Lord Of The Flies Satire

Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, uses satire to tell the readers about the nature of life. A part of living includes hardships and and not getting what is aimed for. Golding puts that lesson into the ending by not giving readers the satisfaction of getting what we want. Even when the boys turn to beasts

In the book, the boys turn into savages and continue to be even to the end. Once the beast is unleashed, it is hard to revert back to feeling powerless. Golding’s ending is appropriate because it displays the nature of life, living, and humans. One of the lessons Golding teaches includes the fact that in life, wants are often not met. A major point in the ending is when the protagonist loses. “They hate you, Ralph. They’re going to do you in” (Golding 188). Oftentimes, the protagonist is the better man, the person we root for. Yet, he loses. The readers see a side in humanity we do not want to see. “I should have thought that a pack of British boys- you’re all British, …show more content…
Ralph is being hunted by the boys just before they are rescued. We don’t see the boys stop hunting. We just see them being interrupted. “What could they do? Beat him? So what? Kill him? A stick sharpened at both ends” (Golding 198). Humans claim that we are civil yet Ralph, the only civil one is outnumbered. They want him gone. Humans think they are at the top of the food chain, the most knowledgeable, yet maybe that knowledge is the decay of our humanization. We know that we can beat others and have the knowledge that humans are capable of more than typical animals, so it is used. Things will never go back to the way they were. The boys have done many dastardly deeds like the murders, the hunting, etc. The boys have been taken into a whole different world and brought back to the old world. They might not have time to