Lord Of The Flies: How Anyone Can Regress Into Savagery

Part I of Essay
William Golding's award winning novel “The Lord of the Flies” shows how anybody could regress into savagery, no matter what the person's background may be. This is the reason Golding used British schoolboys in his story. They are supposed to be some of the most civilized ....

Part II of Essay
.... power by only speaking when they were holding the shell in their hands. This power was personified by the statement “By the time Ralph had finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded.” Which shows how even early on, the group let the conch shell have power. The assembly moved towards dictatorship when Jack started to discredit Ralph and the conch. “And you shut up! Who are you anyway? Sitting there - telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing- .” I think that this statement stayed in the boys' heads throughout th ....