Analysis of Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies: A Warning to Society Twentieth century British author William Golding once said, a “man produces evil as a bee produces honey.” Golding served in the Royal Navy during WWII and witnessed firsthand the atrocities committed by the Nazis. This experience influenced him to explore through his writing the evil inherent in mankind. Golding had also worked as a teacher for a group of unruly schoolboys who later served as the inspiration for the characters in his renowned…

A group of schoolboys crash land on an island in William Golding's book Lord of the Flies. When the plane crashes on the island, there no adult lived, but all of the boys do. Once everyone was gathered, they voted Ralph to be their chief. They established a few rules for everyone to follow. After a while things slowly started to fall apart. Little things at first and then it seemed like everyone was doing what they wanted to do. Ralph was upset that Jack and lots of others didn’t want to help…

“[they] wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true.”(Golding 215) This quote perfectly sums up “The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. A book that goes into the depth of the good and evil aspect of society. Golding uses his own experience in WWII, to write a book on how the most innocent children can go savage. Over the course of the book you see a reoccurring themes: the loss of innocent, fear, and the decline state of society.…

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a haunting parody of man’s descent to his primal state of savagery, from which it took thousands of years to emerge from. Golding utilizes his central characters - Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack - as representations of concepts that compose the machine of society. Golding admittedly states “I included a Christ figure in my fable. This is the little boy named Simon... a lover of mankind.” (000000) Simon indeed is the epitome of spiritual love. This essay…

comes out at night. In the book Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, a symbol helps portray the destruction and collapse of the boys. This symbol can be called The Lord of the Flies. The Lord of the Flies causes the boys to do unthinkable and irrational things, so unthinkable in fact it can be considered sadistic. The Lord of the Flies acts as, a symbol for the devil, a realization of how strong evil power is, and the representation of fear. The Lord of the Flies symbolically…

In the Lord Of the Flies, William Golding uses the character of Simon as a symbol of Jesus Christ to suggest that amongst all the savages on the island, like the evil in the world, a “Christ like figure”, Simon, was immuned from becoming a savage. Many believe all humans are born good, shaped by their environment and situation which can turn them into savages. However, the purpose in which Simon is compared to Jesus was in the interest of Golding wanting to show how a quiet character who didn't…

Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is a book written by William Golding, the book is about some boys who survive a plane crash and become stranded on an uninhabited island and must learn how to survive the island and the boys must be able to survive the prevailing ideologies on the island. In this essay, I will give the reasoning why the book represents how a normal society has changed human nature and how human nature can change when there is no society. This paper will show how Ralph…

Ralph is the leader of a group of boys in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Fear causes the the boys to neglect eachother’s advice The group of stranded boys are startled by the fact that there may be a beast lingering on the island among them. Ralph struggles to defend his statement that there “isn’t a beast” and is “defeated” by the uproar of the boys as they fail to listen (Golding 37). As a result of their fear, they end up killing Simon, a close friend, mistaking him as the beast. In…

Fire, it´s what makes us human. It is a sign of hope, and power, but without it weare no different from animals. In William Golding's ¨the Lord of the Flies¨ the events on the island are a direct reflection as to how Britain perceived the World War II. The Germans initial offensive (blitzcrieg) unified Britain as a nation, just like as the fires on the island brought everyone together. As Winston Churchill said after the initial German strike “Everyone feels now that, come what will, we are top…

Lord of the Flies Knowing the good of mankind in everybody, there is always savagery inside one’s self. Using symbols in Golding’s book, “Lord of the Flies”, was to be sure we get the same idea that even innocent children can become Nazis. By comparing symbols with the children similarly to Piggy and Ralph, being the innocent to cause damage to the Island like the Scar, or become a Nazi like Jack. Using Jack and the physical damage to the Island known as the scar to symbolize the defects of…