In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies, he uses symbolism to express his ideas through items and characters. Symbolism is a process in which an author uses things or ideas to represent something with a larger meaning. In his book he uses things like glasses of one of his characters, a knife, a conch shell, a beast, and a fire. William uses items as symbols to represent the significance of human civilization vs savagery.
William Golding was a British novelist and poet, who was born in 1911 and died in 1993. He also was a decorated commander in the British Navy and was considered a World War 2 hero. He was known for his pessimism (which is being negative) about humanity around him. His book was a response to the book The Coral Island that written by another British Writer named R.M. Ballantyne. In Ballantyne’s book, “he described how a group of British boys landed on an island and handled adversity with remarkable wisdom and good judgement”. However, Golding strongly disagreed with Ballantyne's portrait of mankind. …show more content…
Ralph uses fire for hope while Jack uses it for cooking and destruction. Jack’s group of boys allows the fire (their hope) to go out, paradoxically for hope of rescue. Jack uses the fire as destruction in Chapter 12, it says “once more the invisible group sniggered.. a stick snapped and he [Ralph] stifled a cough. Smoke was seeping through the branches in white and yellow wisps, the patch of blue sky overhead turned to the color of a storm cloud, and then the smoke billowed round him”(194-195).
In conclusion, The Lord of the Flies has many symbols throughout the book. For example; Piggy’s glasses, a knife, a conch, the beast, and the fire. These things are used as symbols to stand for something very specific that the Golding chooses. These meanings help the readers understand the meaning of civilization vs savagery. They also help the readers picture with is going on in the
William Golding was a British novelist and poet, who was born in 1911 and died in 1993. He also was a decorated commander in the British Navy and was considered a World War 2 hero. He was known for his pessimism (which is being negative) about humanity around him. His book was a response to the book The Coral Island that written by another British Writer named R.M. Ballantyne. In Ballantyne’s book, “he described how a group of British boys landed on an island and handled adversity with remarkable wisdom and good judgement”. However, Golding strongly disagreed with Ballantyne's portrait of mankind. …show more content…
Ralph uses fire for hope while Jack uses it for cooking and destruction. Jack’s group of boys allows the fire (their hope) to go out, paradoxically for hope of rescue. Jack uses the fire as destruction in Chapter 12, it says “once more the invisible group sniggered.. a stick snapped and he [Ralph] stifled a cough. Smoke was seeping through the branches in white and yellow wisps, the patch of blue sky overhead turned to the color of a storm cloud, and then the smoke billowed round him”(194-195).
In conclusion, The Lord of the Flies has many symbols throughout the book. For example; Piggy’s glasses, a knife, a conch, the beast, and the fire. These things are used as symbols to stand for something very specific that the Golding chooses. These meanings help the readers understand the meaning of civilization vs savagery. They also help the readers picture with is going on in the