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Lord of the Flies

  • Date Submitted: 03/29/2011 07:13 PM
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Unity is the quality or state of becoming or being made one. The end of hopes makes unity vulnerable to changing behaviors. Such in the Allegorical novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding the author uses Ralph, Jack and the beast as symbols to show that fear leads to violence emphasizing an idea that when people lose hopes they became frightened and it makes them aggressive which leads to negative consequences.
    At the beginning, Ralph the generous leadership which represents the desire of power to impose order and to maintain hopes for a rescue, leads fear into violence. For instance, “Ralph…was fighting to get near, the desire to squeeze and hurt was over mastering,” (p.104). Ralph is acting with violence which conveys his motivation to solve problems facing it violently with no more considerations for the hunters; nevertheless, it also affects unity because the boys are segregated by fear consecutively. However, as Ralph represents exemplary leadership the violence is not showing off clearly but when he “[Ralph] launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling, with a spear, and the savage doubled up. There was a shout from beyond the thicket and then Ralph was running with the swiftness of fear through the undergrowth,” (p.217). Ralph’s hostility makes him feel satisfied using his spear. Notwithstanding, it portrays his cause of violence causing him to be as savage as the hunters. Meanwhile, Ralph shifted negatively affecting his leadership because of the maddening situations in the island. For example, "If I blow the conch and they do not come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals we’ll never be rescued,” (p.99). The conch represents integration of the boys, when Ralph blows it as soon the boys hear they go back to Ralph. Conversely, now they do not hear it which demands they are affecting togetherness by segregating the group. Furthermore, Ralph becomes savage which led him to violence.

    Later on, the beast...

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