Return of Savagery
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A group of schoolboys abandoned on an island are forced to survive without adult supervision, where the boys' descent into chaos, disorder, and evil flourish. With out laws or adults to guide them their civilized ways deteriorate and they return back to the Earth. Lord of the Flies is a compelling novel written by William Golding in 1954 shows that with extreme isolation from society savagery is born. Man is inherently tied to society, and without it, society would likely return to savagery and destruction just as the boys have.
Initially the boys attempt to organize themselves to mimic the society of England, only to transform into a more primitive life dominated by the thirst for blood, cruelty, aggression and savagery. At the opening of the novel, Ralph and Jack get along as well as two strangers possibly could. There was an invisible light of friendship between the two boys only in the sake of democracy and civilization. Ralph reveals an avid desire to be chief when he lifts the conch and tells the boys, "Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things"(Golding 19). Jack changes considerably throughout his time on the island away from society. At first he tells us, "I agree with Ralph we've got to have rules and obey them...