Together with Ralph, shows the two extremes of
  leadership. The point is that a society needs
  both to be successful.
• His mind was crowded with memoriesknowledge
  that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed
  their will upon it, taken away its life (98).

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Simon

• Helps all of the kids
• Common sense
• Represents innocence
• Shows that innocence and common sense is
  underrated in society.
• Simon found for them the fruit they could not
  reach, pulled off the choicestpassed them back
  down to the littluns (56).

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Piggy

• Intelligent, but lazy
• Socially inept
• Represents intelligence and technology
• Shows that technology alone helps society, but is
  not an integral part of it.
• Lifeis scientific, thats what it is (84).

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Conclusion

• Society will always have
• Chaos and Order
• Good and Evil
• Civility and Savagery
• Society can try to mask true human nature, but it
  will never go away.
• Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could
  hunt and kill (143).