This is a concise but detailed Level 9 essay plan outlining the third paragraph in answer to questions about civilised behaviour in LOTF; there are key quotes & nuanced AO3 contextual links in each paragraph. Most useful when purchased in the bundle with the plan of the first two paragraphs.
Q. What is Golding communicating about violent behaviour in ‘Lord of the Flies’? (would
also word for a question on ‘savage behaviour’).
intro - para 2 all in notebook
para 3:
Ultimately, Golding could be seen to communicate how violent behaviour is inherent to
human nature.
- Jack now fully embodies violence, passion and savagery in direct contrast to
Piggy and the symbolic breaking of the glasses.
- “Jack planned his new face.”, “liberated from shame and
self-consciousness”
- mask represents descent into savagery
- original sin - he feels no shame
- “Jack smacked Piggy’s head.”
- Jack is destroying rationality & logic (glasses)
- Embodiment of the beast in human conflict: the parachute man.
- “a sign came down from the world of grown-ups”
- not just boys but adults & rest of civilisation contains inherent
savagery
- parachutist literally falls onto island
- mirrors boys’ arrival on island = postlapsarian humanity
- parachutist as a by-product of war shows man’s inhumanity to man
- legacy of barbarism within civilisation
- recurring pattern of the fall of man
- human history of & inclination to self-destruction
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