Style Of Writing In William Golding's Cry Of The Flies

Similar to most literary classics, William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies contains allusions to the Christian Bible and character archetypes that convey universal ideas. Golding’s story focuses on a group of British schoolboys who are stranded on an island and ultimately succumb to their innate savage tendencies. Literary analysts often compare components of Lord of the Flies to various aspects in the Christian Bible. For instance, the setting in Lord of the Flies is often linked to the Garden of Eden, and some characters are thought to have religious-inspired names. Critics believe Simon’s name originates from Jesus Christ’s disciple, Peter, whose name was originally Simon. Biblical allusions exist throughout the novel associated with

As everyone sits down for a meeting, the beast’s existence is questioned. “... maybe there is a beast,” (89). Ralph is the first to bring up the idea of the beast and how fear can overcome you. This resembles personification because Golding talks about this idea of the beast as if it is a real, tangible object but really it resembles the savage tendencies deep within ourselves. Furthermore, Golding interprets the savage tendencies seeking through the boys when they believe they need to hunt and kill this beast. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”(186). Jack and his group of hunters become torturers of anything and everything that threatens their little gang. They have lost all of their innocence and let the beast inside them take over their

Literary devices are techniques often used by authors to portray in-depth analyses of major characters, storylines, and central themes, which take place in a story. These analyses help readers understand a message the author is trying to convey. In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses different literary devices in order to demonstrate the boys’ struggle against the lack of society and law on the island, as well as the consequences that have transpired due to this loss. This conflict is evident through the different instances of irony, foreshadowing, and symbolism that occurs throughout the novel.

English novelist and politician Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, once said, “The pen is mightier than the sword.”. We,as humans, have always had the feeling of fear. No matter how many people say they don’t have that feeling, they have it somewhere within them. This fear has always thrived us to think in a radical way and has pushed us to make some good and bad choices in life. Because of this fear human beings have felt the need to protect themselves as much as possible and they believe that by having the most sizable, vigorous, and lavish weapons, they will be safe and protected from all harm and will keep order within society stable. But what Lytton wants us to realize in his quote is that you really don’t

One way that Golding shows the terror is diction. He uses an abundance of superlative words to bring the setting of the story and the life the children were living. For instance, towards the climax of the book to where the boys venture to a place called Castle Rock, Golding sets the setting by writing, “In the short chill of the dawn the four boys gathered round the black smudge where the fire had been, while Ralph knelt and blew(169).” He uses these words to give the audience an image of the sorrowful island that the boys have made. He also writes, “The forests re-echoed; and birds lifted, crying out of the treetops, as on that first morning ages ago(170).” This brings

Piggy symbolises a rope because he holds everyone together. This representation is true because people use rope to tie or hold things together. One quote to show this is “The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach.” Another way piggy symbolises a rope is that he supports the group. One way he supports the group is taking care of the little ones. In conclusion Piggy symbolises a rope because he holds everyone together and supports the group.

What is human nature? How does William Golding use it in such a simple story of English boys to precisely illustrate how truly destructive humans can be? Golding was in World War Two, he saw how destructive humans can be first hand, and how ‘normal’ people can turn into savages. In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Golding uses the theme of human nature to show how easily society can fall, and how self-destructive human nature is towards itself. Throughout the story there are recurring patterns of how twisted and sick human nature can lead us to be. Some of the aspects of human nature Golding referenced to in the book were; destruction, morals, and hallucination. Golding also includes character, conflict, and violence as well as symbolism to portray that humans are inherently evil despite, their attempts to be what they think is right.

Many try to make the correlation between William Golding’s 1954, allegorical novel, Lord of the Flies, and Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Criticism of the human personality. Lord of the Flies takes place on a deserted island, where a group of young boys become stranded, after a plane crash, and strive for survival and order. On this island there were numerous different personalities, many directly relating to the personalities Freud described, as there were numerous characters that encompass the id, ego, as well as the Superego. The superego is the part of the personality that represents the moral part of humans. The Superego depicts the belief of right versus wrong, and in the common representation of the devil on one shoulder, and the angel on the other the Superego is represented by an angel sitting on someone’s shoulder, telling the ego to base behavior on how the action will influence society. In Lord of the Flies the character Simon represents the Superego, as is shown numerous times throughout the novel. Simon’s giving manner, compassion, helping hand, and his introspective manner that realizes that the beast is inside of them, are quintessential examples of the Superego. By analyzing Simon through a Freudian lens, it is evident that he is the ultimate superego because he represents the conscience on the island.

