 This is an odd
question that why William Golding doesn`t mix the lads group with girls in Lord
of the Flies. My hunch is that
William Golding wants to avoid that complication in his book. It was troubling
enough with mere boys. With lasses, the situation would be complex. First, the role of
assumed female would be easily used to prove who the strongest male was in a gender-mixed
group, therefore, domination in this group would be less controllable for the
author---perhaps Piggy and Ralph would be engaged in protecting these girls
from bitterness of nature or from Jack and his gang. Second, what
William Golding stresses on in Lord of the Flies is that if supervision was
missed in a social group or community, humans` primal, evil instinct would
start kicking in without check. However, the assumed girls may have brought
some kind of supervision to these insane lads. They may keep the boys in sense
or in sound behavior. Because male mostly should act as a gentleman in front of
female. What`s more, girls may try to find a way to get out of the island and
thus they would help Ralph and Piggy. They would look after the younger
children as well. Above all,
William Golding wouldn`t mix the lads group with girls in Lord of the Flies. Another fantastic
question is that what the ending would be if the boys group was wholly changed
by lasses. It would be the
same when the girls were from the same background – 1940's Europe in the midst
of World War II –they would have the tendency of violence as well as the boys
in Lord of the Flies did. However, for girls, it would take long to lead to
their tragedy. Female was more willing to be submissive, and less willing to be
involved in improper activities. Eventually desperation in island would cause
them to abandon learned behavior, and they have to survive. |
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