Essay On Lord Of The Flies Identity Lord of the Flies Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. An identity can be lost in a person s life time when they go through ruff or troubling times. This was proven in The Lord of the Flies when young boys went from civilized school boys to blood thirsty savages all wanting power. The characters all lost their identity one way or another during the story. Piggy was the first victim of lost identity when he was already labeled by society and other schoolboys by his looks. Every boy on the island had a choice to pick between a civilized life with Ralph or a barbaric life with Jack. This choice also determined some people s identity by them changing themselves to fit on a side. Jack s choir boys had changed their...show more content...The tribe lay in a semicircle before him (Golding 229). The identity of the whole group changed when the name of Jack and the choir boys changed to the chief, Jack, and the tribe, choir boys, became their new identities. The boys would hunt and kill the animals but would take an extra gross step of cutting the head off of one of their pigs and placing on a stick. This graphic image was not even the worst, but later that day their hunter identity really took over when they killed one of their own thinking it was an animal. What the clay and blood on their faces really did was change their identity when killing, they weren t the young well mannered schools boys but they were barbaric killing machines now. A prime example of their masks being their new identities was when, someone was throwing stones: Roger was dropping them, his one hand still on the lever. Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat (Golding 259). This shows that when Roger had his mask on and life or death in his hands he didn t look at the actual person he was about to kill but looked at them as hair and fat. Once he pushed the rock to crush Piggy he just thought that if he had no identity but fat he wasn t murdering anything Get more content on HelpWriting.net