This quote describes the life faced by the characters stranded on an isolated island, in the 1963 film, Lord of the Flies. It portrays the suffering and distress experienced on the island, as ghastly and horrific as 'the horror of non-being", or death. The film is about a group of British schoolboys who find themselves dilapidated on a deserted island, without adults to supervise them. Their way of life quickly degenerates into brutality, violence and even …
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…the island, neither does anarchy. At the end of the film, when the civilized-turned-savage boys are rescued, it is by a ship that seems to be on its way to war. One situation is traded for another. Society may evolve, but there are still flaws in the beings that create it. Essentially, the same problems will exist until they are remedied by rational approaches. Without laws in society, life is not what it may seem.