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Allegorical Analysis of Lord of the Flies” A tale of human nature, William Golding’s critically acclaimed novel Lord of the Flies explores the effects that surviving on a deserted island without the constraints of society’s rules and obligations has on a group of young boys. Golding argues that moral and societal restraints are learned, not innate, with the adolescent male mind in a more unstable balance between civilization and savagery. For the most part, Flies can be seen as an allegorical…

Ralph picked up his stick and prepared for battle. But what could they do? It would take them a week to break a path through the thicket; and anyone who wormed his way in would be helpless. He felt the point of his spear with his thumb and grinned without amusement. Whoever tried that would be stuck, squealing like a pig. They were going away, back to the tower rock. He could hear feet moving and then someone sniggered. There came again that high, bird-like cry that swept along the line. So…

to escape judgement. Society holds individuals accountable to a set of standards. However, without rules and regulations, the structure the world has tried to preserve would vanish and people’s true instincts would show. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding depicts Jack’s transformation from a civilized schoolboy to a violent monster to argue that all humans are savages, but they are hidden behind rules and social norms. In the beginning, Jack is the leader of the choir and he is the…

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…

Title: The vile and wicked nature of human beings is captured in William Golding’s Lord of The Flies; the characters explicitly symbolize a plethora of human society’s known defects, but also manage to resemble its “positives.” The characters develop along with the plot, turning from what seemed to be a formed enlightened democracy, to a tribal uprising - this in turn shows that any government created can only be expected to uphold the standards of its members. If the quality of a society and…

society we live in today is precariously balanced on the head of a pin and only requires the smallest of nudges to fall into destruction and anarchy.William Golding’s novel Lord Of The Flies illustrates the fragile nature of our human tendencies toward compassion and kindness to our fellow-man. In Lord of the Flies, a group of schoolchildren are being flown to a safe place during a war when their plane crashes on a deserted island and kills all the adults. After all adult supervision vanishes,…

n the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding explores the theme of loss of innocence. The novel follows the story of a group of boys who are stranded on a remote Pacific island with no adults. As the storyline progresses, the boys begin to lose their grasp on civilization, regressing farther and farther into savagery. As this regression continues, the previously innocent Ralph begins to witness the savagery that humanity is capable of--one of Goldings central ideas. Finally, this leads to…

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses a secluded island to expose the inner savagery in Jack, as no adults are there to tell him what is and is not acceptable. Without the suppression of primal instincts via society, Jack, as with all humans, succumbs to his bestial nature. At the beginning of the story, Jack and his friends are described as “. . . a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing” (Golding 15). They are…

Savagery in Boys In Lord of the Flies, Golding shows that savagery is an innate part of the human mind by showing the natural progression of savagery in the boys. Throughout the book Golding shows how the innate savagery in Jack’s mind is progressing and starting to show. As Jack and Ralph fight about the shelters, “ [Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up” (51). Golding begins to show savagery spreading through the boys, particularly in Jack by…

Neither the story of Noah and the ark, nor Pi on the lifeboat with a tiger, can be considered objectively true, in all of their details. But both are metaphors that make comprehensible the passes-all-understanding phenomenon of human survival in extreme circumstances. Or as the Japanese investigators finally acknowledge in the summary report with which the novel concludes, Pi’s is “an outstanding story of courage and endurance in the face of extraordinary difficult and tragic circumstances”…