There are many themes that you can pull from the first chapter of Lord of the Flies. The main theme that you can notice in this book is civilization vs. savagery. The central concern of Lord of the Flies is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings. The instinct to live by the rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands, and value the good of the group against the instinct to gratify one’s immediate desires, act violently to obtain supremacy over others, and enforce one’s will. This conflict might be expressed in a number of ways: civilization vs. savagery, order vs. chaos, reason vs. impulse, law vs. anarchy, or the wide heading of good vs. evil.
Another theme you can notice in Lord of the Flies is loss of innocence. As the boys on the island progresses from well-behaved, orderly children longing for rescue to cruel, bloodthirsty hunters who have no desire to return to civilization, they naturally lose the sense of innocence that they possessed at the beginning of the novel.
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