Lord of the Flies - Essay 9

Lord of the Flies by William Golding shows that everyone is naturally evil. I think people will really be like Golding’s characters if they were removed from a civilized society. They would become savages as they split as a group, break rules, kill and no longer use civilized ways to exist. People become uncivilized as the evil side of them comes out without any rules and civilization to hold them back.
When people are removed from a civilized society, they have to make their own rules.   However, these rules always tend to get broken. Ralph first made the rule of the conch (p.43). Everyone who held the conch has the right to speak without anyone interrupting, except the chief, Ralph. However, in every meeting, no one obeyed this rule, especially when Piggy or the littluns are speaking because the people think that they have less influence. Piggy kept saying “I got the conch!”(p.221) throughout the book many times, but no one ever listened to him. Ralph also made the rule about the fire. Jack promised Ralph that his hunters would be responsible for keeping the fire going (p.55), but he disobeyed Ralph and abandoned the job just to go kill a pig (p.88).
Ralph had made a speech about keeping all the rules on the island (p.98-102), like keeping water in coconut shells, building shelters, the location they use as a lavatory, and maintaining the fire. All these rules had been made as a whole group, but all these rules were broken. They were broken because civilization on the island fell apart. We are civilized only because we have rules to obey.
People also kill when they are removed from a civilized society. On the island, they killed Simon, assuming that he was the beast before even clarifying the fact. They said “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in (p.188)! They didn’t even want to know who the beast actually was. Roger pushed a rock over the cliff and killed Piggy, just to break the conch and Ralph’s influence as a chief (p.222). They...