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00:00Lord of the Flies begins when a plane carrying a group of British schoolboys is shot down over the Pacific Ocean during an atomic war.
00:10The pilot is killed, but many of the boys survive, deserted on an uninhabited island without adult supervision.
00:19The boys discover food and fire. They craft tools and form political and social systems.
00:25However, their brutal instincts eventually devolve into savagery and violence.
00:31Their challenges for control demonstrate the struggles for power between democratic and authoritarian political systems.
00:40Ralph is the protagonist of the story and the elected leader of the boys.
00:45He is a handsome, confident, and calm 12-year-old.
00:48He represents the political and moral tradition of liberal democracy, trying to protect the group of boys from nature and their base instincts.
00:59Ralph's friend, Piggy, is a pudgy and awkward asthmatic boy with glasses who shows keen intelligence.
01:07Piggy detests physical labor, embodying intellectualism and culture within the democratic system that Ralph represents.
01:14Jack is aggressive, cruel, and sadistic, exemplifying militarism under authoritarianism.
01:23Once the leader of the boys' choir, he turns the choir boys into hunters, seeking to conquer and control nature through violence.
01:32Simon has a deep affinity with nature and often walks alone in the jungle.
01:37Like Piggy, he is an outcast.
01:40He represents the spiritual side of humanity.
01:44Sam and Eric are identical twins.
01:48The others consider them the same person and combine their names into one name, Sam and Eric.
01:54They embody the struggle for individualism and human uniqueness.
02:00Roger is boorish and cruel like Jack and enjoys hurting others.
02:07Maurice relishes the ritual of hunting and epitomizes the mindless masses within a militant society.
02:14Percival is one of the smallest boys on the island.
02:17His character is an example of the weak members of society that a successful democracy strives to protect.
02:24The novel opens with Ralph climbing out of plane wreckage, searching for survivors on a beach.
02:30He finds others like himself, and they elect him as their chief.
02:35Ralph, Simon, and Jack explore the island and search for food.
02:41Jack shows early signs of violent behavior when he tries to kill a wild piglet, but balks before he can actually stab it.
02:48Ralph calls a meeting with all the boys to set rules of order.
02:53Jack agrees with his edict because rules are an opportunity to inflict control and punishment.
02:59They all agree to use a conch shell, which authorizes its holder to speak and is available to all.
03:06Ralph instructs the boys to build a fire on the mountaintop to signal their presence to any passing ships.
03:13Piggy proves essential when his glasses are used to start the fire.
03:16The boys soon settle into a daily pattern on the island, showing decency toward one another.
03:23Jack and his choir boys turned hunters try to hunt pigs, unconcerned with their long-term survival.
03:30Ralph orchestrates the building of shelters.
03:32The youngest of the boys, known generally as the Little Uns, spend most of the day searching for fruit to eat
03:38and are in constant fear of an imaginary beast.
03:41Piggy, who is viewed as an outsider among the boys, considers building a sundial.
03:48Simon, the only boy who has consistently helped Ralph, enjoys walking around the jungle alone,
03:55where he finds a serene open space with aromatic bushes and flowers.
03:59A ship passes by the island, but doesn't stop, perhaps because the fire has burned out.
04:07Piggy blames Jack for letting the fire die, for he and his hunters have been preoccupied with killing a pig at the expense of their duty.
04:16Jack punches Piggy, breaking one lens of his glasses, and his hunters chant,
04:22Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Bash her in!
04:27They perform a ritualistic dance in which Maurice pretends to be a pig, and the others pretend to attack him.
04:35Ralph becomes concerned by the irresponsible behavior of Jack and his hunters, and begins to appreciate Piggy's maturity.
04:43He calls an assembly and criticizes the boys for not assisting with the shelters, and not maintaining the fire on the mountaintop.
04:50The little ones express their fears of an imaginary beast, but Ralph attempts to demystify the question of the beastie.
04:59Jack then decides to abandon established rules, and to lead an expedition to hunt the beast,
05:05leaving only Ralph, Piggy, and Simon behind.
05:09Piggy warns Ralph that if Jack becomes chief, the boys will never be rescued.
05:15That night, during an aerial battle, a pilot parachutes down to the island.
05:20The next morning, as the twins, Sam and Eric, are adding kindling to the fire, they spot the dead pilot, and mistake him for the beast.
05:30When they alert the others, Jack calls for a hunt.
05:34Ralph decides to join the expedition to find the beast, despite his wish to rekindle the fire on the mountaintop.
