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Golding was British. He probably used British schoolboys to illustrate how even boys who have been brought up in a world of rules, regulations and the classics, who are the very epitomy of civilisation, can quickly revert to "savagery" if the right situation arises.

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The characters in the book are immature and react on an emotional, primitive and superstitious level and are easily manipulated by older but still immature characters in the story. This is the behavior of children and kids. It is also the behavior of uneducated superstitious tribal adults, but that would be a different story.

Most mature and educated adults will not behave this way and would not allow themselves to be manipulated this way although the possibility exist by another intentionally feeding them misinformation.

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  • The whole novel revolves around the idea of Anarchy vs Civilization. In this novel Golding has tried to explain how Civilization is important to maintain order and discipline, the purpose of using British school boys was to show when human beings are left on their own they become anarchists, they have the freedom of doing whatever they want and there is no Law and Order. First the school boys represent Civilization in the beggining but later they are shown as savages The whole novel revolves around the idea of Anarchy vs Civilization. In this novel Golding has tried to explain how Civilization is important to maintain order and discipline, the purpose of using British school boys was to show when human beings are left on their own they become anarchists, they have the freedom of doing whatever they want and there is no law and order. First the school boys represent Civilization in the beggining but later they are shown as savages because there is no order and law, they do whatever they please or like to do. Its the Civilization that protects us, without government and Civilization society degenerates and people loose their capacity for moral behaviours
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cause children are easily led astray when there is no adults

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