How do you Respond to the First Two Chapters of “Lord of the Flies”?

How do you Respond to the First Two Chapters of “Lord of the Flies”?

Introduction

“Lord of the Flies” portrays the conflict between the barbarizing instinct and the civilizing instinct that is present in all humans. The artistic choices made by the author William Golding are designed to highlight the fight back between the society's ordering elements, which include culture, law, and morality, and the disordered elements of the savage animal instincts of the humanity, which include bloodlust, anarchy, the longing for power, violence, selfishness, and amorality (Golding, 1959). Throughout the novel, Golding exhibits the rise and quick fall of a secluded, rough and ready civilization, which is split into pieces by the savage intuitions of those who make it up.

Discussion

Chapter 1

Golding, in the first chapter of the “Lord of the Flies” establishes the constraints within which this civilization runs. To start with, it is solely inhabited with boys; the young English schoolboys group brought down over the tropical island where this story came to pass (Golding, 1959). The verity that there are no characters other than boys is noteworthy: the young boys are just half formed, hanging between savagery and civilization and hence embodying the central conflict of the story.

All through the novel, the main idea of Golding's foundation is that societal and moral constrictions are learned rather than inherit, that is the tendency of human beings to follow orders, behave serenely, and obey rules is enforced by a scheme that is not in itself a basic or essential constituent of human nature. Young boys are an appropriate illustration of this idea, for they live in an unvarying state of stress pertaining to the rules and regulations they are anticipated to pursue (Golding, 1959).. And when left to their ...