Lord of the Flies Speech

Good morning Ms Barr and fellow students, I will be speaking about the ways in which the novel Lord Of The Flies by William Golding illustrates that human experience, attitudes and values are shaped by their environment.

These thoughts are conveyed through the boys who are abandoned on an island after their plane crashes while evacuating from England during WWI. Golding tries to shows us that when humans are left in the natural environment, their attitudes and values will change, as they do not have the rules and regulations of society inflicting on their actions.

Golding uses his characters very effectively. The two sides of man’s personality are represented by Jack and Piggy. Jack represents the evil side of man. He is the leading advocate of anarchy on the island and is the leader of the savage group that hunts the pigs. Jack is the kind of person which Golding believed everyone would eventually become if left alone to set one’s own standards and live the way one naturall...