Analysis of Lord of the Flies

In the books The Outsiders and The Lord of the Flies, Hinton’s and Golding’s approaches to the themes of challenges, choices, conformity all contrast. For example, in The Outsiders, Hinton’s approach to challenges contrast Golding’s plot and the way they affect the story. One of the challenges Ponyboy faces is the fact that his parents are dead and his oldest brother, Darry, is supporting the family. On page 3, Ponyboy says, “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to…

The novel Lord of the Flies is a book written by William Golding and it’s about English school boys who were evacuating a war that was going on at the time. Sadly, their plane got shot down and they ended up crashing on an unknown island with no adult survivors. Soon, these boys develop a fear of “the beast”. Now the question is: what is the beast? The beast signifies the unknown; they classify the beast is made up of three things: fear, war and human nature. In the Lord of the Flies, the boys…

Lord of the Flies Essays Deserted people all have a degree of civility, until it comes down to a life, or death situation. In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of British schoolboys crash down on an island. They are all alone with no parents, and no order. The boys find out the hard way, with no order and authority, chaos and savagery will take over their minds and actions. To show the savagery and uncivil actions, Golding uses symbols such as fire, a spear, and the conch.…

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a frightening tale displaying the collapse of civilization and government due to man’s innate preferences towards savagery and anarchy. The novel follows a group of young British schoolboys who are stranded on an island. In pure isolation from the outside world, the boys, with nothing but mankind’s true nature, slowly digress from civilized humans into primitive beasts. Throughout the story, the conch and its loss of influence over the island directly…

There is a pessimistic ending to the novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding which highlights the many flaws of the human nature, which puts negativity on society’s ability to survive. The only character that represents goodness is Simon. Simon portrays as a Christ-figure, he has the qualities such as intelligences, caring, good, etc. After the boys kill Simon, thinking he was the beast, Golding says, “Jack and the boys manages to kill Simon. Simon is even the optimist and the innocent…

of another may be either the most devastating or the most exhilarating sight ever. All deaths have a purpose, since it is ending a life that is either good or bad. That purpose can be little or big to continue life and move on. In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, it introduces a group of boys that survives a plane crash on a remote island in the Pacific. They all attempt to form a system to work together and survive on the ponderous island. Many of them experience new emotions…

help improve the lives of the inhabitants, but instead killed over fifteen million Congolese for his own personal gain, committing some of the most atrocious crimes in history with the help of his followers. The boys in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, suffer from this, a problem that has lived on through many generations. In the midst of a vicious war, the boys crash land on a desolate island and quickly elect a leader to control the society. However, the structure soon falls apart…

viciously stuck up the head from the neck area. Additionally, the head is expelling lavish red blood from the right eye, and furious or miserable tears from the left eye, along with more blood from the mouth and neck section. Since the phrase “Lord of the Flies” represents the devil, the pig’s head on the stick exorcising blood symbolizes the Beelzebub, or generally, the force of evil that may occur in the novel. The cover may also represent savagery such as…

changing the world. We think it makes us cocky or conceited to even think that we are a good leader. Leadership is more about the small, nice little things you’ve done for someone and how much it affected that person. Unfortunately, in the book Lord of the Flies, no one shows that type of leadership in the book. Leadership to me is about the small things you have done for someone and it affected that person in a positive way. For example, let’s say I saw someone’s drawing and complimented it,…

Symbols conjure a unique meaning that cannot be directly expressed through the use of words. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses these symbols to establish significant meaning. In this story, the young boys are shot down during a plane ride in the midst of a war becoming stranded on an island. On this island they uncover a conch. The conch represents power, authority, and order to the boys. Furthermore, being on the island has led these boys to be frightened of a beast. The beast is an imaginary…