does anyone know the theme of the book Lord of The Flies?

Question

and what are the reasons you think so?

Answer 1

The theme is that human nature is savage, and that order in society is needed to control people in order to have a just civilization. This is demonstrated throughout the book because once the kids realize no adults are present (adults represent imposition of order), then they go completely crazed.

Answer 2

I read the Lord of the Flies a few years ago, but I was too lazy to put it into words so I cheated and found a web site:

Lord of the Flies has more than one “theme,” or meaning, but the overall and most important one is that the conditions of life within society are closely related to the moral integrity of its individual members. In Golding’s own words:

The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable. The whole book is symbolic in nature except the rescue in the end where adult life appears, dignified and capable, but in reality enmeshed in the same evil as the symbolic life of the children on the island. The officer, having interrupted a manhunt, prepares to take the children off the island in a cruiser, which will presently be hunting its enemy in the same implacable way. And who will rescue the adult and his cruiser?

A very thought provoking book.

Answer 3

When "MAN" seek Power & Rule over others,the extent
of the the insanity they are willing to mock up,is without limit.
And shows cause & effect of such action.The Results or the the "Mechanics"of such action remains the same if it's one or two men or nation to nation.

Answer 4

We are naturally uncivilised and will revert to savages given the slightest opportunity

Answer 5

Anarchy.