2006-07-10 09:45:58 · 32 answers · asked by nicky 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Human nature tends toward the selfish and evil. Two of the boys stood for fairness and cooperation, while the rest fell one after another into barbarism until they murdered one of the "good" children and hunted the other. One of the characters says something like, "Why did it go wrong? We did everything the grownups would do!" Well, they did EXACTLY what grownups do, divide into factions and attempt to destroy the opposition.
2006-07-10 09:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by carpetao 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Authority
2006-07-10 09:47:39 · answer #2 · answered by Will the Thrill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the "plot"? If so, it's about kids that get stranded on an island and after a while they start to go crazy and they use an animal head as their "idol" and it is covered with flies..hence, "lord of the flies"
2006-07-10 09:48:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Succinctly, Civilized humanity(represented by school boys) when placed in a structureless, non-governized society(the wild island), do not express their freedom by becoming a miniture replica of modern society with rules and lawyers et al, but revert to a society where might makes right and a pecking order of power evolves with the toughest, strongest kid at the top. The author (Golding) is saying ... weakness flourishes in modern societies, because of our morality, yet this morality is nothing more than a thin veneer under which lies our truer savage nature,
2006-07-10 10:08:24 · answer #4 · answered by RenoDeano 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The novel "Lord of the Flies" follows a group of children on their way back from (or on their way to) a private school. They are on a small plane that crash-lands on an island where they are deserted and left to fend for themselves.
The theme is... i forget, quit wasting time online and read it. (Gawd damn, doesn't anyone read anymore).
2006-07-10 09:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by sierrasurfer3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about a very ambitious fly who wanted to rule all the other flies. Hence the title! A bit like the One Ring!
2006-07-10 09:48:23 · answer #6 · answered by Rhapsody 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I remember correctly - It's pretty much about how quickly and thouroughly humanity can be discarded...
The boys on the island basically descended to the level of animals without basic rules to live by - desperate people engaging in war and greed and strife....
Dunno - it's been a good ten years :)
2006-07-10 09:52:31 · answer #7 · answered by nowyermessingwithasonofabitch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the flies? Isn't that one of those funny things called books that make ideas pop in to your head? Oh, I forgot, you can't read, can you?
Do you ever answer your own homework?
2006-07-10 09:50:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Evil Inherent in Man
2006-07-10 09:50:16 · answer #9 · answered by Ruki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The animalization of the human nature.
A group of boys are shipwrecked on an island. They divide into "clans" and they start a war...
Good novel. Good movie.
2006-07-10 09:47:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