A novel I read when I was doing my first year college, but studied in detail recently with a lot of literary connotations attached to it. It was written during the atomic war time where William Golding fantasises a plane crashed on an Island and a handful British school boys wrecked here which seemingly looks like the Coral Island. The story opens with a jungle scene which is marked by the wreckage of a plane shot down by another enemy plane. The boys are the victims of the wreckage and are dispersed all over the place.
At the outset only two boys are seen on the Island one is the fair skinned boy Ralph and the other the fat bispeckled boy piggy, freckled and suffering from asthma. Others who join afterwards are, Jack Meridew the Choir leader, Samneric the twins, Simon Maurice, Roger, Johnny and the other members of the choir.
William Golding in the novel talks about man's fallen nature and the inborn tendencies of man to kill and destroy. He also goes on to tell that man also wants to live and to live in groups and discover civilisation and wants to be rescued from the evil in the mind. So the need to live a rescued civilised life over powers his desire to kill .
But he likes to live in a group with a leader, here Golding shows how the boys live in groups with a leader who is voted in a democratic way so they have groups and one group headed by Ralph takes care of the rescue operations and the other takes care of the food i.e hunting for food .
They use the voting system and a conch for gathering people in to the group. Ralph wants to build a fire so that people seeing them would come to their rescue
William Golding talks about how they practise group dynamics, and how one group is a rival to the other group Jack feels he is superior to Ralph because he is a hunter, he is aggressive to action where has Ralph is in the rescue team and is very sober and submissive, there is rivalry among them, some admire Ralph and his team others admire Jack.
When Jack hunts down a pig they go into a frenzy and they attack the members of the team they slit the head of a pig and hang it up like a flag on a pole
Jack the hunter has savage instincts, he feels aggressive and wants to kill Simon and eventually does it. Ralph helps to restore order by blowing the conch and gathering people for an assembly. He emphasises on the mission of rescuing themselves rather than getting into rivalry with one another. They build the fire and save it and are finally rescued by a captain of a civilian ship.
At the outset only two boys are seen on the Island one is the fair skinned boy Ralph and the other the fat bispeckled boy piggy, freckled and suffering from asthma. Others who join afterwards are, Jack Meridew the Choir leader, Samneric the twins, Simon Maurice, Roger, Johnny and the other members of the choir.
William Golding in the novel talks about man's fallen nature and the inborn tendencies of man to kill and destroy. He also goes on to tell that man also wants to live and to live in groups and discover civilisation and wants to be rescued from the evil in the mind. So the need to live a rescued civilised life over powers his desire to kill .
But he likes to live in a group with a leader, here Golding shows how the boys live in groups with a leader who is voted in a democratic way so they have groups and one group headed by Ralph takes care of the rescue operations and the other takes care of the food i.e hunting for food .
They use the voting system and a conch for gathering people in to the group. Ralph wants to build a fire so that people seeing them would come to their rescue
William Golding talks about how they practise group dynamics, and how one group is a rival to the other group Jack feels he is superior to Ralph because he is a hunter, he is aggressive to action where has Ralph is in the rescue team and is very sober and submissive, there is rivalry among them, some admire Ralph and his team others admire Jack.
When Jack hunts down a pig they go into a frenzy and they attack the members of the team they slit the head of a pig and hang it up like a flag on a pole
Jack the hunter has savage instincts, he feels aggressive and wants to kill Simon and eventually does it. Ralph helps to restore order by blowing the conch and gathering people for an assembly. He emphasises on the mission of rescuing themselves rather than getting into rivalry with one another. They build the fire and save it and are finally rescued by a captain of a civilian ship.
