The hunting, the violence, and the killing.In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, which is set during World War II, English school boys, escaping war in England, crash on a deserted tropical island. Jack feels there is no God, he is governed by evil.
Where was he in this initiation? He was just part of Jack's addiction to bad and negative behavior. The tears Ralph sheds represents the water in this initiation. Why does Ralph cry? Simply because it is an initiation. "And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of a man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wised friend called Piggy. After all, they're only boys who "fell early and decayed: creepers cradled them, and new saplings searched their way up", or so they would have become. With the exception of Jack, who only wanted the thrill of the hunt. So Ralph could go home and recover the innocence he once had. Wait for Ralph's Dad or another ship to come rescue them. Knowing there is no beast might mean there is nothing left to be afraid of. If Simon had lived and brought the news of the dead man on a hill to Ralph, Ralph's hope would not had been vanished. Those two and all that they knew would better their chances if they just stayed together. And the best thing for Ralph's survival would be to stay with Simon. The best thing for Simon's survival was to have stayed with Ralph. So why not Ralph? Couldn't he have delivered the boys the message of what the "beast" really was, through Simon? "We've got to make smoke up there- or die." For a young boy, his vast intelligence struck me. As he wanted order, "I had the conch" "I had a right to speak" And Ralph knew that a fire and smoke was the only answer to their survival. Never would I have thought he was the only one who later on knew exactly what was going on. He's just the boy who, in the beginning of the book, had been abandoned by Ralph and Jack. Why is Simon the character that defines the story and tells it exactly how it is? He's just the boy who always faints. Cain and Able start out as servants of God living in fear and humility, and then Cain is overcome with jealousy and takes it out on his brother, which is no different than Jack hating the fact that Ralph is picked to be chief of all the boys and wants to 'hunt' him. Adam and Eve most clearly and literally loose their innocence after eating the fruit from the tree they were forbidden to touch, and this is no differently interpreted than Ralph loosing his innocence by listening to Jack. Lucifer was the protagonist at one point in his story, being the head angel in all of Heaven, but somehow overcame all of that and switched roles to the antagonist, and thus became the figurehead of all evil in the universe.
All sacrifices to the 'beast' who they didn't want to bother them, just like the brothers lived in healthy fear of God and didn't want him to inflict any kind of punishment for any reason. The sacrifices in the Cain and Able story are almost directly illustrated in the book as the pig's head, or as Simon, or as almost Ralph. The serpent, as in the Adam and Eve story, was suggested quite a few times in the book as the invisible force of temptation slithering out of the bushes, and holding up their notions like a clasp. The archetypes in the Lucifer story such as the army of angels, suggest (as in the Lord of the Flies) the savages who were once good or angelic, and are now following the 'shadows' all the way to hell without really realizing it. Lord of the Flies resembles a whole bunch of Bible stories, 3 of which include: Lucifer,and the angels who he is the 'chief' of, plot to override and replace God by creating an army, but they loose, and then are thrown into hell for all of eternity Adam and Eve, who are two innocent perfect beings placed in the garden of Eden and given the opportunity to eat any fruit except that of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, are tempted by the serpent and eat the fruit thus creating the fall from grace, and the longing to return to the natural state of grace and innocence embodied in the paradise of the Garden of Eden And finally, Cain and Abel, two brothers that sacrifice the best of their crop and lamb to God as an offering, but when only the crop is accepted Cain kills Abel.
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