Savagery In Lord Of The Flies
In history, mankind have become more and more civil every day than how mankind was in the past. The term for that is savagery. Savagery is the condition of being primitive or uncivilized, and through out history, man and women have worked on conditioning ourselves in order to become more civilized. Civility is formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech. In the novel “The Lord of the Flies”, civility and savagery are portrayed onto the characters because the author wants their reader to see the progression of savagery in the characters as the story goes on, how they change overall in the story, and how the characters acted when they first landed on the island vs how they acted before they are finally rescued. The children started off being ordinary civil 5-10 year olds in the beginning, but as the story progressed, the children started becoming more and more savage. It started of with slight physical changes like their hair started to grow long and not to point out the obvious, there worn out clothes, then they became full out savages by killing other children on the island and creating multiple tribes, painting their faces, and hunting. So, as the
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The children’s appearances went from fancy school uniforms to cut up clothes and sometimes no clothes at all. In the beginning of the story they were civil, proper and well mannered children but, by the end of the story they were face painted, savage little boys that were hunting and killing each other. They even had a song about slitting a pigs neck. They went from good to bad, heaven to hell, good to evil. There personalities changed drastically though. They were kind, scared little boys that didn’t even know what it was like to have long hair. Then they became these evil, savage boys that didn’t even go by names anymore, they were simply
The children’s appearances went from fancy school uniforms to cut up clothes and sometimes no clothes at all. In the beginning of the story they were civil, proper and well mannered children but, by the end of the story they were face painted, savage little boys that were hunting and killing each other. They even had a song about slitting a pigs neck. They went from good to bad, heaven to hell, good to evil. There personalities changed drastically though. They were kind, scared little boys that didn’t even know what it was like to have long hair. Then they became these evil, savage boys that didn’t even go by names anymore, they were simply