"Lord of the Flies" is a novel by author William Golding published in 1954 which shows the fragility of civilization. It describes the regressive path of the children themselves. After a plane crash, a group of children find themselves alone without adults on a desert island. The group quickly organized itself according to a democratic plan: during a by-election they chose a leader, Ralph, and decided on the role of each person. Organized meetings, special moments in words. Various incidents and a life that promises to be harder than they initially thought will gradually tip the group into savagery and tyranny, symbolized by another key character, Jack. Wild pig hunting reveals the youth of primitive impulses. And the fire, manifesting its presence from the sea, disappears one day because its guards have gone hunting and the young people miss an opportunity to be saved. After the discovery of a kind of Monster (in reality a failed parachutist) sows terror on the island, terror fueled by Jack. From the seams in time, violence has moved and the perpetuation of human crimes. A real manhunt begins when a naval officer appears on the beach, as a “deus ex machine”. Analysis of the novel reveals that the plot revolves around major sociological philosophical themes: authority, submission, freedom and violence. It also shows us stereotypical characters and establishes each of its protagonists as heroes. Each character contributes to the unfolding of the plot which revolves around the Organization of Castaways. Faced with the imperative of survival, four children stand out. Two of them try to impose their vision of things on the other castaways: Ralph and Jack. First comes the democratic organization, proposed by Ralph, the eldest of the group. It is necessary at the beginning of the...... middle of paper ......ws the imperfection of man, evil being only one of its components and its nature in its totality. It therefore seems difficult to draw a parallel with adults; experience, references, intelligence and reason do not succeed in these young children. All seen from within the child's consciousness, where emotions come without always finding the words. There is no outward outlook in this novel, different from the one these children have on themselves and their environment. As they do not have the possibility of expressing what they feel, it is also the description of the nature in which they are immersed which takes on all the emotional weight. The child, like the primitive, forges strange relationships of complicity with everything that does not speak. As soon as he stops and listens to the jungle live, his perceptions are of incredible intensity, sometimes bordering on hallucinations...