Quotes For Lord Of The Flies Figurative Language Essay

Sam and Eric, the twins that never seem to be apart, always honest, and always working towards the greater good. After Piggy’s tragic death, Jack takes Samneric and they become part of the tribe that he created. However, in Chapter Twelve when Ralph goes to talk to them, they warn him to leave or he might get in trouble.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses figurative language to juxtapose Jack’s jungle and Simon’s jungle to show that as Jack spends time on the island, he becomes increasingly primitive, while Simon uses the isolation of the jungle as a sanctuary from the strife of living on the island. Jack walks into the jungle by himself at dusk, hoping to find some meat to bring back. As he progresses forwards, he assesses the situation by smelling the air. Expecting to find something, he is disappointed when he fails, and “he [lets] out his breath in a long sigh and [opens] his eyes. They [are] bright blue, eyes that in this frustration [seem] bolting and nearly mad” (Golding 48). Jack exhales and is becoming so frustrated it prohibits

I saw it with perfect distinctiveness –all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could nothing else of the old man’s face or person; for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot.” (70) After hearing the old man’s heart beat rapidly and loudly from being frighten, the narrator decides to strike and suffocate the old man with his own bed.

This quote shows that people can be different then they can be, people can ultimately change for the worst.

“There are too many people, and too few human beings.” (Robert Zend) Even though there are many people on this planet, there are very few civilized people. Most of them are naturally savaged. In the book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, boys are stranded on an island far away, with no connections to the adult world. These children, having no rules, or civilization, have their true nature exposed. Not surprisingly, these children’s nature happens to be savagery. Savagery can clearly be identified in humans when there are no rules, when the right situation arouses, and finally when there is no civilization around us.

Sometimes whats ideal in a situation is not what the truth of the situation and can cause your ideals to be lost. In William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies”, he demonstrates a shift in some of the characters from the thought of idealism to the reality and truth of the world. Ralph is a good example of this shift, he starts out thinking the island will be a fun place and they’ll have fun waiting to be rescued, but soon he realizes that there is going to be more hardship and struggles to keep up the moral and hope of rescue. In the book Ralph wanted to keep everyone safe and get them off the island, but Jack wants to be a leader and messes up his plans, making it so that Ralph is alone in his plan to get rescued.

People are controlled by Society in many ways, such as the clothes they wear, and the music they listen to. It all depends on the society. The way people are controlled by society is by the rules that are made, like when Sam n’ Eric became traders it was a rule that they could not leave Jack’s tribe.With the bad society the boys are in on the island, When Piggy gets knocked off the cliff and died the boys were not upset, they were angry and continued to try and kill each other. Since there are no adults on the island they have to take care of themselves which turns into them trying to hunt and kill each other.

In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of English boys in their adolescence are stranded on an island. They crash-land while being evacuated because of an atomic war, so the boys must learn to cooperate with each other in order to survive. The boys are civil at first, but the bonds of civilization unfold as the rapacity for power and immediate desires become more important than civility and rescue. The conflict between Ralph, the protagonist, and Jack, the antagonist, represents the conflict between the impulse to civilization and the impulse to savagery, respectively. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Ralph and Jack’s struggle for power to show that greed and lust for power can corrupt the best

Johnn, lived in the largest tree in the world. He was a purple bird who lived with his brothers. Johnny, as he was known, was different from them. His brothers had green feathers and wings but Johnny was purple. Johnny did not fly but I he tried since he was a little bird. Cruel white eagle scared him every time he tried it until it decided not to fly. Johnny can’t fly, so, he could not attend bird school, and trained as a soldier for the protection of nature.

Ralph: We need an assembly. Not for fun. Not for laughing and falling off the log.

Throughout the novel the boys experience a change from civilization to savagery.  The change from civilization to savagery was in a sense to be awaited because authority was not present but their gruesome roles in the deaths of two of the boys were not because they’re still kids and one wouldn’t think kids are capable of such

“No one said anything but the faces turned to Ralph were intent. He flourished the conch. He had learnt as a practical business that fundamental statements like this had to be said at least twice, before everyone understood them. One had to sit, attracting all eyes to the conch, and drop words like heavy round stones among the little groups that crouched or squatted. He was searching his mind for simple words so that even the littluns would understand what the assembly was about.

While originally, when they are but innocent children, their games include harmless ventures such as swimming in the ocean or throwing rocks in such a way that they will not hurt others, near the end of the novel the “games” take a decidedly darker turn, even resulting in deaths as there are no adults to tell the children to stop when they get carried away (Wilson 55). Both Piggy and Simon turn out to be casualties of this sport (Wilson 56). The hunt itself becomes increasingly violent and at the beginning Jack, the leader of the hunters, could not even bring himself to injure the pig (Wilson 55). As the society decayed and the innocence of the children was lost, the actions outside of these hunting games became more savage as well. “They got his arms and legs. Ralph, carried away by a sudden thick excitement, grabbed Eric’s spear and jabbed at Robert with it. ‘Kill him! Kill him!’” shows brutality and bloodlust out of place in children (Golding 114). Likewise, when Roger is attacked and Simon is killed by the boys the bloodthirstiness and brutal natures of the boys are revealed as well as their descent into savagery, characteristics more fitting of adults than the young and carefree children that arrived to the

The boys began to forge their own society and their own rituals. Reading further into this novel, conflict is beginning to take place with Ralph and Jack. Ralph and Jack represent the civilization and savagery. William Golding makes it clear that all humans are inherently evil. Furthermore, William’s fundamental argument is that human beings are savage by nature. Throughout the novel Golding shows his theme of how twisted and weird human nature is. Golding plugged in aspects of human nature, such as destruction, demoralization, hysteria and panic.

The boys lost their humanity when the idea of the beast began to play a part in the novel. The beast was a figment of their imaginations, but they truly believed that it was real. A boy was mistaken for the beast and this is what triggered their savage behaviour. After these events took place things grew worse. The group of boys split and tried to attack each other. The group of young boys developed murderous habits. Two