The Lord Of The Flies Theme Essay

In the novel the Lord of the flies written by Sir William Golding, there were two conflicting themes that were clearly shown, these include order and civilization and chaos and destruction. Although shown at different stages in the novel, these themes reflect just how the group of survivor boys swiftly changed their attitude all together. Sir William Golding used these themes as an underlying message explaining how inside of all of us, no matter how hard we try to have order, if given the chance we will revert back to savagery.

Upon arrival to the island, the boys already had some sort of a clear idea of what order and civilization was. A few of them were orderly choir boys and the rest were initially angelic, young school boys. With the leadership of Ralph (who Golding uses to portray a sense of reason and order) the boys willing agree with Ralph's instructions to have set
He can hold it when he’s speaking". This rule was a civilized approach to communicating and therefore disallowed group discussions to be chaotic. As well as other rules that Ralph put in place and which the boys thought were fair (such as water should be stored in coconut shells and the rocks should be used as lavatories and not the fruit trees), Ralph went on to talk about the different tasks that needed to be done. Noticing Jacks disappointment when he was not elected chief he says 'The choir belongs to you, of course.” “They could be the army—”
“Or hunters—” and that was that, Jacks group of boys were elected the task of being hunters. Ralph also talked about another task that needed to be accomplished, he goes on to say, "We must make smoke on top of the mountain. We must make a fire.” Ralph greatly emphasized on how the fire has to be looked after so that it doesn't go out, it was very important for them because it is there only way of signaling for