William Golding Lord Of The Flies Analysis

The Central Symbol is the Lord of the Flies If one was stuck on an island among a group of unknown children, no adults, and no sign of rescue coming soon, the logical outcome is that they would start to lose touch with reality. This is what happens to most, if not all, of the characters in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. He uses the symbol “lord of the flies” as the root of all evil in the entire story, and it is what sets the entire plot in motion. It causes the characters to behave as they do and is the reasoning behind the choices they make. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the lord of the flies is the central symbol itself due to its influence in the masks, the loss of order, and the cruel actions the boys partake in that are the causes of their downfalls. The masks that the boys wear ultimately begin their descent into savagery. When the first masks are applied by Jack, he and his hunters are finally able to kill the pig they were previously unable to harm. Golding foreshadows the other influences the masks will have by making note that, “The masks compelled them” (58). As a result of these masks, they are encouraged to do evil. Part of the masks’ influences is that their …show more content…
The masks are what push the snowball that is savagery down the hill, and the rest amount to it as the novel unfolds. When the order is lost, the boys lose their sense of stability and start to break away from the democracy Ralph has been endeavoring to establish. Consequently, they all become involved in horrible events that occur as a result of the influence of evil, fear, and especially savagery. The lord of the flies essentially controls everything that happens in the novel, but especially highlights the evil already inside each