Lord of the Flies
This novel, Lord of the Flies, was written by William Golding. The novel is filled with many symbols, which support the theme to the novel. Throughout this novel you will see Golding use Objects, Characters and settings as symbols. The novel starts with a tropical island, which a group of English boys discover after their plane crashes, killing all the adults on board. The island itself is a symbol. The island is to be the landing place of the crashed plane because an island is isolated from the rest of society. The boys have no contact with the outside world and must look to themselves to solve the problems of their own micro-society. In this way, the island, which symbolizes isolation, serves as a perfect weakness of human nature which eventually comes out. Ralph, a tall boy with "fair hair," seems perfectly calm and almost excited with the fact of being free of adults and on his own in this strange island. Ralph wandered out of the tropical jungle paradise. Ralph thought to himself "We are going to have fun on this island". Ralph was enjoying himself, while his friend Piggy, a pudgy boy with thicklensed glasses was worried. The glasses symbolize the voice of reason and logic among the boys. Piggy defends his glasses even
The boys go from wanting to be rescued too not even caring at all. Jack finds the pig again and kills it. Simon also has a special connection with the parachute man. Without Piggy to help Ralph it is very possible that Ralph may have lost sight of things and given in to the Beast. Later on Jack gathered his loyal hunters and struck out into the jungle to become his own tribal chief. Throughout the novel though, the boys begin to care less and less about keeping the fire going. On the top of the mountain they found a dead man in a parachute as well. The conch shell later on becomes a powerful symbol of civilization and government. A whole load of schoolboys had been thrown overboard on the island before their plane crashed. Ralph commented "Can't they see? Can't they understand? Without the smoke signal we'll die here?" Ralph is trying to keep the idea alive but the boys are starting to care more about other things and less about keeping the fire going. He later tried to kill Ralph at the end of the novel, but Ralph and everyone is saved as he runs into a naval officer, who asks what is going on and where the adults are.
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