Lord Of the Flies: How Anyone Can Regress into Savagery William Golding's award winning novel “The Lord of the Flies” shows how anybody could regress into savagery, no matter what the person's background may be. This is the reason Golding used British schoolboys in his story. They are supposed to be some of the most civilized people. Life does change dramatically over periods of time. Sometimes the change is for the best but a lot of the time it is for the worst. The boys on the island started as a democratic assembly however the slowly moved into dictatorship and finally ende