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Could our own morals become degraded like those of the characters in Lord of the Flies? Posted by hummer1 on Mar 10, 2009. |
Lord of the Flies Group
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The novel is a study of civilization in miniature. Golding used a group of male school boys, but he just as easily may have used girls, adults, etc. Nearly every personality type is represented by one of the novel's characters. We CAN have a degradation of our morals, because the boys slowly descend into savagery and wildness. For Roger it is a quick slope, and for others (Ralph, simon, and Piggy) it doesn't happen at all. When Roger kills Simon's lizard, when he throws rocks at the little children, his morals are degradated. Whenever we do savage, irrational acts our moral fibre is tested and affected. When the boys are first "shipwrecked" they are all highly civilized, highly respectable children with high morals. The process of the novel is the degradation of the boys' morals. Posted by danylyshen on Mar 10, 2009. |
