Ignorance In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

When you walk outside in the morning you probably see husbands opening doors for their wives or a similar scenario, right? What you don’t see are the hundreds of people shooting each other for little reason if any. Sure, there are people shooting others in wars to distribute human rights to a larger population or shooting criminals for self-defense or the defense of others, but there are still those that kill for no reason, or a dumb reason, at all. British author William Golding saw examples of this in World War II and decided to write his magnum opus Lord of the Flies based on this problem by giving the example of kids, each one resembling a part of the human subconscious, stranded on an unsettled island. Those kids first formed a semi-functioning society, but got torn apart and split up by a rebellious member of the group who resembled the most savage and primal part of the human soul. It is obvious from this
If you lose one of your senses, such as sight, you become more ignorant. That ignorance could make a situation in which you are in a panic even worse, which could drive you to do things you wouldn’t normally do in order to survive. In “Lord of the Flies is still a blueprint for savagery” by Eleanor Learmonth and Jenny Tabakoff, the crewmembers on the Medusa, a small, raft-like boat started to uncontrollably tear each other apart at nightfall. Dozens of people were dying one way or another each night. Another example from that same article was that of the Belgica trapped in the Antarctic ice. When one man died, the others started acting more and more insane, telling themselves that the darkness had hastened his death. Even the cat started acting strangely. An example from LOTF would be “the beast,” which doesn’t actually take on a physical form, but is rather the darkness or the fear itself, which is driving the boys to the madness which would lead to a number of