However, social norms, traditions, and customs protect the weaker group. Hence, Piggy remained safe until there were a proper leadership and rule of conch. Yet he is instantly killed when conch becomes an obsolete thing. Relations between human beings is one of the greatest mysteries. This novel shows when relations between human beings degenerates they reach to low-down state. Seeing the corrupt humans, you may want to believe the animals are better.
Jack instantly orders the killing of Piggy when they become two parties, and war for domination ensues. Ralph and Jack are just two boys with normal relations. However, when Jack becomes his enemy, their relationship deteriorates.
This is called dehumanization of relations; both boys turn against each other. It is generally believed that all human beings are good and that vice dominates only during trying circumstances.
However, Lord of the Flies shows a different perspective. It shows that not only human beings are good or bad, but also some have a tendency toward evil or vice such as Jack.
This leads to a total lapse of character if there is no social or legal restriction on humans. This also shows that evil spreads quickly if goodness is not present to obstruct it with the same proportion. Although the theme of a community against an individual is a minor one, it runs throughout the novel. From the very start, when Ralph becomes the leader and Piggy supports him, Jack turns against them. He forms his own group and community of hunters.
Eventually, this community turns against Ralph after killing Piggy. Ralph is left alone and is on the run for his life. It shows how a community persecutes an individual who refuses to conform to destructive rituals. Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive.
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Previous Chapter That's when the next theme starts to emerge. After the very beginning of this popular novel , the theme of civilization versus savagery becomes the predominant theme in Lord of the Flies.
As the story unfolds, the boys leave behind the confines of rules and order, and they grow accustomed to life in the jungle where there are no such prescribed restrictions on behavior. The boys don't all react the same, with a few preferring structure and order, but most coming to quickly adapt to the chaos of the jungle. The message here is that savagery can quickly become the norm in an environment where people are left to their own devices. In other words, civilization is but a thin, tenuous line between the natural savagery that lies within human nature.
Good versus evil is one of the primary themes in Lord of the Flies. In this story, behaviors that align with what would be considered moral in civilized society fall on the side of "good.
There are many examples of both within the book, from the beast warning Simon that what the boys really have to fear is the best that lies within each of them. The boys have long viewed the beast as evil and dangerous, yet what they fear lives within them. Mob mentality is another key theme in Lord of the Flies. This plays out time and time again when the boys get in the habit of acting as a group or pack, as the case may be rather than individually as they become even more savage.
Acting as a unit, they do things that at least some individual members would never do on their own. This first comes up when the boys are chanting and singing about killing the pig early in the story. It continues to come up throughout the book, in more and more sinister ways. It's like the group chant works them into a frenzy so they can act as a unit rather than individuals.
They even paint their faces, as if to hide their individual identities and blend into the mob. As time goes by and their group actions become more and more violent, the mob mentality culminates in the other boys banding together to kill Simon in a very beast-like manner.
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