Read the following prompt and type your response in the space provided.

one major theme in lord of the flies is that society falls apart when people do not follow its rules.

choose jack or piggy to write about in your response. use evidence from the novel to explain how the character's actions develop this theme.

then, explain why this a universal theme, and give examples across different cultures that support your explanation.

i will give anyone who gets this right 50 extra points by making a new question worth 50 points and you can just comment whatever on it.

Throughout the novel, the conflict is dramatized by the clash between Ralph and Jack, who respectively represent civilization and savagery. The theme of Lord of the Flies is the conflict between the human impulse towards savagery and the rules of civilization which are designed to contain and minimize it. Jack is interested in gaining power over the other boys to gratify his most primal impulses. When Jack assumes leadership of his own tribe, he demands the complete subservience of the other boys, who not only serve him but worship him as an idol. Jack's hunger for power suggests that savagery does not resemble anarchy so much as a totalitarian system of exploitation and illicit power.