Violence in the Lord of the Flies

Significance of Violence Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic novel which narrates the struggles of young boys marooned on a solitary and uninhibited tropical island. In this castaway fiction, Golding used calamitous scenes of violence to expose the evil that manifests when the morals of civilization are taken away. Also, as their time on the island amplified Golding used the young boys to validate the moral decay which takes place without the decrees of civilization. In the beginning of the novel, the boys aspired to set up a miniature civilization to mimic the one present in the outside world. They selected a leader, assigned specific roles to different individuals, and even constructed a set of rules and axioms. However, as their stay on the island prolonged, and the boys received no reprimands for their inadequate actions, they slowly started to abandon the morality and standards imposed by civilization.
Golding gives the first example of this when Jack had an opportunity to capture a pig but refrained because the thought of violently cutting its throats was immoral to him. However, as time passed he was able to abdicate his old standards and make his first kill, which demonstrated how the boys were slowly starting to let go of old rules. Furthermore, Golding exemplified the boys’ moral atrophy when they violently “leapt on the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.” Possessed by a frenzy of energy, the boys ignored the words Simon was trying to tell them, and while concluding that he was “the beast” they atrociously and savagely murdered him. After realizing who they had really murdered, the boys tried to forget about the incident and act as though it didn’t happen. However, in spite of their indifference to the incident, through Simon’s death, Golding portrayed how much the boys had changed without the rules of civilization. Moreover, by killing Simon who had constantly remained moral symbolized a natural goodness; Golding