Lord of Flies
The novel Lord of the Flies written by author William Golding is spectacular young adult novel that captures readers with its descriptive sentences and varieties of theme. William Golding narrates a story about a group of boys stranded on an island trying to get rescued. He focuses on how the boys start behaving when they are isolated from civilisation. The novel has many theories one of them being Archetypal theory. In this theory the fight between the boys is viewed as the fight between good and evil, there is also an allegory of the island in which the boys are stuck with the garden of Eden and lastly Golding uses objects as symbols to give the novel a particular theme and atmosphere.
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The beast represents the evil that everyone has within themselves. “Maybe there is a beast…...What I mean is…….maybe its only us.” The conch represent the law and civilisation. “ I'll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking.” Piggy’s glasses represents knowledge and how important it can be because his glasses are the only way for the boys to create fire. “His specs – use them as burning glasses!” Fire is the symbol for destruction, hope, safety and rescue. Hope because it is the only way they boys would be able to give off a signal and get help. Safety because it gives off warmth and cooks food and destruction because it is able to hurt people. The first fire on the island went out of control and one of the littluns went missing,“That little ’un that had a mark on his face–where is–he now? I tell you I don’t see him” and Jack and his tribe were dancing around the fire before they killed Simon. The novel is filled with varieties of symbols that describe the nature what is happening on the island.
William Golding has skillfully weaved a story about good vs evil into his novel, in which he displays the struggle that the boy go through. He also uses the theme and general idea of the Garden of Eden and links some of the characters with the characters in the Garden of Eden as well as different symbols to create a sense of atmosphere and give specific themes to his
The novel Lord of the Flies written by author William Golding is spectacular young adult novel that captures readers with its descriptive sentences and varieties of theme. William Golding narrates a story about a group of boys stranded on an island trying to get rescued. He focuses on how the boys start behaving when they are isolated from civilisation. The novel has many theories one of them being Archetypal theory. In this theory the fight between the boys is viewed as the fight between good and evil, there is also an allegory of the island in which the boys are stuck with the garden of Eden and lastly Golding uses objects as symbols to give the novel a particular theme and atmosphere.
The fight that occurs on the island …show more content…
The beast represents the evil that everyone has within themselves. “Maybe there is a beast…...What I mean is…….maybe its only us.” The conch represent the law and civilisation. “ I'll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking.” Piggy’s glasses represents knowledge and how important it can be because his glasses are the only way for the boys to create fire. “His specs – use them as burning glasses!” Fire is the symbol for destruction, hope, safety and rescue. Hope because it is the only way they boys would be able to give off a signal and get help. Safety because it gives off warmth and cooks food and destruction because it is able to hurt people. The first fire on the island went out of control and one of the littluns went missing,“That little ’un that had a mark on his face–where is–he now? I tell you I don’t see him” and Jack and his tribe were dancing around the fire before they killed Simon. The novel is filled with varieties of symbols that describe the nature what is happening on the island.
William Golding has skillfully weaved a story about good vs evil into his novel, in which he displays the struggle that the boy go through. He also uses the theme and general idea of the Garden of Eden and links some of the characters with the characters in the Garden of Eden as well as different symbols to create a sense of atmosphere and give specific themes to his