In the past one hundred years, multiple events have led to people questioning the basis of human nature. The World Wars, 9/11, the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War are all just a few instances that challenged the perception of the extent to which humans have the capacity to maliciously and savagely harm one another. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies serves as a perfect fictional example of such questioning. Set on an island during World War II, a group of British schoolchildren become stranded on an island and therefore manage to “escape” the savage war-time conditions at home. However, it quickly becomes evident that savagery abounds on the island as well. Famous and somewhat nihilistic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche would have had insightful analysis regarding the interactions in Golding’s Lord of the Flies, in particular with regard to some of the boys’ desire to obtain power, the assertion of different moralities onto the boys’ lives, and the power struggles that highlight the tale.

In viewing the aspects of the island society, the author William Golding's Lord of the Flies as a symbolic microcosm of society. He chooses to set the children alone in an unsupervised world, leaving them to learn ' the ways of the world' in a natural setting first hand. Many different perspectives can also be considered. Golding's island of marooned youngsters becomes a microcosm. The island represents the individual human and the various characters represent the elements of the human psyche.

William Golding, the author of Lord of The Flies, included adults for only a brief time throughout the novel, playing only a minor role at the end. The absence of adults exemplifies how children require the structure and guidance that only parents can provide, symbolically, how nations newly freed from the British Empire’s control would be better off under English colonial power to survive and maintain order before deteriorating into anarchy.

William Golding has a very dark and distinctive style in his writing. Golding served in WWII thus causing his view of the innate nature of man to be obscured and altered from the truth. He believes that evil lives within the heart of every man and sooner or later, it will come to rise. Throughout the novel, it is clear to see many of the elements that reflect the dark nature of Golding's writing. From the boys throwing rocks at the boys just for kicks to the Lord of the Flies, pure evil is presented to the eyes of the reader. Golding’s most distinct style would have to be accredited to his use of description. In many scenes, an ordinary action is presented in a completely new fashion due to the use of breathtaking descriptive diction. Golding didn't forget to describe other details that would pull the story together as a whole, such as the very intricate detail of the Jungle and how Jack's sweat would, ever so slightly, bead among his forehead. In the heart-wrenching scene where Simon is murdered and is revealed to the reader as the dead body in the sea illuminated by the fluorescent jellyfish like creatures, the reader is able to get a clear and detailed “painting” of the scene, almost like the reader is there, in first person, experiencing the heart break.

Most of the time, the smallest detail yields the biggest impact. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Golding’s inclusion of minute details helps to strongly communicate his theme of man’s innate darkness. On the other hand, Peter Brook’s film, Lord of the Flies, lacks some of the details required to convey Golding’s message properly. Because the novel includes the necessary details to convey the idea of mankind’s inner darkness and violence, the novel conveys Golding’s theme more effectively than Peter Brook’s film. The details that help support Golding’s theme in the novel include vivid imagery and setting, an appropriate characterization of Simon, and detailed symbols.

William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, was an English writer born September 19, 1911 in Newquay, United Kingdom. He grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire, with his parents taking care of him. Golding went to Brasenose College to study Natural Sciences but then he eventually switched to studying English Literature. In 1934 Poems was released, a book of his poetry. He was married to Ann Brookfield and had two children with her. William entered the Royal Navy in 1940 and fought during World War II after five years of teaching English and Philosophy. His most famous novel, Lord of the Flies, was rejected firmly and by many publishers at first. Faber & Faber finally, making a few changes, accepted the novel and had it published in September 1954. He is a winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature and also the Booker Prize. Golding said theater was one of his strongest literary influences, plays like Greek tragedies and Shakespeare. “Man produces evil, as a bee produces honey” Golding says in his writing about his experiences in the Navy. He continued to publish other great novels such as The Inheritors and Pincher Martin, another novel greatly influenced by his wartime. Golding was 81 years of age when he died of heart failure on June 19, 1993 in Perranarworthal, UK.

William Golding’s exceptionally descriptive writing style and the use of imagery in his book, Lord of the Flies, allowed him to test the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction, as if he had actually lived through this experience. Golding was constantly describing the pink granite that was around the island and with these descriptions the reader was able to see how frequent the boys on the island saw these structures. When Jack and Ralph were arguing about the fire, I felt like I could look up in my room and see two boys arguing. Their constant bickering reminded me of getting into fights with my sister. All this came from the thought and time the William Golding put into his unique writing style.