Lord Of The Flies Response

Lord Of The Flies Response

Lord of the Flies
The movie “Lord of the Flies” is about a group of children stranded on an island trying to survive but with tragic results. The raw human nature becomes evident when faced with the task of staying alive. Some of the children decided the let go of ther civilized selves and descend into savages. While some children maintained their class. The conflict is between the two competing impulses that exist within every human being, the instinct to live by rules and morals to benefit the collective, and the instinct to satisfy selfish desires for the good of oneself.
The key characters of the story are Ralph are Jack, they represent the good and the bad side of human nature respectively. Ralph was immediately established as the leader of the group by general consensus. He possesses stronger leadership qualities and has many ways to maintain order, such as the conch. Ralph never resorts to violence and is always logical. He has good intentions but it consequence is never good. One example is the fire, he asked the group to maintain it, and it ended up burning the tree and grasses surrounding it, and sparked off the conflict between him and Jack. Ralph is a good representation of Rousseau’s idea on the nature of man. Rousseau believed that no man has any natural authority over his fellow men. Ralph believed that it really “doesn’t matter who’s in charge”. Although he was the appointed leader, he did not make any strong actions like a dictator would, he gave everyone the change to speak and voice their opinion with the conch much like a democracy. Ralph tries to form a functional society with the group, such as pointing everyone to a job and encourages productivity. He organizes the group to keep the fire running and to build shelter in order to live as close to civilized beings as they can; to prevent the children from becoming primitive beings. This is much like the belief of John Locke, improvement in society leads to improvement in human...