His Golden Eyes :: Lord of the Flies Psychology

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:39 am

I am supposed to be doing a presentation with some other people as Ralph, and all the other alive characters are in a therapy session. We are supposed to give evidence to support from the book. Have any ideas?

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:22 am

We read this last year.
I'm not as well-versed on it as I probably should be.
It's all about the psychology of politics and war in a microenviornment or something like that.
Like, someone gets killed, they don't really mourn, they carry on, change policies and hope they're not next.
They main thing I remember out of this is that the author took real-world situations and placed them in the hands of several young boys that became savages in order to suvive their situations.
The pig head, I'd say is delusional ideas that a god of some sort will get you out of any trouble you're in when there's nothing there but a rotting skull.

Okay, I'm not making sense.
Try Wikipedia or Sparknotes for some ideas on the psychology of it.