... dominance, their gender had something to do with this. Would the same experiences have occurred had females been stranded on the island instead of males? I believe, if females had been in a similar situation as the boys in Lord of the Flies, they would have had a better experience. Society encourages males" violent behavior, as well as females" politeness and passivity, as does ... perceive "ladylike" expectations to be neatness, meekness, politeness, and want to appear nurturing and feminine. These obligations contribute to the breeding of young men who act in an abusive manner, and fem...

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... no longer exist, the dark side will most possibly prevail. This is clearly illustrated in Lord of the Flies, a novel written by William Goldings. After many days on a deserted island with no adults, which meant no way of enforcing authority, Jack's tribe, representing evilness and savagery, destroyed the last traces of civilization when confronted with Ralph's group, who represents law, order and democracy. Without the ... , authority, and order are no longer regarded. As illustrated in the novel Lord of the Flies, a society without the enforcement of laws experience the disappearance of...

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... Lord of the Flies is not, to say the least, a simple adventure of boys on a desert island, in fact the theme of the Novel is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human society back to human nature, and indeed the emergence of this concealed, basic wildness is the theme of the book. Piggy's Specs mark the somewhat horrific symbol of progressive decay of ... anarchy and evil. In the beginning the glasses marked Piggy as queer and forlorn to the others, an irreparably irrelevant piece of matter flaked off the loaf that is society. These glasses marked his intell...

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Chapter 1 of LOTF, first establishes the innate tensions between civilization and savagery in the impromptu civilization of largely preadolescent boys. Restricted by their acquired tendency to follow rules and orders, the boys attempt at making some sort of civilization, similar to the one they had been brought up in. However, as the reality of their freedom sets in, the natural savage behavior attempts to free itself from the chains of moral society, causing full-blown conflicts between the remains of society and the savage island. These conflicts are foreshadowed in Chapter 1 with the introd...

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