BY: SUDHEEP RAMASAMY

B 10127
BA ENGLISH (EXEC)
 Jack and his hunters become less civilized
after killing a pig. What activities in everyday
life seem to make people less civilized?
 to discuss on detrimental effects that can
occur to a human being when they are left
alone in a deserted area, where it is
impossible to get any kind of help neither
sufficient food resources with the absence of
moral society guidance.
 discussed how a person would feel when they
are in a position to disregard their life
principle that they had followed for such a
long term in their life.
 discuss on how does a situation and
environment could change a person towards
a savage characterized person and what are
the incidents or circumstances that would
affect their standing.
 Also discussed is another part (face) of
human being that is not visible most of the
time.
 The lord of the flies by William Golding is a
nicely written novel that mainly focuses on a
group of British school boys that escaped
from war zone by a plane and regrettably
shot down during that war. They landed on a
deserted island without any sort of neither
help nor guide and with limited food sources
that are available in that forest.
 The idea of human are partly evil and their
evilness are most of the time hidden behind
their good manner or by the social order.
This idea of brutality and violence are based
on the author’s real-life experiences from
World War II. The author also depicted on how
a human being can descend into savagery
with the absence of rules and structures of
civilization.
 The boys who are from a choir group where
they must adhere and encompass all the
good nature and characteristics that a good
quality boy should possess. The question is,
How come these boys that comprise most of
the good qualities would become a devilish
person in that deserted island?
 What makes them to become this cruel and
does the activities that we’re doing in our life
could cater this sort of habit or violence
behavior? For example, hardcore action video
games, violence packed movies and
possession of guns or merely the instinct of
survival.
 The boy named Jack become less cultured or
civilized after killing the pig, the reason for
this act could be the feeling after killing the
pig. The power of controlling the situation
and the affects that the killing the pig brings
in. As the novel progresses, however and the
boys slowly realize that with no adults
around, they are truly autonomous and this
make them to act wild.
 The moral and rules are in most cases forced
upon, rather than a natural expression and
when left to their own, the barbaric and
brutality senses will emerge that leads them
to commit evil. The killing of the pig also
causes the boys to be fixated upon matters of
the flesh. They also appear even more
disturbing as William Golding explains in
length about how finally they ended up
stabbing the pig and relishing the stench of
its blood and at the sight of its flesh.
 Influences from video games and in this story the
nature of human being to survive no matter what
it takes have changed the way the boys react
towards some rational actions. Video games also
have called for concern in our society regarding
issues like aggression and violence. The games
such as Mortal Combat and Doom are very
interactive in the violence of slaughtering the
opponent without showing any amount of mercy.
To the degree of how to kill an opponent also
affect the mind and attitudes of youngsters.
 For example, Half-Life is gruesome. In this
game when characters get shot a large
amount of blood sprays the walls and floors
near the character and in some occasion
when the explosive blast are used, the
characters burst into small but recognizable
body parts. These things definitely will be in
the player’s mind and soon if they faced any
problem, they might do as what they had
seen in the game.
 The capability of the game is depicted clearly and
vibrantly on how a killing will be such a joyful
act. These violence video games lead people to
become less civilized by violating the moral
values, society norms and personal principles.
The mind of a violent video game player will
always resolve a problem through violence or
brutality. As in this novel, the killing of Piggy for
his advice and views that is not approved by the
leader and the killing of Simon for their wrong
judgment that he is the monster are the
damaging effects towards the story and
themselves.
 The faith in supernatural matters is also a key
feature that haunts most of the people
nowadays. Even though the most educated
religiously well in churches like in this case
the choir boys finally believe in superstitious
about the existence of monster.
 This proved that on no matter how much
you’re really educated and religious, they will
be a time when you will fall into superstitious
believes. The real matter was that it was a
death soldier’s with his parachute falling
down from the sky. This faith in the existence
of monster emerged when the boys lay down
resting by the beach. Soon all the boys
believe that there is a monster in the forest
and they even formed a task group to hunt
down this monster.
 The feeling of unsecure when they’re alone in
that island eventually leads them into
believing into what is said to be a non sense,
the monster. What will normal boys would do
if even the religious choir boys fell into
superstitious trap? Looks like there is no
guarantee that religion and social studies will
ensure the sanity when we’re are left alone to
compete in order to survive.
 To an extent to kill their own friend, when at
night when they are walking in the woods,
they mistakenly killed Simon thinking that he
is the monster. After that they didn’t feel
guilty over their mistake and puts the blame
on Simon for his silentness of not speak up
or shout when they come over to kill him.
 It’s depend on ourselves on how well we keep
up and stand for our noble values that are
adhered throughout our life with eliminating
the influences that any source might bring in
our life. The dependence of humans on
religion are merely only for a limited time and
places, when someone went into trouble,
there might not have to follow what is taught
to be and act as what is used to be before.
 The tendency of breaking the rules and
regulation such as social norms are most
common during the hardship of human
survival. This hardship is the one most of the
authors write about and we experienced
about. The circumstances have better chance
to omit the moral teaching from oneself than
any other matters. This could happen to
anyone from common people till the most
religious and educated and very much
civilized people.