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William Goldings novel The Lord of The flies presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island left to try and retain a civilised society In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes At the opening of the novel Ralph and Jack get on extremely well We are informed Jack shared his burden and there was an invisible light of friendship between the two boys Jack changes considerably throughout this novel At first he tells us I agree with Ralph weve got to have rules and obey them This shows us that at the beginning of the novel just like Ralph he wants to uphold a civilised society We are also notified Most powerfully there was the conch As the conch represents democracy we can see that at the beginning of the novel the boys sustain a powerful democratic society This democratic society does not last very long as the children especially Jack have a lack of respect for the conch and the rules We can see this when Jack decides We dont need the conch anymore we know who should say things As the conch represents democracy we can see that civilisation on the island is braking up and savagery is starting to take over We can also see a brake up in society when Jack says Bollocks to the rules Here we can see that Jack contradicts himself while managing to diminish the assembly and the power of the conch Golding has made the two boys act similar at the beginning of the novel to show us how normal they are This demonstrates Goldings view that absolutely anyone can be over ruled by power and become savage like Jack when civilisation collapses After this incident we can see continual conflict between Ralph and Jack We can see this when Jack proclaims that Ralph Isnt a proper
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