Lord of the flies

A detailed Summary of Lord of the flies

The novel Lord of The Flies written by William Golding, published in 1954, is a novel with a strong theme of how there is darkness in all of mankind. In the novel the boys realize, and demonstrate evil is all around them.

Killing is a way that evil comes out in them.

"His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing imposed their will upon it taken

away it's life like a long satisfying drink."

Jack was remembering his first kill. His inner evil is now taking control over him. Jack is a symbolic figure of the dark side of mankind, evil. He helps bring the evil out in the boys with his cult like group of killing. His dark side now possesses him; he has a lust to kill.

"[Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!] Ralph to

was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown vulnerable

flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over mastering."

Ralph, who was solely interested on keeping the fire going to be rescued, now wants to participate in Jack's evil cult of killing. Ralph was always the one to listen to the voice of reason (Piggy), but now the evil is silencing the voice. Not only has the dark side taken over Ja

"Simon became in articulate in his effort to express

"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's

Everyone who has a realization of the evil that is all around them, and coming out of them is either killed like Simon, and Piggy, or hunted down like Ralph.

The boys learned that life is uncertain and when you're spinning look at something still or you will get dizzy and fall down, mainly letting the evil come out and play.

Jack's cult wears the blood of the innocence (Pigs) to hid who they are, and turning then into savages

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Approximate Word count = 919
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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