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Three Themes in Lord Of The Flies

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William Golding, author of the novel Lord Of The Flies, wrote a book about human instinct. Changing the title of the book to Human Nature would best fit this book, because throughout the novel Mr. Golding concentrated on three main themes, Civilization versus Savagery, Nature of evil in mankind, and child innocence. All three themes fall under the grouping of humanity and human nature. So the title Human Nature, would best fit for this novel. Throughout the novel there is a constant battle between civilization and savagery. During the novel, the conflict is shown by the clash between Ralph and Jack, who each represents civilization and savagery. Ralph tries to use his authority given to him to establish rules, protect the group, and enforce the morals, while Jack tries to gain power so he can be the dominant leader, “ ‘Hands up,’ said Jack strongly, ‘whoever wants Ralph not to be chief?” (Golding 139). A key point, Golding concentrates on in the novel, is the negatives of savagery, he implies that it is important for every civilization to have a vent for everybody to exhaust their savage vibe to keep the civilization going. In the novel it would be fine for Jack to keep on hunting to exhaust his savage vibes, but when he tries to overthrow Ralph leadership role and make the group worship him, this lead the group into savagery. At the start of the novel the boys made a signal fire at the top of the mountain to signal any ships passing by. The signal fire acted like a barometer between civilization and savagery. Near the middle of the novel when it goes out, it represented one of the last symbols of civilisation on the island. Changing the novel name to Human Nature would match the story perfectly, because throughout the novel it concentrates on the point of human nature and human error which best fits with the title of Human Nature. When the boys first arrived on the island, they all had a sense of innocence in them, but by

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