Resumo de Lord Of The Flies

Piggy, Ralph, Jack and his choir, Simon, Sam and Eric and many others meet up by the noise made by Ralph using a conch shell and join in an assembly after escaping from a shot down plane. They together set the rules and Ralph becomes the chief. Jack takes his choir out to hunt wild pigs for food. His first attempt to kill the Pig failed. Simon's actions show him as a good and helpful character. Rodger's first showing of aggression foreshadows his evil future. Jack's wearing of mask of face paint shows that he freed himself to do anything by wearing it. While Jack is mostly concerned with fire, he doesn't care much for it. The primal dance performed shows their transition in to savagery. When one of the children complain that he saw a beast, Simon alone realises that it is just the evil inside all of them. Ralph at one point of time shows his inherent savagery by joining others in a pig hunt and dance. The mock pig hunt also shows their increasing brutality.Jack's tribe attack and kill a mother sow, while the piglets escape. The head is severed and put on a stick, which is embedded in to ground as a gift for the beast. The black cloud of flies coating it causes it now to be called "The Lord of the Flies". Simon imagines as if it is talking to him. It says that it is a part of them and they are going to have fun on the island. The threat of being killed clearly foreshadows his ending. The beating of Simon by all the boys, even Ralph and Piggy who were caught up in the frenzy, fulfills the Lord of the Flies' prophecy. Both Simon and Piggy are killed. With their death even thelittle goodness that was existing till then has disappeared. The stick sharpened at both ends, in the last chapter signifywhat they did with Lord of the Flies, impaling one end in the head and the other in the ground. This also signifies the brutality as to what they planned to do to Ralph, who indeed felt like a pig being hunt by the savages. When he tries to escape they set fire on the entire island. Just then a Naval officer arrives to rescue them all which gives happy ending, but taken in a ironic sense the boys being subjected to more battle and fighting, this time on a worldwide level, due to the war taking place in the outside world.The central concern of the Lord of the Flies is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist withinall human beings: the instinct to live by rules, values and the instinct to gratify one's desires and obtain supremacy over others.

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