sLord of the Flies Essay Outline Introduction and Conclusion Thesis: The novel, Lord of the Flies, demonstrates

es the important theme that humans are inherently evil. This was displayed by the progressive transition of the childrens will to their pleasure, the character of Jack, and the loss of innocence that the children experience. Body Paragraphs Will to Pleasure Text There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilarations, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense. (pg 71) If faces were different when lit from above or below-what was face. What was anything? (pg 78) What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? (pg 91) Because the rules are the only thing weve got. But Jack was shouting against him. Bollucks to the rules! Were strong-we hunt! If theres a beast, well hunt it down. (pg 91) Golding article The children who are retrogressing more rapidly have gone off into the war dance with which to fortify their own sense of power and togetherness. Freud The distinct transition of the group from the Ego to the Id mentality The character of Jack Text He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and selfconsciousness. (pg 64)

Conch! Conch! shouted Jack. We dont need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things [] Its time some people knew theyve got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us. (pg 102) Jack was putting himself in a position of authority. For the sake behind fear. For power/fear. Collective belittling of each other. (pg 125) The tribe of painted savages giggled and Ralphs mind faltered. He pushed his hair up and gazed at the green and black mask before him, trying to remember what Jack looked like. (pg 178) Freud Deindividuation Jack displayed the Id

Loss of innocence Text On two sides was the beach; behind, the lagoon; in front, the darkness of the island. (pg 77) Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankinds essential illness. (pg 89) However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic or sick. (pg 103) On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was.. (pg 111) Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering. (pg 115) I wasnt scared, said Raphy slowly, I was I dont know what I was. (pg 156) Golding the only enemy of man is inside him.

 the thing which threatens every child everywhere, the history of blood and intolerance of ignorance and prejudice, the thing which is dead but wont lie down.