This research paper analyzes Lord of the Flies by William Golding as an allegory of social dissolution because of human nature's tragic flaws in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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a Christian parable, a Greek tragedy, or neo-Freudian, Jungian or Marxian in its philosophical precepts (Fitzgerald and Kayser 78). However, the interpretation that explicates the tale most completely is the
one argued by Baker and Dick that Lord of the Flies is an allegory on the "disintegration of society due to a tragic flaw in human nature," (Fitzgerald and Kayser
78). These critics argue that "man fails to recognize, and thereby appease, the irrational part of his soul" (Fitzgerald and Kayser 78). An examination of the shows these statements to
be true. While human societies strive for order and value altruism, there is evidence in abundance throughout human history that so-called "civilized behavior" is a veneer that masks the heart
of a primitive, and this is the major argument presented in Goldings novel. The boys arrive at the island because of the violence of war. They were being evacuated
from England because of a nuclear war when something happens to their plane and the "passenger tube" carrying the boys is ejected and lands on a remote, solitary island. There
are two distinct factions among the boys: those who follow Ralph and those who follow Jack. Ralph tries to maintain some semblance of order and civilization on the island. Aligned
with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referred to as simply "Samneric." Jack,
on the other hand, is representative of the primitive instinct that all of the boys possess to some degree. He is a vicious and cruel bully who delights in the
power afford him by the situation. As time goes on, more and more of the boys begin to follow Jack, rather than Ralph. All of the boys become more