LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 8 August 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Loss of Civilization and Innocence in Lord of the Flies

Fatima Anjum, M.A.
Ms. Sana Nawaz, M. Phil.
Muhammad Ramzan, M.A.

Conflict between Civilization and Savagery

Lord of the Flies dramatizes the fundamental conflict between civilization and savagery, endorsing the essential evil nature of human being meant to bend towards the destructive side in the absence of any civilization. The “civilizing instinct” of a man urging him to behave lawfully, follow rules, act morally and the feral instinct inciting him to act brutally, become violent and a selfish breaker of rules run parallel in this novel with the ultimate result of the feral instinct gaining expression by splintering the thin thread of civilization. The former instinct is manifested in many characters like Ralph, Piggy and Simon and the later devastating impulse is shown protruding in the characters of Jack, Roger and other hunters.

So, the structure basically deals with the idea that what happens when man is out of center of civilization. Golding accentuates loss of innocence and reason, development of overarching brutality, anarchy and fall from humanity to unbridled animality as the consequences of such desertion from civilization. In the end Ralph

Wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. (Chapter 12, page 184)

The strange glamour of the island existed no more; the island was scorched up like a dead wood. The painted savages who were indulged in murdering were a far cry from naïve and candid children.

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Fatima Anjum, M.A.
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