Mob Mentality In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

In the book Lord Of The Flies written by William Golding, a set of boys gets stranded on an island and have to work together to survive. Except that’s not what happens, instead the boys become engulfed in a sense of mob mentality which persuaded their Everyone action throughout the story. Mob mentality is the loss of individual identities of a group, this group then becomes like its own, unhinged person. Towards the beginning of the book, The character Jack catches and kills a wild pig with a couple of other kids. While Ralph, the chief of the group, was unhappy with the repercussions of Jack taking extra hands to hunt the pig. The group of hunters chanted and circled a “pretend” pig as they celebrated. The mindset these hunters entered