Consider that with the erosion of the vestiges of society:
there is the accompanying erosion of identity in the characters. For instance, in the
exposition of William Golding's allegory, Lord of the Flies, Jack
introduces himself as Jack Merridrew, who is the leader of the choir boys. But, as the
boys are distanced more and more from civilization and their former lives, they shed
their clothes and their hair grows longer and they regress in their behaviors, Jack
loses his last name and even loses his old identity as he paints his face, camouflaging
it in order to hunt the feral pigs on the island.
As the
hunters become more and more savage, they play at hunting games with one of the boys
imitating the pig as the others surround him, bludgeoning him with their spears. At
first they hurt the boy who is inside the circle; later they reach such an irrational
frenzy that they no longer recognize Simon who has come from the forest to tell them of
the beast. In an almost orgy of violence, the hunters circle around him and beat him to
death.
Therefore, in constructing a thesis, perhaps a
statement that it is only a true civilization that provides identity for people would be
a good one. Without the rules and controls of civilization, there is a regression to
savagery which erodes individual's distinct identities.
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