05:40The next morning, the boys gather on the beach to discuss what the hunters saw.
05:47Piggy remains skeptical that there actually is a beast.
05:51Ralph dismisses the hunters as boys with sticks, but Jack accuses him of calling his hunters cowards.
05:58Jack attempts to assert control, calling for Ralph's removal as chief.
06:02But when Ralph retains the support of the other boys, Jack runs away, crying.
06:08Piggy tells the group that they are better off without Jack.
06:12If the beast prevents them from getting to the mountaintop, he says, they should build a fire on the beach.
06:18Simon leaves to sit in the open space that he found earlier.
06:22Far off along the beach, Jack claims that he will be the chief of the hunters.
06:27He will lead them to Castle Rock, where they will build a fort and have a feast.
06:33The hunters kill a pig, and Jack smears the blood over Maurice's face.
06:38They then cut off the head and leave it on a stake as an offering for the beast.
06:43The pig's head is a symbol of the lawlessness and violence that motivates Jack's desire for power.
06:50Jack lures the other boys with hunting and meat, and all of them, except for Ralph and Piggy, join him.
06:58Meanwhile, Simon finds the pig's head that the hunters had left.
07:02He dubs it the Lord of the Flies, because of the insects that swarm around it.
07:08He believes that it speaks to him, telling him how foolish he is, and that the other boys think he is insane.
07:14Simon falls down and loses consciousness, then wakes up.
07:20He wanders around to find the dead pilot that the boys perceived to be the beast, and realizes what it actually is.
07:27He throws up in disgust, then rushes down the mountain to alert the other boys.
07:34Ralph and Piggy search for the other boys to check on them.
07:38When they find Jack, Ralph and Jack argue over who will be chief.
07:42When Piggy claims that he gets to speak because he has the conch, Jack tells him that the conch does not count on his side of the island.
07:51As the storm begins, Simon rushes from the forest, telling them about the dead body on the mountain.
07:57All of the boys mistake him for the beast and kill him.
08:03The next day, Ralph and Piggy discuss Simon's death.
08:07They both took part in the murder, but now attempt to justify their behavior as motivated by fear and instinct.
08:13The only four boys who are not part of Jack's tribe are Ralph and Piggy and the twins, Sam and Eric,
08:21who helped tend to the fire relocated from the mountaintop to the beach.
08:26Jack now rules over the other boys with the trappings of an idol at his newly established camp at Castle Rock.
08:33He has kept one boy tied up, and he instills fear in the other boys by warning them about the beast and intruders.
08:40Meanwhile, Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric struggle to keep the fire going.
08:48During the night, the hunters raid the shelters and attack the four boys, who fight them off but suffer considerable injuries.
08:56Piggy learns the purpose of the attack.
08:59They came to steal his glasses.
09:02After the attack, the four boys decide to go to Castle Rock to appeal to Jack as civilized people,
09:08dressed in their schoolboy clothes.
09:11When they reach Castle Rock, Ralph uses the conk, trying to establish the old order.
09:18Jack, fresh from hunting, refuses to listen to Ralph's appeals to justice.
09:23Ralph calls the boys painted fools and defends himself with a spear when Jack attacks him with his own.
09:30Jack takes Sam and Eric as prisoners and orders them to be tied up.
09:35Piggy asks if they would rather have rules and peaceful agreement or be able only to hunt and kill.
09:42But Percival tips a rock over on Piggy, causing Piggy to fall down the mountain to the beach.
09:48The impact kills him and, to the delight of Jack, shatters the conch shell.
09:54Jack declares himself chief and hurls his spear at Ralph, who runs away injured.
09:59Ralph hides near Castle Rock, where he can see the other boys, whom he no longer recognizes as civilized British boys, but as savages.
10:10He crawls to Jack's camp, where Sam and Eric are now stationed as guards, and they give him some meat and urge him to leave.
10:18While Ralph hides, the other boys roll rocks down the mountain.
10:22Ralph realizes they are hunting him, and setting the forest on fire in order to smoke him out, and destroy whatever fruit is left.
10:32As the boys close in on him with spears, Ralph finally collapses on the beach, where a naval officer has arrived with his ship.
10:40The officer tells Ralph he saw the smoke from the ship and decided to investigate the island.
10:45He thinks that the boys have only been playing games, and he scolds them for not behaving like respectable British boys.
10:53As they prepare to leave the island for home, Ralph weeps for the death of Piggy, and for the end of the boys' innocence.
11:01All of the other boys begin to cry as well.
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