Allegory In Lord Of The Flies

Piggy’s spectacles, too, symbolize the weakness of intellect and (as a tool for making fire) the loss to humanity when intellect is quashed by superstition and irrationality. The beast, the parachutist, the fire, the killing of the sow—all assume symbolic significance in the novel, justifying the label of allegory that often applies to this work (Carter, 1).”

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the symbols of good and evil through the Lord of the Flies and Simon. In order to convey the underlying message, that the fear of the unknown brings out the evil in humans. William Golding's fictional piece, evil is symbolized through the lord of the flies because he represents the loss of civilization and innocence. This quote shows that the character Lord of the Flies gets into the boy's thoughts, “There isn’t anyone to help you, only me. and I’m the beast fancy to think you can hunt and kill. You knew, didn’t you? I'm part of you. Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why these things are the way they are?” (Golding chapter 8). This quote proves, that the Lord of the Flies are trying to get into the boy’s heads and they are slowly becoming less civilized.

Once the biguns start to fear the beast, chaos takes over the island. Fear of the beast drives the boys to do things they would never have done before, including murder. The first one to see the beast for what it truly is, Simon, hallucinates a conversation with it in the clearing. He speaks with the pig’s head Jack’s tribe mounted in the clearing, and it taunts him that “there isn’t anyone to help [him]. Only me. And I’m the beast” (143). The name Simon gives the disembodied head is “The Lord of the Flies”. This is another name for Beelzebub, or, translated, Satan. The Lord of the Flies clearly states that it is the beast, which confirms that the beast is not an actual creature the boys can hunt down. If Satan is a parallel to the beast, then the beast must be the embodiment of the evil in people, in this case, the very boys who are trying to defeat the beast. The evil and destruction the beast brings upon the boys is demonstrated when it drives them to finally kill. During a thunderstorm, Jack’s tribe is in a panicked frenzy, and is doing a dance to ward off the inevitable thunder. They blame it on the beast, and try to overpower it, chanting “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (152). They are so crazed that when Simon wanders into their midst, they mistake him for the beast and beat him to death. Before the idea of the beast prevailed in their minds,

Initially, the “beast” in the Lord of the flies is fear. In the article on Doc A, it states that, “They externalize these fears into the figure of the “beast.” This illustrates that the fears of people, or in this case the boys, began to materialize, and eventually transforms into the beastly figure in the novel. In Doc B, the boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark on his face, claims to have seen a “beastie.” He goes on to to elaborate to the other boys that “ It was a snake-thing ever so big.” This representation of the “beast” probably symbolizes the boy’s fears.

Thesis Golding’s work uses allegory to portray that the nature of man is inherently evil. Key Points 1. When their plane crashes onto the desert island, the young English boys are left to establish a government of their own. At the unanimous approval of the group, Ralph becomes the leader. This decision is primarily because he is the one who blew the conch shell that gathered the lost boys.

In the book of Lord of the Flies the pig head is the pure representation of evil, the pig head being Simon shows that Simon has evil. Another one of William Golding's examples of teaching his theme is the beastie. The beastie in the Lord of the Flies is never real; the only reason a beastie is ever brought up is because of the boy's own internal fear. Their fear is shown when Ralph says “Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast” (Golding 89). This shows the fear in the boys.

The Lord of the Flies – Artifacts of Allegory The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is an allegorical tale of a group of boys stranded on an island, who fall prey to their natural and not so natural instincts. Set in major wartime, the boys are shipped out from the war zone, but, somewhere on their route, their plane crashes. The story covers the idea of civility vs. savagery and the natural instinct of human nature through the use of many symbols and artifacts in their island life. Below are just a few of said artifacts. The Conch Shell

This symbol is known as the Lord of the Flies. The Lord of the Flies is the severed pig's head that Jack places on a stake as an offering to the beast. This symbol becomes the most important image in the novel when Simon seems to speak to it, telling him about how evil lies within every human heart. When it comes to the death of Simon, the Lord of the Flies becomes both a physical sign of the beast and a symbol of evil. "The body lifted a fraction of an inch from the sand and a bubble of air escaped from the mouth with a wet plop" (Golding 154).

Golding’s Lord of the Flies has a major character development of one of the most thought provoking and important characters in the novel. It’s whether you choose to believe this character as an actual character that will help you understand the true meaning of the Beast. In truth, the Beast is the figment of imagination in almost all the boys and through the irrationalities brought through fear of it; they proclaim on all sorts of ideas of what the Beast may be. I for one believe that the Beast is a character as it represents fear and the savagery inside us all and is a major idea in the novel rather than a reoccurring theme. However, I believe that one particular derivation of the Beast means much more than should have been expounded upon. Simon’s Beast

The novel is the lord of the flies, the allegory is that humans are bent on destroying each other. The book is about a group of boys that crash land on an island during a world war and they have no parents with them so they are free to do whatever they feel. So one boy named Ralph was dedicated to make them survive, and this kid named Piggy helped him do so. They called a group of boys with a conch and set up for survival. One of the boys named Jack was jealous of Ralph and started to rebel against him which wound up causing 2 deaths and the island to burn down.

Lord Of the Flies by William Golding is an allegory, because although it has a literal plot line it also has a symbolical plot line. An allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Some British school boys were flying on a plane and it gets shot down. The boys survive on an island and have to deal with what they call the ¨beast”. The “beast” is not a physical thing but a symbol of their fear and their evil doings.

Some speculate that the people who commit extremely appalling acts as adults were raised to commit these ghastly crimes, while others believe that everyone is born with an evil already inside of them. In William Golding’s psychological fiction Lord of the Flies, the idea of being born innately evil is recurrently alluded to. The novel is about a group of young British boys who crash land on a remote island. They are left with no laws to tell them what they can or cannot do, and are extremely frightened of a so called “Beast” that they expect lives on the island. In the Lord of the Flies, “The Beast” symbolizes the evil and devilish proclivity inside of all humans. Through the use of “The Beast”, William Golding illustrates how the novel is

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, which is set during World War II, English school boys, escaping war in England, crash on a deserted tropical island. From the protected environment of boarding school, the boys are suddenly thrust into a situation where they must fend for themselves. In order to survive, the boys copy their country’s rule for a civilized life by electing a leader, Ralph. He promises order, discipline, and rules for the boys so that they form a small civilized society. This civilized society does not last. Struggling with Jack who wants to be the leader and the boys’ fears of the unknown, Ralph is unable to maintain control, and the boys fulfill Golding’s perspective that human

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