Lord of The Flies

The literary novel Lord of the Flies is an allegorical text that is complex and identifies common day issues through the eyes of its author William Golding, who had experienced the horrors of WWII. Golding created a story where a large group of British boys crash land on an island and are stranded. In the beginning, the boys try to stay civilized by selecting a leader and following that leader and a direct set of rules. Ralph one of two-man characters was chosen as leader. His rival Jack…

that are magnets, with contradicting feature that help us show who we are. He articulates that no matter who you are in the universe, you are a foil to someone or something as revealed in his work, Lord of the Flies. In his novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the contrasting images of flies and the butterflies and the characterization of Jack and Simon to show that everything in life has duality. The characterization of Simon represents the Christ-like figure, the one who is willing…

The Beast Within Us Behind the mask of the frightful beast lies a person consumed by fear, blinded by his inability to comprehend his actions. In the novel “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding, It shows a group of boys on their way back home when they crash land on an island and must learn how to survive with no adults. Throughout the story we see how the boys become savage and start to lose their minds. Their fear causes them to become ruinous and unaware of their actions. In the video…

Simon "In each of us, two natures are at war - the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer." In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there is a battle happening of good against evil on the island in which the boys are stranded. All of the boys give into this evil and become savages, but one boy does not. The character of Simon symbolizes good and it contributes to individual against society because Simon is doing the opposite…

the young boys, they believe that if they change the way their faces look, then it would turn them into another person that isn't theirs: "the comment relates to the hunters from a sense of individual responsibility for their masked deeds" ("lord of the flies"). Golding portrayed the boys to be bloody hungry monsters with their hunting paint and masks on but without it they are innocent boys.…

“Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us” (Golding 89). Simon, a main character in William Golding’s allegorical novel, Lord of the Flies, is portrayed as a Jesus figure, as he is the only moral boy on the island. Through a group of British schoolboys, Lord of the Flies displays the underlying savagery in all human beings even the most civilized ones. Simon, through his actions, thoughts and dialogue, is parallel to Jesus in a multitude of ways. To begin, Simons actions connect directly…

violence feeding off each other, your society is doomed to fail. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, They boys threaten to skewer each other to make others fear them. They also abuse each other. Lastly, the boys are so afraid of this creature they formed in their minds, they become violent and physically harm each other. In Lord of the Flies fear and violence are big themes that are very interchangeable. In Lord of the Flies fear led to violence in many places one of them being with Roger.…

Lord of the Flies Relevancy Essay Do you feel safe with the current stability of the world’s nuclear superpowers? Especially with the modern advances in nuclear weaponry making them even more deadly and widespread. In the story, “Lord of the Flies” boys from a school in the U.K. crash while flying over the Pacific Ocean during the Cold War. With no parents and nothing stopping them from complete savagery they start to try to create a civilization to survive and get rescued. After the ruler,…

beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs” (Martin 270). Jack, one of the boys who is helpless after the crashing of their plane, embraces his inner beast in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in such a way that it affects his fellow survivors and all of the boys’ resolve to stay true to the humanity they have. Jack, the Devil Figure in this novel, expresses a life lesson about the slope to savagery through his devolution on a…

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a book that, in my opinion, will remain a timeless classic for ages to come. This dystopian novel was able to almost perfectly describe in a short 285 pages, how kids, specifically boys, would act in an event such as a getting stranded on an uninhabited island. From the initial excitement of having no adults around, to the unsuccessful attempt to find a leader amongst themselves, to the vivid imagination of the boys that would ultimately turn them into…