“Stop Calling Me Like That!” Bullying Behavior in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

Abstract

Bullying studies have witnessed flourishing in recent times. Bylling can be understood as an aggressive and malign behavior that increased among different ages of people, especially among children and students who use persistent name-calling, on purpose harm, and physical violence. Lord of the Flies criticizes the predominance of bullying among the kids (characters) and how it effects on the bullies who adopted the savage behavior on the victims who suffer psychologically and physically and even died at the end of the novel. This research aims to investigate bullying behaviour in Lord of the Flies (1954), which is one of the main themes of the novel. Moreover, it argues bullying behavior that flourishes among children and affects them psychologically, physically, and socially. The study raises questions as: why do children use bullying? do they use it intentionally? What physical traits and ills attract the bullies? how should children respond to the bullies? This research aims to focus on intentional bullying and how it affects children negatively, meanwhile it raises public awareness of bullying in the community and how bullied should respond to it. The research is divided into two sections, the first section is an introductory section, it introduces bullying, the impact of bullying on mental and psychological health and William Golding's life and main works. Section two is devoted to analyzing the novel according to bullying behavior. The conclusion is the last part of the study that sums up the findings of the study.