h and Jack is one. Ralph represents order and composure in society. Jack grew tired of Ralph being in charge. He went into a rampage, destroying everything the boys worked so hard for to create. Another conflict was the Boys Vs. The Beast. The beast symbolizes the devil and is made up of all the evil that is inside each of the boys. As the boys grew farther away from any civilization their desire to kill the beast grew. They went from being scared at first to wanting to kill it.Another conflict is Boys Vs. Nature. The boys went hunting many times to keep themselves alive. At first they were scared to kill, by the end of the book, they weren’t afraid to kill but wanted to kill.Boys Vs. Piggy was another one. Piggy represented the kind of people that get picked on a lot. The boys were horrible to him because of his big glasses and of his weight. The boys didn’t really understand either because they didn’t know anyone like Piggy. For an example they didn’t know what asthma was.Jack Vs. Society is another one. Jack couldn’t stand taking orders from Ralph anymore. It made him even more angry. He didn’t like participating in the rules that they had either. He must have felt like this before he even came to the island. He didn’t want to listen to anyone but himself and felt his ideas were the best. There are actually many different themes in this book. William Golding says that “the theme (of the book) is an attempt to trace back the decects of society to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system.”One of the most basic and obvious themes is that society holds everyone together, and with out these conditions, our ideals, values, and the basics of right and wrong are lost. Another theme is that people often single out others to give themselves security. This happ...
