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Honors Essay Prompts form The Lord of the Flies 1. Explain the symbolism of Conch shell and how it relates to Piggy’s death In The Lord of the Flies, the conch shell plays an important role on how the kids organize themselves and how they decide their rules. Piggy thought of the idea of blowing the conch to unite everyone on the island, and told Ralph to do it. The noise of the conch was so powerful that all of the kids on the island started to respect the conch and the one who blew the conch…

In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies, he uses symbolism to express his ideas through items and characters. Symbolism is a process in which an author uses things or ideas to represent something with a larger meaning. In his book he uses things like glasses of one of his characters, a knife, a conch shell, a beast, and a fire. William uses items as symbols to represent the significance of human civilization vs savagery. William Golding was a British novelist and poet, who was born in 1911…

Symbolism is often used by authors to represent important ideas or qualities in literature. Objects, situations and even people, are used to represent those specific concepts that the author is trying to communicate to the reader. In the novel, Lord of the flies, William Golding applies symbolism throughout the book to represent the theme of civilization and savagery that is explored in the novel. One of the very first symbolic objects was the conch shell discovered on the beach by Ralph and…

Lord of The Flies by William Golding is an allegory of civilization and how human nature can easily corrupt what may seem like a perfect society. The protagonist of the novel, Ralph, immediately takes charge of a group of boys whose plane crashes onto an island. His innocence to the dynamics of a community symbolizes the belief that human nature is to be civilized. This completes the theme of the novel which is that civilization is compromised by the savagery of human nature. Ralph’s symbolic…

The most prominent symbol in Lord of the Flies is the conch shell found by Piggy and Ralph. This shell is an important part of the story throughout, and it has a sizable impact on the plot. The conch shell is displayed as a symbol of power and order, and it is what helps keep the boys civilized when stranded on a deserted island all by themselves. William Golding develops the conch shell as an object of extreme power and influence by writing the characters to have a dog like obedience to the…

The conch shell is very important piece in the novel, Lord of the Flies, for its significance stands for democracy. It was first discovered by Ralph and Piggy when they were wandering around the island. On page 18, Piggy says, “What’s that?” Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds. “A stone.” “No. A shell.’ ’ Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.-- Ralph spoke absently. The shell was interesting and pretty and a…

Societal Savagery There is an evil, from immoral actions and villainous desires, possessed in all beings. Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is a complicated and allegorical novel that suggests this theory. When a plane is shot down after being mistaken for a military craft, the school boys that survive the crash are forced to create civilization on an isolated island. With the outside world engulfed in war, two boys, Jack and Ralph, attempt to bring order to the island. This becomes…

In William Golding’s novel, “The Lord of the Flies” starts out as a group of young boys get stranded on an island with no adults. They are forced to build their own set of rules and society. Golding portrays many unique conditions and situations that symbolize ideas or concepts. At first, this seems like a paradise, a dream come true but it soon leads to conflict. Such symbols as Simon and holiness, fire and power, to beasts and darkness, to pigs and craziness are all what help Golding put the…

In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, she writes a story about a boy Jerry and his quest to swim through the tunnel. The story may seem normal at first, and may even seem like a quest, but like many authors Lessing has encoded explicit messages and meanings within her story in order to express deeper meaning. Lessing does this in the piece “Through the Tunnel” using imagery to express the hidden explicit message. As Lessing wrote, “They were big boys - men, to Jerry. … He felt he…

Lord of the flies is about a bunch of boys who had crashed on an island because of an imaginary nuclear war. On the island the boys try to survive how they best see fit at the time. Jack and Ralph, the two main characters represent savagery versus civilization. This conflict between Jack and Ralph have an effect on all the other boys who are also stranded on the island. Savagery versus civilization is first used through the symbols of the conch. Ralph was the first to use the conch to call…