Island needs

Marlow's List:

Physiological needs. Biological necessities such as food, water, and oxygen. These needs are the strongest because a person would die if they were not met.

Safety needs. People feel unsafe during emergencies, or times of disorder like rioting. Children more commonly do not have this need met when they feel afraid.

Love and belonging needs. The need to escape loneliness and alienation, to give and receive love, and a sense of belonging.

Esteem needs. The need to feel valuable. to have self-respect and the respect of others. If a person does not fulfil their esteem needs, they feel inferior, weak, helpless, and worthless.

Self-actualization needs. Maslow taught that a very small group of people reach a level called self-actualization, where all of their needs are met. Maslow described self-actualization as a person’s finding their “calling.” He said, “a musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a poet must write.”

Relation to the book (chapter one and two):

The characters in Lord of the Flies have taken care of their needs to a pretty big extent. They have organized a place to get food from (center of the island), as well as water, and oxygen is provided anyways. Most of them also feel loved as well as having met their belonging needs, as they are all part of a group and most people like each other. In addition, their esteem needs are covered as nearly everyone in a group is very valuable to the others surviving and having a satisfactory life. The two things they haven't quite been achieved are the safety needs, like on most islands around the world this isn’t very easy; it is very complicated to supply islands with its needs because everything needs to be transported over water via ship or plane. In addition, the self-actualization needs aren't completely met, as not everyone does what they actually should or wants to do. Overall though, the group of children have done the best they can to achieve needs.