How Is Flies Related To Society In Lord Of The Flies

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Society is an intriguing part of our day-to-day world. Is it what influences us to do the bad or the good? Are we like individual flies that go around aimlessly? Or should we being like flies mean that we enjoy being in large groups together as a society being pulled toward things? The boys in Lord of the Flies have a direct correlation to flies that evolves throughout the story, which is referring to their behavior. The boys represent individual, wandering flies at first. Later, they resemble flies when they're pulled toward something as a group. Then, the boys represent flies when they have their own society and lose their own individual traits. At the beginning page of Lord of the Flies, "[Ralph] began to pick his way toward the lagoon"…show more content…
However, soon after Ralph makes quite a few very loud sounds with the conch. Piggy realizes "[it] can [be heard] for miles...[then,] a child had appeared among the palms" (17). By that quote it's made unmistakably clear that the conch is the thing the boys are attracted to. Like how flies are attracted to food or other things. The boys end up picking Ralph as their leader and each boy is assigned to a job. One specific job group, the hunters, eventually became savage. They were like a huge swarm of flies; however, they swarmed around a bad thing. They had a chant like the obnoxious buzzing of flies that went "Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood" (69). Even when Simon had that weird hallucination of the pig head talking, which was the Lord of the Flies. Simon was witnessing the symbolization connecting the boys to flies. The Lord of the Flies is, well, the leader of the flies, and the hunters have a new leader now, Jack. Jack is like the Lord of the Flies; however, in a sense, he's the Lord of the Boys. Soon, the boys will be losing their individuality like flies do, and the boys will just be a society
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