Lord of the Flies

Human nature is born in all of us, it’s constant. It started with the primitive man and Darwin’s Theory of Survival of the Fittest. Politics are something that humans created. The whole idea of society has been created by man. The boys in “The Lord of the Flies” have in a sense taken the evolution of man in a backwards manner. They start out civilized English boys and end up turning into the savage primitive man. As hunger and the balance of power changes, their senses become almost inhibited.
As soon as the boys hear the conch shell call from Ralph, they come to see who it is. And by Ralph doing this he basically declares himself the leader. Even though there was a formal vote. The boys needed a leader to take order over the group. Ralph assigned jobs for everyone. Which in the sense of politics is a division of labor. There were certain people to hunt, certain people to watch the fire, and certain people to make shelter. These things are basic for survival; shelter, f...