Lord of the Flies

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   brandih

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   Since the setting is a deserted island, the predominate need is survival. So the questions the characters have to face are these: What does it take to survive? Are food and shelter sufficient? Or is there something more? 

   A deserted island is a blank slate.  The conflict involves what the definition of survival is.  Ralph's premise is that law and order, a moral system, is necessary for true survival.  That is what he wants to write on this "blank slate."  For others, survival means power--over nature, over others, but not at all over oneself.

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