The events and characters in Lord of the Flies are symbolic of historic figures and
             Patterns of societal behaviour. Discuss.
             I believe that the events and characters in the novel Lord of the Flies are symbolic of historical figures and patterns of societal behaviour. During the Second World War Golding joined the navy and he was involved in some important events in the war which changed his perspective of the world. He was appalled by the inhumanity and evil of Nazism and the Third Reich. He looked for an explanation of this brutality and savagery shown by the Nazis and he came to the realisation that it came from a part of human nature. He saw that any human being had the capabilities of being brutal and inhumane. William Golding's novel, Lord of the flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times. When a plane crashes on a deserted island, a group of schoolboys find themselves in an unfamiliar situation. They are excited by their new freedom and the absence of adults. Soon however, the boy's sense of order begins to collapse and "man's essential illness" or the savagery of mankind begins to show itself on these vulnerable schoolboys. The island society in Lord of the Flies is almost a magnified version of society in the modern world. In this essay I will discuss, the relationship between the events that took place in the Lord of the Flies and some real life historical events, as well as the way Golding creates his characters in Lord of the Flies as a representation of historical societal character types. In the following few paragraphs I will be discussing; how Jack's rise as leader in the Lord of the Flies is symbolic to that of the rise of such dictators like Stalin and Hitler, how the central characters in Lord of the Flies are similar to societal character types and how the events in Lord of the Flies are similar to that of real life events.
             In the Lord of the Flies Ja...