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Thematic Essay - Lord of the Flies

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Savage, fierce, violent, and uncontrolled. With no order, the people in society will become savage. When order is diminished, people do not behave properly, they do whatever it takes to survive and become more like animals than humans. Order is what stabilizes the function of society; without it, there is chaos. This chaos is created when the people in the society become out of control and are only concerned with their own wellbeing. A savage character kills one of the characters and destroys the symbol that represents order. The savage character is out of control and with no order present to control him he kills an orderly character and in doing so, destroys one of the symbols that represented order. “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee, the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” (181). Now that conch ceases to exist, the order will not exist and the people will become savage. “Suddenly, Jack bounded out from the tribe and began screaming wildly. “See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore! The conch is gone“ (181). He is saying that now with the conch gone there will be no more order, and that is shown when at the beginning of the quote he was screaming wildly. The death of Piggy and destruction of the conch represent that order has been diminished and the people on the island are becoming unrestrained. Jack sees that now that the conch is gone, Ralph no longer will have any sense of order to control the people and there will now be a savage society, one that Jack desire. Now without order, they will become vicious and out of control. The savages go on a hunt to kill a character of order. They go on a manhunt to kill the main character of order, because now that order is gone the characters will be violent. “What could they do? Beat him? So what? Kill him? A stick sharpened at both ends.” (198). Ralph is thinking to himself

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