Lord of the Flies
Human nature is born in all of us, it's constant. It started with the primitive man and Darwin's Theory of Survival of the Fittest. Politics are something that humans created. The whole idea of society has been created by man. The boys in "The Lord of the Flies" have in a sense taken the evolution of man in a backwards manner. They start out civilized English boys and end up turning into the savage primitive man. As hunger and the balance of power changes, their senses become almost inhibited. As soon as the boys hear the conch shell call from Ralph, they come to see who it is. And by Ralph doing this he basically declares himself the leader. Even though there was a formal vote. The boys needed a leader to take order over the group. Ralph assigned jobs for everyone. Which in the sense of politics is a division of labor. There were certain people to hunt, certain people to watch the fire, and certain people to make shelter. These things are basic for survival; shelter, food, and fire to heat the boys and to cook the food. The boys do have two choices of leaders from which to pick from, Ralph and Jack. They vote Ralph as the leader Democratically. The boys at the young age of 6-13 have a sense of how things should be run. Wi
th rules to keep everybody in check. This was obviously learned from their parents. They have to become adults in a very quick manner. And they succeeded quite well at first. As the boys slowly evolve into a more savage society, there is a larger underlying theme in the novel. As the boys on the island are feuding among themselves, there is a war going on in the outside world that they are totally unaware of. A war in which England is a part of. The English are in a war with "the reds" where England has been threatened by atom bombs. Their home civilization is being destroyed and the isolated boys are totally oblivious to the situation. It is also the reason the boys have been shot down in the first place. As the boys struggle with their own civilization, the outside world is also faced with the same conflict. When order and peace is taken over by leadership or power along with violence on the outside, the boys are having the same war. The only difference between the outside war and the boys' war is that the boys seem to move toward the actions of early primitive man, relying on human nature to survive. While the outside world is more worried about boundaries. Through the novel Ralph is seen as the Democratic
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England English, Naval Officer, Ralph Jack, Ralph Ralph, Lord Flies, Leaving Ralph, That's Jack, Ralph Piggy, , Fittest Politics, human nature, conch shell, boys savage, outside world, jack boys, power violence, ralph leader, feel protected, boys beast,
Approximate Word count = 824
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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