Algo.

In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, a grim tale based around the time WWII was at full blow, describes the evil within humanity and what happens when society’s restrictions are removed. During what appears to be an attempt to save a group of boys from a nuclear attack, the plain transporting these children crashes, leaving no survivors but the children who (at most) are 13 years old. As the story progresses the children start engaging into primitive and bestial behavior that eventually leads to two causalities and a heartless manhunt, all against members of their same group that were children just like they were. The children in Lord of the Flies prove that separating from all moral holding bars instituted by society can cause a downwards regression from civilized manners to the point of savagery.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the separation from any known standard that the kids now living in this island knew slowly turned them into savages. Roger was no standout from this group of children by any means, just another choir boy from Jacks group; nonetheless he was one of, if not the first, to engage in barbaric behavior. As Roger looked at Henry, a harmless littlun, he mindlessly “gathered a handful of rocks and begun to throw them… [but not directly at Henry because] Round the squatting child was the protection of [institutions from his life in the past]” (Golding, 62). Even though Roger held back from directly hitting Henry because values embedded on him in the past stopped him, the fact that he still threw the rocks at this defenseless child shows the beginning of the mindless violence that characterizes uncivilized behavior. Further on the book, there is another example of Rogers’ moral regression and on the boys in general, during the murdering of Simon. The mindless thinking of the horde of hunters, which included Roger, attacked Simon, and during the final blows “the beast [Simon] struggled forward… at once the crowd [including Roger] surged after it… leapt onto the beast, swerved, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (Golding, 153). Here is another example, much more violent, of Rogers’ regression into bestiality, but being driven by a crowd and the rush of fear that conditioned this response, it is doubtful that Roger himself had full awareness of his actions, but none the less it is still murder; on a side note the lack of speech during this attack proves the further relation to animal behavior the boys and Roger himself are engaging. Rogers’ consummation as a savage comes with Piggy’s murder, which was his sole deed, attacking “with a sense of delirious abandonment [pushed the rock over the ledge]… [and] the rock struck Piggy on the head” (Golding, 180-181). Now, with no pressure from a group or the diffusion of responsibility belonging to a group may provide, the murder was committed, the transformation

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