Lord Of The Flies Conch Analysis

Everyone no matter how good or how pure has a small link of evil in them. All it takes is a tragic situation to bring out the worst in people. Golding did an excellent job at showing that when he wrote his novel the Lord of the Flies.
Goldings novel Lord of the Flies being the devil that came up for the first time out of the pig’s head that Jack left for the ‘beast’ suggests that the evil is inside us such as the Lord of the Flies was inside the pig. Simon was the only one who said he didn’t believe that the ‘beast’ was real so the Lord of the Flies showed himself to Simon, because of his lack of belief the Lord of the Flies had him killed. Although the Lord of the Flies didn’t actually exist it served as a metaphor for all the evil that lives inside of everyone. That evil showed when the boys got into their chant and killed Simon mistaking him for the ‘beast.’ …show more content…
When Jack got the idea to cut off the pigs head, shove it on a stick to serve as a gift for the ‘best’ it truly showed just how cruel the boys were willing to be to please something that they didn’t even know existed. On the other hand, the conch symbolizes the complete opposite. The conch is a symbol of order and civilization, it gave the boys the power to speak and give them a voice. When the conch broke so did all hope of civilization and order. However, the two symbols are also very similar; they were both the start of something big, the pigs head starting war and the conch starting civilization. The conch, just like the pigs head, released war and violence when it was broken. The pigs head was not broken but severed from its original