If history tells us anything it is that controlled and somewhat orderly civilisations can succumb and completely dissolve into violent, chaotic and savage societies. Germany, a prime example of this, previous to World War 2 was an impoverished and crumbling civilisation that sought strength but its people could not expect the savagery and brutality of the worst kind of what was to come during the Second World War. Coincidently during the same period William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ takes place, but who could expect from reading a book about boys aged 6-14 that something evil could lie within its storyline of a civilisation gone wrong. Golding manages to successfully show us this descent from an orderly civilisation to a savage and chaotic
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Without the conch shell and its distinctive sound the boys would not be able to summon the rest of the lost children on the island.. Also it laid the foundation to this civilisation and represented law and order for the boys. They followed the ruling of the conch much as they had followed the ruling of their leader Ralph. This allowed democracy to take place giving every person an opportunity and a right to speak. However as time progressed more challenges arose to Ralph’s leadership and his methods which included the use of the conch. Before this, everyone respected and fell in line on hearing the sound of the conch but Jack and his tribe sought authority, chaos and destruction. This brought an end to the conch and its founder Piggy and whatever hope the boys had of running a successful and well organised civilisation. Therefore at the start the conch symbolised law and order and in the end symbolised the falling of yet another …show more content…
When there was order everyone realised that the fire was the most important thing but as the novel goes on hunting becomes the interest of the majority of the older kids thus the fire is ignored. The signal fire symbolises the kids’ last and only hope, negative forces Jack and Roger believed there was no hope and with their own disbelief destroyed the belief of many other children on the island. In the end the signal fire did not last symbolic of the now known fact that order and organisation was completely gone from most of the remaining boys’ minds and all hope was
Without the conch shell and its distinctive sound the boys would not be able to summon the rest of the lost children on the island.. Also it laid the foundation to this civilisation and represented law and order for the boys. They followed the ruling of the conch much as they had followed the ruling of their leader Ralph. This allowed democracy to take place giving every person an opportunity and a right to speak. However as time progressed more challenges arose to Ralph’s leadership and his methods which included the use of the conch. Before this, everyone respected and fell in line on hearing the sound of the conch but Jack and his tribe sought authority, chaos and destruction. This brought an end to the conch and its founder Piggy and whatever hope the boys had of running a successful and well organised civilisation. Therefore at the start the conch symbolised law and order and in the end symbolised the falling of yet another …show more content…
When there was order everyone realised that the fire was the most important thing but as the novel goes on hunting becomes the interest of the majority of the older kids thus the fire is ignored. The signal fire symbolises the kids’ last and only hope, negative forces Jack and Roger believed there was no hope and with their own disbelief destroyed the belief of many other children on the island. In the end the signal fire did not last symbolic of the now known fact that order and organisation was completely gone from most of the remaining boys’ minds and all hope was