Lord Of The Flies Masks Analysis
A mask is an item that is used to hide emotion. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys stuck on the island use masks to hide their emotions. They all go through a rollercoaster of emotions but they all fear that showing the emotions will destroy them. Golding uses the masks to symbolize that the boys are hiding behind something to show that they are truly good and no evil can become of them. A mask is used on all of the boys to hide their primitive stage that they are feeling. The boys use “masks” to become a full savage, which is what they are yearning to become. Jack and the choir use the masks to hunt, giving them the full capability to kill an something innocent and helpless. As Jack and the rest of the hunters started to
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The hunters believed that with the masks they could do anything. Jack thought that the paint bounded the boys together as one. The boys soon became less civil and more of a savage. ¨The movement became regular while the chant lost its first superficial excitement and began to beat like a steady pulse”(pg 152). Jack and his fellow ¨followers” banded together to kill what they thought was a beast. This paint bonded them together to not even realize who or what they were harming. Their chants that they started off for an innocent pig, soon became the chant of death for Simon, their friend and sense of goodness they had left on the island. This mask that they were hidden behind caused a mob mentality, meaning that once the start chanting and keeping the paint on, it´s hard for Jack and the rest to stop. Ralph, Piggy and Samneric knew what the paint had done to the rest of the boys. They saw how it harmed more than it helped. As tension are rising between the savages and the civilized, Ralph needed what Jack took from them. It was a hard decision for him to make but he needed to enter Jacks territory. ¨Well, we won´t be painted, because we aren't savages¨(pg 172). Ralph knew that because they had not been painted, they were not going to lose their sense of hope, and were not afraid to show fear. If they entered the savages area, they would try and harm the civilized ones badly. If they put the masks on, Ralph knew they could never go back to their normal life once they entered in with the
The hunters believed that with the masks they could do anything. Jack thought that the paint bounded the boys together as one. The boys soon became less civil and more of a savage. ¨The movement became regular while the chant lost its first superficial excitement and began to beat like a steady pulse”(pg 152). Jack and his fellow ¨followers” banded together to kill what they thought was a beast. This paint bonded them together to not even realize who or what they were harming. Their chants that they started off for an innocent pig, soon became the chant of death for Simon, their friend and sense of goodness they had left on the island. This mask that they were hidden behind caused a mob mentality, meaning that once the start chanting and keeping the paint on, it´s hard for Jack and the rest to stop. Ralph, Piggy and Samneric knew what the paint had done to the rest of the boys. They saw how it harmed more than it helped. As tension are rising between the savages and the civilized, Ralph needed what Jack took from them. It was a hard decision for him to make but he needed to enter Jacks territory. ¨Well, we won´t be painted, because we aren't savages¨(pg 172). Ralph knew that because they had not been painted, they were not going to lose their sense of hope, and were not afraid to show fear. If they entered the savages area, they would try and harm the civilized ones badly. If they put the masks on, Ralph knew they could never go back to their normal life once they entered in with the