Lord of the flies

'The Lord of the Flies' - Savagery


William Golding¡¯s novel ¡®The Lord of The flies¡¯ presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island, left to try and retain a civilised society. In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes.
At the opening of the novel, Ralph and Jack get on extremely well. We are informed Jack, ¡°shared his burden,¡± and there was an, ¡°invisible light of friendship,¡± between the two boys. Jack changes considerably throughout this novel. At first he tells us, ¡°I agree with Ralph we¡¯ve got to have rules and obey them,¡± This shows us that at the beginning of the novel, just like Ralph, he wants to uphold a civilised society. We are also notified, ¡°Most powerfully there was the conch.¡± As the conch represents democracy we can see that at the beginning of the novel the boys sustain a powerful democratic society.
This democratic soc...