William Golding´s Lord Of The Flies: Article Analysis
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“Which is better-to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?” - Piggy (180). In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of british boys are stuck on an island. The boys have to learn how to survive without becoming savages. One could argue that the boys’ savage and immoral behavior shown at the end of the novel should be blamed on biological factors. The biological factors are the brain and emotional environment. This may be true; however the boys’ savage and immoral behavior shown at the end of the novel should be blamed on the environment because of pressure, fear, and power. To begin with, the pressure that the boys felt made them behave savagely. In the novel, the boys had felt the need to join in on the tribe. On page 152, Golding had wrote, “Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take place in this demented but partly secure society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.” The article, The Milgram Obedience Experiment, by Kendra Cherry, also showed where someone was pressured into something. In paragraph 9 of the article it says, “It is important to note that many of the subjects became extremely agitated,…show more content… Chapter three in the novel Lord of the Flies, the boys had felt as if they were not alone on the island and being watched. Golding had wrote on page 53, “If you’re hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if… there’s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if your not hunting, but being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.” the article, Stanford Prison Experiment, by Martyn Shuttleworth, shows how the fear will control some people in there. The texts states, “ The experiment appeared to show how subjects reacted to the specific needs of the situation rather than referring to their own internal morals or