Savage Vs Savage Quotes

When you’re pushed to the limit anyone can become savage. An example of this is Lord Of The Flies. For almost the whole book the kids were trying to find the Beast. They would look around the whole island and would never find it. But the whole time no one would notice how savage they were acting. The boys are acting very savage, murdering and abusing others, spend time debating whether the beast is real or not, not knowing that it’s inside them all along.
It is clear that the boys on the island are savage, as evidenced by murdering people, raping, and abusing others; everyone did one of these three things at least one time throughout the book. As time went on in the island the kids were starting to become more and more savage, especially Jack. One example would be when he killed the poor Sow. You would think that he will kill it fast to put it out of it’s misery, but no. As stated in the text, “Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife” (Golding 135). This quote shows the abuse that is happening to the poor sow. Jack and the other kids are beating it up and letting it bleed out. They’re stabbing it and Roger even inserts his spear in it as deep as he can just to hear it scream. This is both abuse and murder at the highest extent. The sow is not the only thing on the island they murder
They actually create the beast which is living inside them the whole time. This is because gruesome things happen on the island: Simon gets murdered, the savages abuse the poor sow, and even ralph acknowledges that the beast is actually themselves. This shows that anyone can be pushed to become savage and even become a beast themselves. At the beginning of the novel, who would’ve thought that Ralph, the head of the choir, would become savage. It can be a rich kid that goes to a private school or just a regular old kid that owns a farm. The beast can become anyone if pushed enough to the