Lord of the Flies Theme?

Question

William Golding once said that the theme of Lord of the Flies is “an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable…” How does he show this in the book? Do you agree? Why or who not?

Answer 1

Golding was a product of his Christian culture, a culture based on the morbid concepts of "original sin" and humans are fundamentally bad and weak. Within those concepts, a group of children stranded on an island without the controls of established law and order and Church would fall into their "natural" savagery. In truth, a group of children stranded on an island, per actual research, does not behave like savages but, instead, rise rather well and prove that humans do very well in the "goodness" department without law and church to "keep them in line".

Answer 2

yes, i agree. in the book the character themselves represent different aspect of society.
the people put in charge let the power of authority go to their heads and they abused the trust of the group and the power that was given them.
the island itself is like a little society representing all aspects from good to bad.

jack of course if the savage
piggie is intelligent
Ralph is a democratic type person
Simon is the representing of all good
roger is his opposite is the representative of all evil
the beast they kill is the evil in everyone

Answer 3

lack of innocence is definitely a important topic in this e book. each and every of the characters represent this topic. yet another topic might want to be civilization vs. savagery or anarchy which lower back, all characters represent.

Answer 4

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