The context of this novel reveals a truth about mankind and how it would react without civilization and the feeling of social security. Living apart from the few people who keep us in our right minds, like Ralph, the human race could easily be brought to a great downfall and the blame would lie upon nothing but ourselves. Golding knows that without democracy, dictatorship, civilization and strong good-hearted people society would suffer and eventually degenerate …showed first 75 words of 351 total…

…showed last 75 words of 351 total…keep their mind off being trapped on an island eventually lead to killings of each other, brutal beatings, dancing like cannibals after a successful hunt, and a savage inhuman manhunt. Golding is incinuating that we as as a society are completely oblivious to the fact that we could break down into an uncivilised inhuman savage world at any given time. We must learn to appreciate the strong people that keep us in tact, like Ralph.