Flies & Development

In The Evolving Self, Robert Kegan discusses the eternal dilemma of reconciling the claims of the individual with the claims of the state. In doing so, Kegan discusses Kohlberg’s three evolutionary states which pertain to this dilemma, stages 4, 4½, and 5. These stages represent an evolution from ideology (separatist and exclusionary) to integration (of individual and group): (4) deciding for the group at the expense of the individual; (4½) deciding for the individual at the expense of the group; (5) integration of the individual and the group (Kegan, 1982, 62). Ideology forms during this evolution process, one that can be implicit and tacit or explicit and public. As Kegan warns “In its more lethal forms it amounts to nothing less than the inability to protect a person against arbitrary exclusions simply because he or she seems to be against the interests of the group” (Kegan, 1982, 63).

In William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies, we see that two ideologies emerge on the Island which represents a microcosm of society-at-large. In

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