Following the plane crash on a desert island, children will be left to their own and must arrange their survival without adults . Among these boys, some charismatic figures emerge. Ralph, a handsome schoolboy of twelve years, reasonable and thoughtful. Jack, a master chef, ugly, aggressive, tyrannical, dominated by his instincts. The novel is built around these two figures antagonists.
The reason against barbarism
The story shows the rising tensions between these two figures. Ralph, advised by the wise Piglet, advocates a rational organization of activities: maintenance of lights to help rescue and construction of huts.
Jack is quickly fascinated by the hunt. He takes pleasure in killing of wild pigs, helped former members of the Masters, which he heads. He obeys his instincts and impulses, painting their bodies and sacrificing offal to obscure deities.
At the end of the story, the confrontation between the two groups, the wild and the civilized become deadly. Jack will even organize a "manhunt" the island to eliminate Ralph.
The gradual rise of fear
Without the reassuring presence of adults, children will quickly fall prey to fear. It is first issue of a snake appears on the cover of darkness. Terror spreads through the group, the children talk about beasts, monsters, black things. Later, the twins spotted the body of a parachutist who had failed in the island. Panicked, the boys flee and others describe a monster chimeric. The boys initially believe in the existence of a sea monster, then the hypothesis of a monster tunes appeared. Children are suffering from mass hysteria.
The vile beast
Group members Jack yield to superstition. They reserve the giblets in offering to the monster to appease his anger. One of the boys, Simon and observed a pig's head on a stake, offered to the deity. Flies buzz around his mouth bloody. Simon hears the pig talk to him. She explains that the monster lives in all. This novel paints a dark picture of the man in the state of nature. Children are supposed to represent innocence behave in a cruel and violent. Bodies are subject to and obey the leaders of the fittest. The reason bows before the superstitious fears of the group. Each child is a monster in power. No beast in the air, on land or sea is evil in every survivor. He thrives off of any organized society, the state of nature. William Golding
thus develops a pessimistic view of man. the title "Lord of the Flies" refers to a passage in which the pig's head is so designated. But this expression is mostly the translation of the Hebrew name "Beelzebub." Thus, "His Majesty flies "refers to the evil that has haunted man.
One chapter of the book entitled" The Sea Monster. "The reader then thinks the leviathan, but also biblical monster under the test of Thomas Hobbes. philosopher defending the idea that the state of nature and outside the framework of civilization, man falls into chaos, and violence. The "man is a wolf to man".
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