Imagery And Symbolism In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

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-Goldings weave of religious imagery and symbolism in the Lord Of The Flies is heavily imbedded using simon as a religious figure to kinda represent God. I do believe there is redemption with simon being the simon being the savior figure, and that is when he is killed or when there saved from the island or when the conch was smashed. Doing a little research on the garden of Eden I found that the translation is “related to an Aramaic root word meaning "fruitful, well-watered." This textual evidence does help compare the two islands that is that the boys do find fruit on the island, and not just fruit but food in general and also that the island is well watered because there is water surrounding it and that the use of trees in the book are well …show more content…
I do agree with some of Golding 's view points because that is true when you are stranded on a island you don 't have to listen to the government for what is right and what is wrong and you don 't have to care about what you are doing because society isn 't watching your every move. I think there is always going to be those people that live completely off the grid and they don 't care what they look like or what there going to post on instagram, but then I also think that there is always going to be those people that just want to fit in with the people that are going to be groomed and in there steam pressed suit so either way you look at it there is going to be someone above you and below you in the social class of this world. I don 't believe that people will ever just go back to there primitive/ animal instincts. But I can make a connection to the odyssey and how he going back to his animal like instincts with trying to get a

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