Lord Of The Flies Chapter 4: Painted faces And Long hair :: English Literature

Lord Of The Flies Chapter 4 Painted faces And Long hairAt the beginning of this chapter the link with moral order andcivilisation is still gratuity This is noticeable when Roger isthrowing stones but makes sure they do no hit Henry. This is becausethe taboo of the old life is still strong, Round the squattingchild was the protection of p arnts and shallow and policemen and thelaw However there is a suggestion that civilisation is becomingremote for the boys Rogers arm was conditioned by a civilisation thatnew zip of him and was in ruins Civilisation is a distant memory.Roger and Maurice are beginning to behave differently towards thelittluns. They kicked their sand castles over, buried the flowers andscattered the chosen stones. They enjoy doing this, something theywould have not acquiree in their past life as they would have beenpunished by their parents. Maurice realises this while walking away ashe still felt up the unease of a wrong-doing. This shows that althoughthey have b roken away from their past life, by rule breaking, theystill have a sense of right and wrong. Moral standards are underthreat in this new environment.Jacks standards and morals have been eroded. He claims that his warpaint is for camouflage and will help him when he is hunting, Theydont smell me. They see me. He claims. Jack is excited by his newappearance. However the war paint removes him from his previousidentity. The others are appalled as Jack began to dance and hislaughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He takes on primitivenessand leaves behind the rules and laws from his previous life.The war paint mask appeared to be victorious control the mask was a thingon its own and it compelled them Jack had left behind his shameand self consciousness.Piggy is trying to make a link with civilisation by suggestingthey could make a sundial. However this is treated with sarcasm andridicule from Ralph and an airplane, and a TV set and a moveengine. Piggy, keen to be accepted misinterp rets Ralphs smile as afriendly gesture but Ralph becomes dismissive and moves away.The boys suddenly realise that their fire has at rest(p) out and a shippasses by without seeing them. Ralph hears the hunting processionschanting led by Jack. During the early days Jack could not bring himself to go through a pig.However killing has promptly become acceptable. The boys involved in thehunt have broken what was earlier, a taboo. Not only are they nowprepared to kill, they actually take real pleasure in doing so Kill