Humanity and Barbarism in Lord of the Flies

William Goldings victor of the Flies, is a dystopian story of a group of English schoolboys strand on an isolated island during wartime. Told by means of an omniscient perspective, the novel elucidates on both the thoughts and actions of the boys. With most of the constraints of alliance removed instantly, the boys revert into a state of nailry, extirpating any rules and guidelines for living. Ultimately, the ideal of civilization and order in the group of boys becomes chimerical in their savage state, and the few boys who decline to succumb to savagery be brutally murdered by their peers. Through his ocular verbal explanations of his characters, his expenditure and juxtaposition of the symbolism of the conch dumbfound and the Lord of the Flies, and the evolution of the Lord of the Flies itself, Golding establishes humanity as inwroughtally barbaric and our immanent savagery as the received defect of humanity. \nA likeness of Goldings descriptions of the eyeball of hi s characters and the actions of his characters themselves unvarnished the barbarism of humanity. The first description of prick, the ultimate leader of the savages, portrays turds eye as protruding out of [Jacks] face, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger (20). In even the first description of Jack, there is a authoritative difference between his eyes and the eyes of the other initially innocent littluns, and this disparity is reflected in Jacks savage actions as well. When Jack fails to tally a pig, he glances assault fiercely, daring them [the boys] to contradict (31). Jacks savage actions argon reflected in his eyes, suggesting that savagery is intrinsic in humanity. Furthermore, Ralphs eyes, which enliven no devil (10), correspond Ralphs innocent and eleemosynary actions to organize and implement rules in the group. When the boys go wild and research the island like savages, however, Ralphs eyes are shining (27). By suggesting that the eyes of someone a...