Lord of the Flies by William Golding is classic loss of innocence novel that has been taught in schools for decades, and will continue to be taught for years to come. A group of young boys crash land on an island with no supervision and are stranded there will little hope of being found or rescued. In the book, William Golding uses a dangerous island setting, rich symbolism, and a overall extended metaphor to relate the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The island is the first part of the book and a very important one. The island is used to symbolize the world and the boys are stuck on it. It is just like the people of earth. We are stuck here for the near future and right now there are no plans of leaving it. Those boys
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Ralph and Piggy are the first two the reader meets and the boys find a conch. Piggy, who is the one who knows how to blow it, with his glasses represents clearness and discovery in the world. The glasses bring everything into focus for Piggy who is the intelligent one on the island and is trying to push things in the right direction so they can be rescued. Along with Ralph the conch is like a judges gavel. It brings everyone on the island together. It quiets everyone down and only those holding it can talk. Ralph is like democracy in the fact that he uses the conch to vote himself to leader. The boys at the beginning know that they should have rules. Jack even says it, " 'We 've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we 're not savages. We 're English, and the English are best at everything. '" (Golding,40) Even though they know it when they first crashed eventually instinct takes over and the beast came out in Jack and causes anarchy be creating another tribe besides …show more content…
The boys trapped on an island is how the people of earth are. We are stuck on earth for the near future and have to work with each other. Unfortunately the defects of human nature are leaking into society. Golding is saying that the defects in human nature is that all people are naturally bad on the inside. The beast is inside everyone except a few. A few like simon can see past the beast inside him and realize the truth that the devil is just inside people. However the people who see this don 't last long in a world where the devil runs wild in people. But that is why people have created rules in the world. Political systems and rules are like the adults in the Lord of the Flies without adults the kids go back to instinct which is letting the beast take over their mind and their soul. Rules are great, but they only go as far as people want to listen to them. At the end of the book the children get saved by the adults during the middle of a man hunt. Who is going to save earth when we are in the middle of a war and are trying to destroy one
Ralph and Piggy are the first two the reader meets and the boys find a conch. Piggy, who is the one who knows how to blow it, with his glasses represents clearness and discovery in the world. The glasses bring everything into focus for Piggy who is the intelligent one on the island and is trying to push things in the right direction so they can be rescued. Along with Ralph the conch is like a judges gavel. It brings everyone on the island together. It quiets everyone down and only those holding it can talk. Ralph is like democracy in the fact that he uses the conch to vote himself to leader. The boys at the beginning know that they should have rules. Jack even says it, " 'We 've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we 're not savages. We 're English, and the English are best at everything. '" (Golding,40) Even though they know it when they first crashed eventually instinct takes over and the beast came out in Jack and causes anarchy be creating another tribe besides …show more content…
The boys trapped on an island is how the people of earth are. We are stuck on earth for the near future and have to work with each other. Unfortunately the defects of human nature are leaking into society. Golding is saying that the defects in human nature is that all people are naturally bad on the inside. The beast is inside everyone except a few. A few like simon can see past the beast inside him and realize the truth that the devil is just inside people. However the people who see this don 't last long in a world where the devil runs wild in people. But that is why people have created rules in the world. Political systems and rules are like the adults in the Lord of the Flies without adults the kids go back to instinct which is letting the beast take over their mind and their soul. Rules are great, but they only go as far as people want to listen to them. At the end of the book the children get saved by the adults during the middle of a man hunt. Who is going to save earth when we are in the middle of a war and are trying to destroy one