The Lord Of The Flies: A New Society

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A New Society What happens when a cluster of young kids are together stuck on an unknown island? Where can they reach for help? How will they survive? Will they ever have the courage to stick together to create their “own society”? In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, tells about how a groups of young children fight to live a life on their own to create a new society by themselves. Throughout the novel, Golding associates the instincts with good and evil nature of human beings, using the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke. In the novel, Golding shows the conflict between civilization and the fundamental instincts of evil. First of all, piggy has no savage feelings; he is an intellectual boy who…show more content…
When the children found the Lord of the Flies, not only did they use it in a harmful way, Jack, put the head on the stake in the forest as an offering to the beast where he says, “This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.” (137). Another event was when Roger killed Piggy. Roger was evidently mean from the beginning, and because of what had happened from their new “society”, Roger has changed dramatically form the cruelest kid to a murderer. Another character, Simon, also changes when he controls the pig’s head in the glade which shows that even good natured people also has an evil side to them. A philosopher that shows all of the characters is Jean-Jacques Rousseau where he said, “man is essentially good, the state of all of the other animals, and the condition man was in before the creation of civilization and society, and that good people are made unhappy, and corrupted by their experiences in society”. This quote tells that people change by living in a different society and a different living system then…show more content…
Lord of the Flies. New York, 1954 Websites 1. Chew, Robin. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher.” 1998. 1995-2006<http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jun/rousseau.html> 2. “John Locke”. 2006. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke> 3. Kermerling, Garth. “ Hobbes’s Leviathan.” 2001. 1997-2002
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