'Lord Of The Flies' By William Golding: Theme Analysis

The author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding develops his theme of how innocence can be lost by setting the story on a deserted island where the characters in the book opinions could not be swayed by adults or anyone else influential in their lives. Golding’s tone in the book is violent and tragic which allows him to show how people’s views can be changed when certain circumstances present themselves. In other words he shows how innocence can be lost when groups of people start to do different things. Therefore Golding shows that man does have a dark side , and that under the burden of things such as he presented the characters in Lord of the Flies it can be brought to us.

In the story Golding shows how at the beginning of the story most of the children were vestal and were able to have a good kinesthesia of right and wrong. As the story goes on they find that they will have to kill animals which is horrific to most but as it is for their survival, they do something that most of them would never have thought of killing an innocent animal. As Golding stated in the story “the end of innocence” which shows how the kids turned on one another from that point of the book where they hounded and tried to kill a person …show more content…
As in the story popularity and “every else is doing it” can changed opinions which is intriguing because if one person was to think that killing people is okay then everyone else would join in. Fore example, how Jack, the founder of the savage tribe, started off just killing pigs, but he convinced everyone in his tribe that killing Piggy and Simon have been ok just by the fact that everyone else on the island was doing it. In conclusion, William Golding develops his theme of the loss of innocence by showing how school aged boys could revert from worrying about their studies to fighting for their lives in a matter of