The novel, Lord of the Flies, was written by William Golding. William Golding was born on September 19, 1911. His literary ambitions began at the young age of seven. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University in 1935. His novels explore characters and situations. In Lord of the Flies, it is a time of war. A group of English schoolboys are on a plane, when they are attacked and they have to evacuate their aircraft. They find themselves on a remote island, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, without any adult supervision. A boy named Ralph takes charge and forms a crude society, with a democratic type of government. Then, a boy named Jack decides to break off and form his own society, with him being the leader, governing with a dictatorship type of government, causing Ralph's society to crumble and fall apart. William Golding believed that the defects of a society could be traced back to the flaws of the human nature. These societies were very diffe
Jack's society was very different from Ralph's. He was the dictator and the members of his society had to do what he commanded. One of his flaws was that he had no respect for his society. He was disorganized and did not keep track of things. Something could have happened in his society, causing harm to the people in it. An example of this was when they had a fire for cooking the meat and he did not take care of it so it went out of control. He did not make rules or give anyone any responsibilities. His people would get lazy and irresponsible. Jack had no objective. This caused his society to not have a goal also. All they wanted to do was hunt. Jack was too aggressive. The people of his society were too scared to have their own opinion. Jack wanted to have fun, and that was all he wanted. This made his society centered around having fun and avoiding responsibility. Another member affected the society was Roger. Roger was the executioner. The whole society feared him and they did
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