“[they] wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true.”(Golding 215) This quote perfectly sums up “The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. A book that goes into the depth of the good and evil aspect of society. Golding uses his own experience in WWII, to write a book on how the most innocent children can go savage. Over the course of the book you see a reoccurring themes: the loss of innocent, fear, and the decline state of society. The main point of which is is that fear is our worst enemy. It can destroy everything, even our humanity. He used characters like Ralph and Jack to show how different people act under overwhelming stress. Their growth though the story shows the lost of innocent. Symbols such as the island, fire, the scar and the conch also proves this point. The main message of the book is hope, and humanities ambitions can be turned against the innocent by fear.
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The fire throughout the book is used as a symbol of hope and rescue. You see this when Ralph pleads for order, "The fire is the most important thing on the island. How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don’t keep a fire going?...Don’t you understand? Can’t you see we ought to—ought to die before we let the fire out?" (Golding 31). Fire is the main priority of Ralph, and in many ways is as obsesses over it as Jack is with killing pigs. Its was meant to send smoke up for rescue, but often overlooked by the boys. Which in the end splits the group up, based on their differing ideas of priorities. The fire was the biggest irony of the whole book. How your hope and ambitions turn against you. It is showing how humanity technology and aspiration destroy nature and in some ways our sanity. The fire was the boy's hopes, a way off the island. But in the end destroyed the island, hope, and symbolic the
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The fire throughout the book is used as a symbol of hope and rescue. You see this when Ralph pleads for order, "The fire is the most important thing on the island. How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don’t keep a fire going?...Don’t you understand? Can’t you see we ought to—ought to die before we let the fire out?" (Golding 31). Fire is the main priority of Ralph, and in many ways is as obsesses over it as Jack is with killing pigs. Its was meant to send smoke up for rescue, but often overlooked by the boys. Which in the end splits the group up, based on their differing ideas of priorities. The fire was the biggest irony of the whole book. How your hope and ambitions turn against you. It is showing how humanity technology and aspiration destroy nature and in some ways our sanity. The fire was the boy's hopes, a way off the island. But in the end destroyed the island, hope, and symbolic the