During World War II, Bristol, England had many shipped city children to the country in the hopes of keeping them safe from the bombing raids. After the traumatic events during World War II, many of the children develop changed personalities. For example, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, starts with a group of English boys isolated on an island due to their plane crash away from the bombing raids. Ralph, the main character, leads the group of boys to become a civilized society. However, the group of children fall apart as Jack, leader of the opposing side, divide the boys and explores the wilderness without the limitations of civilized standards. Based on the analyses of irony, characterization, and symbolism, Golding expresses the theme
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The symbol of the fire, used as a rescuing signal, represents a way to express the boys’ insensibility by deforesting the island that foreshadowed their corruption. As they set up the fire, they accidentally let the fire spread wildly out of excitement. “The heart of the flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them. Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame.[...] ‘You got your small fire all right’” (44). The fire is a huge emphasize to reveal it as destructive power. When the fire was let out to spread rapidly, it hints at how they have a violent nature. The boys had the “forest was savage with smoke and flame” which indicates when they destroy the forest, they destroy each other, ultimately leading their turbulent nature and subjective wickedry. This leads to the focal point of how they can under destructive influence of the fire and destroy the forest as a key to severity. Their excitement causes them to do insensible accidents and indicates of how the cannot hold authoritative power. Symbolism represent their malevolence and ruthlessness through the symbol of fire and ties to how that could influence the boys to mental anguish and humans to be naturally
The symbol of the fire, used as a rescuing signal, represents a way to express the boys’ insensibility by deforesting the island that foreshadowed their corruption. As they set up the fire, they accidentally let the fire spread wildly out of excitement. “The heart of the flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them. Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame.[...] ‘You got your small fire all right’” (44). The fire is a huge emphasize to reveal it as destructive power. When the fire was let out to spread rapidly, it hints at how they have a violent nature. The boys had the “forest was savage with smoke and flame” which indicates when they destroy the forest, they destroy each other, ultimately leading their turbulent nature and subjective wickedry. This leads to the focal point of how they can under destructive influence of the fire and destroy the forest as a key to severity. Their excitement causes them to do insensible accidents and indicates of how the cannot hold authoritative power. Symbolism represent their malevolence and ruthlessness through the symbol of fire and ties to how that could influence the boys to mental anguish and humans to be naturally