William Golding 's Lord 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

Throughout the history of humanity, humans have different behaviors that change depending on what situations they are in. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo spent many years exploring human nature and has developed many theories about human behavior. One of Zimbardo’s ideas is about situational factors that states “one’s behavior is assumed to be dependent upon their current circumstances, situation or the environment that they are in.” He concluded the concept of situational factors after his Stanford Prison Experiment, in which he gave authority to regular people and observed any changes. The experiment proved that people’s behavior will change when they are in different situations. Zimbardo also believes that evilness is the exercise of power to harm people in anyway possible, so a five year old who teases others to Adolf Hitler would be classified as perpetrators of evil.

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.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic novel and portrays just how the society surrounding us can corrupt our once pure nature No one is born a killer, no one is born with an intense compulsion to kill, the island that the boys are stranded on has a very unusual, corrupting society; A society that erodes the boys innocence through the power struggle between Jack and Ralph, readers see the transfer from innocent to savagely through the hunting and Piggy’s death.

Many philosophers believe that a correct government can make a strong society. However, these philosophers do not agree on what form of government is the most “correct”. English philosopher John Locke believed that Man is inherently moral and that the purpose for government is to grant the fundamental rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to its people. Another philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, however, held the belief that mankind is naturally evil and that society needs an absolute central authority to contain this evilness and grant its people with the common protection. Hobbes believes that in a state of nature, when there are no rules and everyone is granted equal power, the inherent evil impulses of Man are exposed. One

In William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, a few dozen boys are stranded on an island after a plane crash. The six to twelve year old kids turn to savages under the lead of the older males, and ultimately cause their own deaths. However, the smaller boys, such as Piggy and Sam and Eric, are the hope and reason of the group. Golding’s purpose of writing the book was to show that the defects in society originate at the defects in human nature. Golding allows the little ones to have no identities or personalities. This is symbolically showing that in society, the ignorant and innocent children are the only hope to a humane society. Innocence is purity, and the innocent children, in which are not corrupted by the bad people and things in the

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

“Every hand outside the choir except Piggy’s was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hands grudgingly into the air” (Golding 23). This is the start of the first conflict between the two.

To be an effective society, itś important to have a few key qualities such as teamwork or cooperation and order. These make achieving goals much easier, and in the end, it leads to success by completing the tasks needed to get towards the goal, whether that be obtaining food or conquering an entire continent. In Golding 's Lord of the Flies, a lack of mutual respect between the leaders and followers as well as the failure to unite themselves to work together for the same goals, resulted in chaos, and ultimately, the division and failure of their society on the island.

“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness” (Werner Herzog). In places such as the Middle East, many places are in chaos. With much of the time spent fighting against others, for what cause or what price, seems irrelevant. However, many times during the fighting, when everything is scarce, the true natures of people come out. If there is a shortage in food, or medical supplies, people are not afraid to turn on once neighbors to steal if need be. Once “the law” stops caring, there is nothing stopping people from doing whatever they like. In the Middle East, in the places where war is going on, many people don’t really notice the beasts around themselves. In Lord of the Flies, Golding shows an island

On the surface, laws are often viewed as restrictions that take away from personal freedom. Many see rules as a type of control and it’s easy to make sense of the idea that without laws, we would have absolute freedom. However, philosopher John Locke did not agree with this concept and stated, “For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” This paradox claims just the opposite; that without law there is no freedom. Locke’s theory can be applied to William Golding’s Lord of the Flies through his characters’ actions in Chapters 4-6.

The beginning of the book, Lord of The Flies, started out very slow for me. It took a lot more time to really draw me in which was a little different than most books. What really took the most time for me was when the author, William Golding, was explaining the beach. It felt like he wrote out every detail of the beach he possibly could, which was, for me, really boring to read. However, throughout him explaining what the beach was like, I could connect to parts of it. When he was explaining the pool by the beach, it reminded me of this years beach trip. The tide left pools of water that you could float around in before actually getting into the waves. I also really liked the part when Ralph found the conch shell on page fifthteen. It reminded

“Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?” (Golding 180). This quote, uttered by Piggy during a last ditch effort to heal severed ties among the boys of the island, is the epitome of the struggle that humans have had to face for perpetuity while attempting to find the ideal system in which to regulate a body of people. British novelist William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, beautifully chronicles the differing governing structures of both democracy and anarchy. Throughout the duration of the story, the beneficial sides, as well as the pitfalls of each authoritative method, are revealed through the various consequences that result from the decisions made. While both the democratic and anarchic governing styles were employed by the misplaced island refugees, the democracy style of management was built around the basis of structure and order while the anarchy approach to regulation lacked any form of organization or discipline. As both forms of government were showcased amid the same congregation of boys, many contrasting ideas and beliefs between the two became immensely distinguishable. Some of the disparities of the systems that are exhibited through the course of the book include varying rationale used in decision making, the contrasting character the leaders of each movement possessed, as well as divergent symbols that represent each methodology.

Can you precisely remember what happened to you exactly five years ago? The odds are that you cannot. If you have forgotten that, what else have you forgotten? Lord of the Flies is a book which places ordinary people in an unordinary situation. Schoolboys are stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere, alone. They quickly realize that having no adults means no rules. It is a novel of forgetfulness. Facts are suppressed, people are forgotten, and far too many are willing to look the other way. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies illustrates how man chooses to ignore unpleasant things through his characters’ obliviousness to the truth to demonstrate how mankind lives his entire life in denial because of his subconscious desire to preserve his own well-being.

This novel was written during WWII and one can deduce that the war is the reason why the boys were on the plane and it is the cause of death of the man on the parachute.