Essay On Allegory In Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies is a very famous book known for its intense situations against the kids. They are stuck on an island, in the middle of nowhere from a plane crash. The kids thought being alone on an island without any parents was going to be fun, until they are faced with mother nature and themselves. What people mean by Lord of the Flies being an allegorical novel is that it has tons of symbolism involved. From its characters, animals, and even the setting. Some of the important symbols in Lord of the Flies is the island, the beast, the conch shell, piggy’s glasses, the fire, adults, the scar, and the ocean. Allegory means the expression of symbolic fictional figures. The island is the main setting in Lord of the Flies, most of what is happening will have something to do with the island. It symbolizes paradise, a beautiful place with a bountiful amount of food. The boys try to make it a perfect place for them to live in until help arrives. “Inside was peacock water, rocks and weeds showing as in an aquarium” (38). The author is telling us that the island looks like a beautiful aquarium. The beast is a pig’s head that was staked into the ground, it represents a sort of evil and violence. Simon recognizes it as a monster, and he knows that this ‘beast’ is in everybody, for some it may be buried deep inside of them. …show more content…
The beast is a fearful psychological monster that everybody seems to fear and panic against, meanwhile the conch keeps things in order. The fire represents a sort of technology to keep them warm and hopefully get a rescue. Piggy’s glasses does the same thing, because it’s a sort of tool or technology that can make the fire. This concludes that Lord of the Flies is indeed an allegorical novel because it gives us a double story on what the important items or settings are. The author gives us both a deep symbolical meaning and a literal meaning within the