Lord of the Flies symbolization When people, young or old, stray away from society the darkness within them starts to break out and without knowing it a human life can stray away. In Lord of the Flies a novel by William Golding the reader is spectating a deserted island with only kids and they have to rely on each other to survive, in this story there is lots symbolization can be used to set the mood or to foreshadow. Children can not survive on their own but suddenly the only trait that can be seen from them is darkness, this could just be human nature. In chapter 2 of Lord of the Flies, Piggy’s glasses symbolized reason and civilization. This is shown when Piggy says to Ralph, “Nobody knows where we are. (Golding 40)” This is said when Ralph, who is supposed to be the survivalist of the group
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This is shown when Piggy says “The conch, I got a right to speak. (45)” Instead of using physical power he relies on the power given by the rules. Piggy is a large person and to have control over him would take a lot of power, this power comes from the rules and part of the rules include the conch therefore the conch has power. The symbolization of the conch changes to losing power when Ralph “took the shell caressingly with both hands and knelt leaning against the trunk. (156)” The way that Ralph holds the conch shows that he is trying to keep it to himself, he is most likely worried that someone might strip away the conch from him. When the conch had power no one would even think of taking it from the beholder therefore for Ralph to hold the conch like this would show loss of power. Darkness starts to show when leaders lose power and in most cases of history when the leader becomes dark a much gruesome leader can take over in this case Ralph loss power and Jack took over, this causes a couple
This is shown when Piggy says “The conch, I got a right to speak. (45)” Instead of using physical power he relies on the power given by the rules. Piggy is a large person and to have control over him would take a lot of power, this power comes from the rules and part of the rules include the conch therefore the conch has power. The symbolization of the conch changes to losing power when Ralph “took the shell caressingly with both hands and knelt leaning against the trunk. (156)” The way that Ralph holds the conch shows that he is trying to keep it to himself, he is most likely worried that someone might strip away the conch from him. When the conch had power no one would even think of taking it from the beholder therefore for Ralph to hold the conch like this would show loss of power. Darkness starts to show when leaders lose power and in most cases of history when the leader becomes dark a much gruesome leader can take over in this case Ralph loss power and Jack took over, this causes a couple