William Golding Lord Of The Flies Psychological Analysis

Imagine a savage. What do you see? You probably don’t see a twelve year old boy with red hair and freckles across his cheeks. Most wouldn’t typically imagine a group of pre-teens as killers, but Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, isn’t a typical book. The children in the story get to a point that they no longer flinch at the idea of murdering one of their own. While some would say that the unique environment that the boys were put into drove them to the brink of madness, I would say that it was more weighted on the biological factors that drove them over the edge. These children had not yet developed an idea of how to fend for themselves, they imagined monsters in the trees, and fought with one another on a scale that ended with
The island caused the darkness to arise out of everyone. Plus, the lack of proper authority figures, as in adults, caused much fighting over the theoretical position of complete control over regulations. I would argue that even though the situation was dire, the fact that this unique set of children were the ones stranded on the island, was the cause of these certain events to occur. If there had been older children and no, as the book calls them, littluns, then the events would have unfolded much differently, even though it took place on the same island. In conclusion, the cause of savagery among the children in the book Lord of the Flies was the very biology of their brains. They were immature, feared the monster under the bed, and had clashing ideals. This caused them to quarrel and kill one another. They lost the battle of the mind and almost lost the battle of life, if it had not been for the smoke put off by their very own manhunt. They failed to remember that they were children that need to act like adults in order to survive. Instead they acted like the children that they were, and doomed every single child on the