Ok, so, I may get hate for this. But honestly, I need to voice my opinion about Lord of the flies, and no one is going to stop me. Do not post mean things, but feel free to ask me questions if you want more of a view on it and my perspective of things, I'm very open to that.
Rant under the cut
I
Hate
Lord of the flies
I love it
But I hate it
Like I get the message about the savage tendencies of the human kind lying beneath the surface of society. But these are fucking children. Like I get it, more symbolism with c"hildren are good and pure and untainted, so to have them go savage is a better symbol of how deep morals go, which is only surface and face, not truth and goodness to their core and they are tainted." Like I get it.
But put a bunch of children from the ages 5-12 on an island, starve them, and scare the shit out of them, and what do you think is gonna happen???
They aren't "going savage" they're traumatized and breaking down. They aren't revealing their true selves, they're revealing who they had to become to survive a hell that they shouldn't have gone through. Sure, the murder is a bit extreme, but these boys are traumatized, they've grown up in war torn land with society showing war and violence and hurting others.
It's society that brought on the violence, not lack of it. Society told them piggy was inferior to them and therefore should be bullied and not listened to. Society told them they have to be providers and they have to get what they want, which is why Jack ignores the signal fire.
Society told them if someone doesn't agree with you, silence their voice. And they didn't know how else to silence piggy's voice other than murder because that's all society taught them.
Take the little ones on the island. They aren't going crazy until the older ones are telling them how to behave. The little ones are playing, they're acting like children, they're getting along and helping each other.
The older ones are trying to act like how society says they should beI hate the message of it, cause it's all wrong. And like, society is the one who's telling these boys one thing, showing and raising these boys as one thing.
But at the end, the navy officer comes to save them, sees the other kids trying to KILL Ralph(!!) And goes, oh are you playing a game? Who's died in your game?
And when Ralph says 2 boys, and starts crying, the officer looks away and says "you British boys should behave better and have better manners"
Better manners? What better manners do you want them to have??? You taught them that, you taught them violence and what you call being savage!!! Without society, without trying to position themselves as a society, the little ones were getting along and eating food and working together and doing good! But then Jack breaks off his group.
It's said jacks group is the group meant to represent being without society, but tbh, his is just society when society only focuses on itself. It's not lack of society, it's the selfishness of society.
Ralph's group is society when working together and still, it's not rightIt's not inherently good. Because they try to hold onto the rules of society when they are not in society. But the little ones who are just existing and ignoring the rules they might've been given by messing around and getting dirty, they are being inherently good.
And I hate the message of it because they are not "losing themselves to the savage tendencies hidden under the veil of society" they are doing exactly as society has told them. And that's why those kids die. Humans aren't inherently anything. Not good or bad. Other people and society shape us. That inherent bad behavior is just society itself.
When ignoring the rules of society, while it may not be the best thing, there are things stopping you, like your own morals. It's like that one thing, "if you have no consequences to your actions, what's stopping you from doing bad things" "it makes me feel bad"Like, sure, some people are just sickos. But my specific point is that it is not these children who were put in a terrible situation who are inherently evil!!!
Like, my point here is that these children were not a good reference for the inherent evilness of humans cause these kids were traumatized .
Ok, rant over, I'm sorry. Just had to voice my opinion, call me out of I'm wrong or whatever
