Lord of the Flies :: science

master of the FliesThrough my reading of Lord of the Flies, I have concluded that the subject of the brisk is adulthood. The focus of this novel is on peoples desire for a more civilized and anatomical structured inn. In this novel, adulthood does not represent a state of existence, but purport that seems to exist as rational and structured. At the beginning of the novel later on the reader is introduced to piggy and Ralph, they discover the beautiful conch, resting in the weeds of the shoreline. Piggy says, We can use it to call the others. Have a showdown. Theyll come when they memorise us. (p.12), gleaming with pride. This quote illustrates the adult imbedded in him, drawn from the influence of society. life history under the influence of leadership and politics, the suggestion of holding a meeting was instinctive and automatic. Piggy drew upon his lifelong experiences gained from his upgrades and other adult influences and utilise it to a situation. Piggy decided that the situation lacked the order and structure that he was accustomed to.After the boys gathered into a mock assembly by the sounding of the conch, one yelled A captain A chief (p.18) in desperation for leadership in the midst of an awfully tearing crowd. Lets have a select, (p.18) yelled another. The boys were not accustomed to a society that was ungoverned as it was in the adult word. They wanted to recreate that structure to maintain that sense of order in the group of boys. Ralph won the vote for chief in account of his image. The boys saw that there was a distillery about Ralph as he sat that marked him out (p.19) and they feel a certain hint of adulthood in his manner that they relied on at home. Under the constant leadership of adults, a child grows present to their temperament and the boys saw this in Ralph. With a convulsion of the mind, Ralph discovered after part and decay. (p.82) At home, the boys were raised with and became habituated to proper European mannerisms and dress passed down to them from parent and other adult mentors. To act upon these mannerisms and proper dress became second genius when around adults, though on the island, they had lost that adult influence. Suddenly, Ralph was struck with this saucy mood of comprehension (p.82) that he had lost that visible image of universe proper that he had been raised with for so long.