Isolation In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding: Character Analysis

How does isolation from society affect a human being? Society molds people to have specific beliefs and rules. As a human begins to build a life in their society, they abide by the rules and adopt the customs. What happens when a human has never been exposed to the customs? What happens when a human has been taken out of society after knowing the customs? In real life, there has been actual situations of children being kept from society. The children are called feral or wild because they are out of the ordinary to the so called normal people. Feral children have always been isolated from society. Using some theories from the feral children, myths, and his own ideas, William Golding wrote the novel Lord of the Flies. He depicts a group of boys
As the story progressed, the filth grew and the boys no longer cared about keeping things orderly and clean. They practically did what they wanted whenever they felt the need to do it. Ralph, the leader, was first to notice the filth and said “We chose those rocks right along beyond the bathing pool as a lavatory. That was sensible too. The tide cleans the place up” (80). In the beginning, the boys were still influenced by their society. They were used to having one specific place to use the restroom. If they did not use the restroom in the designated area, then they would face consequences. Since they were influenced by society they chose to keep the same rules. On the island there are no adults to enforce the rules only other children who are not much older than each other. Therefore, the rules were not taken seriously. The little children who were referred to as littluns had less society influence than the others so the rules were abolished quicker by them. Ralph spoke during their assembly and said “Now people seem to use anywhere. Even near the shelters and the platform...That’s dirty!” (80). Ralph has not been fully taken over by the savage ways, so he found the littluns ways to be unsanitary and disgusting. Doing their business everywhere was considered unsanitary. One feral child named Genie had the same issue. She was not toilet trained when she was found. Even though she spent most of her time tied to a child’s toilet, she was not trained on when to use the bathroom. At times she would sit in her own feces. The same goes for the feral child Danielle. She was kept in diapers for six years. Both girls had no idea when the appropriate times to use the bathroom were. After being rescued from their isolated environments, both girls were taught how to use the bathroom. When the girls were first found, they were bedraggled in their environments full of cockroaches, feces spread onto