Lord of the Flies 10
In William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of boys revert from civilized children to savages. The boys are stranded on a tropical island with no adults in authority to tell them what to do. Only one tool, a knife, and their intelligence provide the boys with the ways to survive. The story shows how the boys gradually loose their ability to behave in a socially acceptable way. They divide into two groups. One group tries to stay with normal behaviors. The other group changes into irrational savages. This descent into savagery is conveyed to the reader through the use of symbolism.The boys themselves represent the different facets of society from the calm and rational to the disorganized and irrational. Two of the boys have leadership skill. Ralph, one of the oldest of the boys, is voted in as the first leader. He brings all of the boys together and starts trying to figure out a way for the boys to get rescued. He sets up a signal fire. If any passing ships come by they may see the smoke and come and rescue them. Jack is the oldest of all of the boys and starts going along wi
Two boys are the victims in the story. Piggy, the fat, nearsighted asthmatic, is a rationalist who functions as Ralph's Prime Minister. He is the intelligent one. It is Piggy who teaches Ralph how to use the conch. Because Piggy has asthma, he can't blow into it himself (1). He has almost all of the answers to the boy's questions, but they do not like him. So they refuse listen to what he has to say. Piggy wears glasses. These symbolize political vision, which, until they break act as "the mirror of magistrates". Simon symbolizes Christ. He has been blessed and cursed with the gift of prophecy, but like Cassandra, on mythology, is doomed to be ignored. He is the sacrifice. He knows the evil that lives in man's devil-ridden nature, but he doesn't know how to say it to the others (2). He is killed by Jack's hunters. Symbolically, he is killed by the evil on the island to save the rest of humanity (3.). The power of good and evil are strong forces in the book and are represented by the pig's head, the conch, the paratrooper, the Beast, and the killing of Piggy. The conch is the symbol of authority and orde
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Approximate Word count = 760
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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