Lord Of The Flies Alienation

Mankind tends to take advantage of situations presented before them, although this should lead to positive results, that is not always the case.. When first alienated from society, man has many negative feelings, but as man gets over those feelings, it realizes that the alienation is a new way to start afresh since there is nobody stopping him/her from doing anything. In Lord of the Flies, the character Ralph says “Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.” For a child, a way to start afresh is to become one of their childhood heroes (like superman), which can be done by pretending to be them while playing. Ralph has basically the same idea; he wants to have fun, which to a child would mean playing a game GET THAT SECONDARY SOURCE,
These people have different feelings when alienated, predominantly fear. When alienated, man tends to imagine its fears in real forms because in their subconscious they know that there is nobody to protect them if their fears become reality. As INSERT NAME HERE states “An imagined presence… externalize evil, rather than face inner darkness and dread.” For the boys in Lord of the Flies, the beast is their way of expressing the evil they feel emerging within themselves due to the thought process change because of their alienation from society. Without the grownups to protect them, they become extremely afraid of this internal fear that has been put into a real form. It is just like a child who is afraid of the dark. They are not afraid of the dark itself, they are afraid of being alone in the dark. These irrational fears that man develops further deteriorates their mind, as they start having irrational thoughts. In LOTF, Simon’s internal fear of evil and irrational fear of the beast lead to him hallucinating, thinking a pig’s head on a stick as the Lord of the Flies. Hallucination is just one effect irrational fears have on man, another being extreme paranoia. For example, it you were isolated into a space with even a suspicion that there is something you fear in the space, for this example, let’s say it is spiders, you would be constantly looking all
When man is separated from something as big in their life as society, it tries to find a way to stay connected, and to ease the distance between man and society, man can create a society in the place that is alienated man from it. For example, throughout CHAPTER 2 of Lord of the Flies, the boys create a democratic society, much like the society they came from. Man attempts to create a society for the reason to keep them sane, as they were when they were integrated into society. That is because man is born uncivilized, as INSERT NAME HERE states “In parts… an uncivilized brute”. People, who are born civilized, are put into check by civilization, and without civilization to keep man civilized, it is easy to turn back to our uncivilized roots. This pattern is seen throughout Lord of the Flies, as people like Jack, who bragged about the group being English, and eventually turned into a complete savage. Furthermore, because man is born uncivilized, and being civilized is a task that is fully mastered after years, it can be concluded that people who are young are not as civilized as their older brothers and sisters. Even though people may attempt to create a society, it is very likely to fall. As INSERT NAME HERE states “The right to speak leads to idle talk…first unfaithful to itself.” The basis of civilization is made by listening to others, and the boys in the novel completely neglect what