Among all the events described in the chapter such as: Johnny and Maurice making Percival cry by throwing sand; Henry poking the transparencies and Roger throwing stones at Henry; three important social characteristics are highlighted. Firstly, the sub-conscious awareness of 'the laws of civilization', 'Now, though there was no parent to let fall a heavy hand' yet Maurice still felt the unease of wrong-doing.', especially when nobody thinks of apologizing. Secondly, the taboo of …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…he heads for people. His first victim is Simon who is killed in the ritual after the celebration for killing pigs. Things like these threaten and disintegrate civilization. All in all, Golding considers people, in general, as evil. The group of English boys he puts on the island gradually become a tribe of 'savages'. Civilization is therefore threatened and in way destroyed until only the most primitive of human energies remains, which is evil itself.