Lord of the Flies :: science

Lord of the FliesThrough my reading of Lord of the Flies, I strike concluded that the subject of the novel is largehood. The focus of this novel is on peoples want for a more civilized and structured society. In this novel, adulthood does not represent a state of existence, but life that seems to exist as rational and structured. At the beginning of the novel after the reader is introduced to neanderthal and Ralph, they discover the beautiful conch, resting in the weeds of the shoreline. shote says, We can mapping it to call the others. Have a meeting. Theyll come when they hear us. (p.12), gleaming with pride. This quotation mark illustrates the adult imbedded in him, drawn from the bias of society. Living under the influence of leadership and politics, the suggestion of holding a meeting was instinctive and automatic. neanderthal drew upon his lifelong experiences gained from his parents and other adult influences and applied it to a situation. Piggy decided that the situat ion lacked the order and structure that he was accustomed to. aft(prenominal) the boys gathered into a mock assembly by the sounding of the conch, single yelled A chief A chief (p.18) in despair for leadership in the midst of an awfully boisterous crowd. Lets have a vote, (p.18) yelled another. The boys were not accustomed to a society that was ungoverned as it was in the adult word. They wanted to recreate that structure to maintain that thought of order in the group of boys. Ralph won the vote for chief in account of his image. The boys apothegm that there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out (p.19) and they sensed a certain(p) hint of adulthood in his manner that they relied on at home. to a lower place the constant leadership of adults, a child grows acquainted to their temperament and the boys saw this in Ralph. With a convulsion of the mind, Ralph discovered dirt and decay. (p.82) At home, the boys were embossed with and became habituated to proper E uropean mannerisms and dress passed down to them from parent and other adult mentors. To act upon these mannerisms and proper dress became second nature when around adults, though on the island, they had lost that adult influence. Suddenly, Ralph was struck with this new mood of wisdom (p.82) that he had lost that visible image of being proper that he had been raised with for so long.