What Is The Use Of Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

The boys’ digression into savagery is shown through the characterization of Jack and Roger. Jack, from the beginning of the novel wants to be the leader of the boys, and he becomes very angry when the position is handed to Ralph instead. Rather than listening to the group and blending in with the crowd, Jack becomes leader of the hunters and rebels against the central authority. Jack even says “bullocks to the rules!” (79) and eventually is the one to send out the hunters to kill Ralph and stab his head onto a stick. Roger, being a child on the island and acting upon his id, “gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them” (51). Yet still because he's under the influence of his parents in civilization in the adult world, “there's a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.” (51) Although Roger still has a sense of a moral code when he first comes onto the island, he digresses into savagery very quickly. As Roger spends more time on the island and less time in an organized society, he acts upon
The beginning of the book the conch is used to unify the boys Piggy gives Ralph the idea to "use it to call the others. Have a meeting” (10) Ralph figures out how to utilize the conch to blow a signal to the rest of the boys on the island, and they're all brought together by the conch. The conch is used throughout the novel to keep the boys in order meetings are To get it because only person you can talk is the one who is holding the conch begins to lose power as the boys spend more time on the island; Jack initiates a sort of rebellion the cause of the boys to recheck the cart is influence and says “we don't need to cause any more we know who ought to say things” (89) When the conch breaks, the manifestation of democracy is gone, causing the boys the boys to lose order and civilization, digressing into