Lord of the Flies: Civilisation and Savagery
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- LOTF: Civilisation and Savagery
- The shift from civilisation to savagery is a crucial theme, and the novel clearly traces a shift from one state to the other.
- Initially, the boys try to create a civilised society: the conch symbolises this through its links to democracy and order.
- The boys rapidly stop following civilised behaviour regarding eating and toileting.
- They become physically dirtier and more dishevelled.
- Violence increases gradually first and then more gradually.
- Jack and the hunters deliberately paint their faces like savages
- The hunters chant and dance and make an offering to the beast.
- Simon is murdered when the boys are in a frenzy and mistake him as the beast.
- Piggy is deliberately killed and Jack then gloats that "the conch is gone!"
- Sam and Eric are tortured and forced to join Jack's tribe
- Ralph is hunted like an animal by the rest of the boys, who are so focused on killing him that they destroy the island.
- Finally, the naval officer brings civilisation back to the island and is astonished that the boys have descended so far into savagery
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