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iggy is educated and has strong belief in scientific explanations and rational solutions to problem. Though he looks short, overweight and cannot see without glasses. In discussing the beast, Piggy assures them the beast doesn’t exist logically. He says, “life is scientific”(Lord of the Flies,1997:43). Piggy’ mode of thinking is rational and leads to an actual understanding of situations so that resolutions can be found. This is what Ralph has begun to learn to do. Piggy shows his intellectual strength and ability to think situations logically and use reason rather than emotion to decide.
 
Whereas Jack stands at maximal savagery, Simon embodies a kind of innate, spiritual human goodness that is deeply connected with nature and, in its own way, as primal as Jack’s evil. Unlike all the other boys on the island, Simon acts morally not out of guilt or shame but because he believes in the inherent value of morality. He behaves kindly toward the younger children, and he is the first to realize the problem posed by the beast and the Lord of the Flies—that is, that the monster on the island is not a real, physical beast but rather a savagery that lurks within each human being. The sow’s head on the stake symbolizes this idea, as we see in Simon’s vision of the head speaking to him. Ultimately, this idea of the inherent evil within each human being stands as the moral conclusion and central problem of the novel. Against this idea of evil, Simon represents a contrary idea of essential human goodness. However, his brutal murder at the hands of the other boys indicates the scarcity of that good amid an overwhelming abundance of evil. The other boys abandon moral behavior as soon as civilization is no longer there to impose it upon them. They are not innately moral; rather, the adult world—the threat of punishment for misdeeds—has conditioned them to act morally. To an extent, even the seemingly civilized Ralph and Piggy are products of social conditioning, as we see when they participate in the hunt-dance. In Golding’s view, the human impulse toward civilization is not as deeply rooted as the human impulse toward savagery.
 
    3.2 The Instinct of Savagery
 
In Golding’s view the instinct of savagery is the fundamental instinct of human nature. The instinct to gratify one’s immediate desires, act violently to obtain supremacy over others, and enforce one’s will on the other. When people are put in the extreme environment, they could be cruel, wild and bloodlust. For survival in wicked environment they control by the savagery instinct. Golding wants to debate how weak the civilizing instinct is, and that is why choosing children as the main character and an isolate island as the playing ground for games and hunting.   

3.2.1 The Chiliasts of Lord of the Flies 

In the novel “The Lord of the Flies” is the bloody, severed sow’s head that Jack impales on a stake in the forest glade as an offering to the beast. It is both a physical manifestation of the beast, a symbol of the power of evil, and a kind of Satan figure who evokes the beast within each human being in the novel. The Lord of Flies becomes the totem in Jack's tribe, in his tribe boys never scare it but adore it as their deities.
 
The strong-willed, egomaniacal Jack is the novel’s primary representative of the instinct of savagery, violence, and the desire 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。