If u have read "Lord of the Flies" can u answer this.?

Question

Do u think that society confines and/or frees the individual from tyranny of irrationality and disorder. If so please explain and just say an example from Lord of the Flies.

Answer 1

Sounds like an essay question that was assigned in your English class.

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Answer 2

When I first read Lord of the Flies I gleened a different meaning than I now have. It seemed to be saying that these boys, when left to govern themselves, reverted to barbarism implying that people are naturally evil or at least have the seed of evil in them and that the purpose of civilization is to control or maintain order in what would otherwise be chaos.

But after further evaluation what I realized is that these were not boys as nature intended them but rather victims of a strict and rigid disciplinary system of punishment and a breaking down of the self worth in order to achieve subordination to authority, which I have come to understand through much study of psychology, has a negative effect in that it does not teach morals or compassion as it should but rather, punishment strips the subject of responsibility for his/her actions and leaves the subject unable to govern themselves without the deterrent of fear of punishment. So in fact, this was the message behind Lord of the Flies. That the rigid militaristic upbringing these children had been given did not impart them with the ability to govern themselves peacefully and reasonably, but rather, yielded the cruel barbarians depicted at the end of the story.

Answer 3

I think a social system frees us from tyranny by imposing limits, which is what the boys lacked and why they became savages In Lord of the Flies. Within a society, we must answer to rules and not allow mere survival of the strongest which can be misconstrued as the fittest, when it is clearly not in the best interest of all.

Answer 4

I think that conformity social influence is the changes that takes place when the individual decides to go in the ways of the crowd, usually if people have an influence on a person.(social influence) They can influence the individuals to conduct variant behavior in their actions which may be dangerously and unlike their status meaning that they can make the person do things that they want the individual to do.
This is what comes to the point of the cryptoamnesia. The fear in the effect of being left out forces the person to move in the ways desirable of the crowd to regain strength in numbers. That could be due to the lack of support and mental foundation.
When the boulder that was intended for Ralph crushes and rolls Piggy off of the cliff. It was due to the situation caused by the inbalance in the crowd and for the fact that many people in the group misliked Piggy, and thought of him as being

Answer 5

The lesson of the L o t F is that human nature in all its cruelty, irrationality and disorder, takes over when the veneer of civilization is removed.

The boys demonstrate that, rather than Rousseau's "noble savage", natures revert to the primitive lives of Hobbes, "brutal, bloody, and short".