William Golding wrote the novel,"Lord of the Flies," to show how boys would react without rules; he used many allegorical items to show this as his main theme. for example he used the young boys that were trapped on s island, the conch found by Piggy and Ralph in the beginning of the adventure, and even the island itself played a huge role as a symbolic artifact in Golding's story, and with all of this he created the notorious,"Lord of the Flies."
Firstly, the boys are a symbol of adolescence and ignorance. Boys are mainly needed to have been told what to do. Being so young they are ignorant to most morals and principles they should be introduced to through the many stages of maturity. The "Savages," or unlearned cubs of nature turn to primal instinct, and to them that is doing what they feel like, and retaliating on anything that goes against that. Unfortunately this is one of
the reasons why Simon and Piggy were slaughtered.
Second, the conch, discovered by logic and wielded by a leader was the only thing that overlooked the immaturity on the island. It was the symbol for organization and leadership: it kept most of the boys civilized for the time being, and after it was crushed, chaos triumphed, as the hunt for the leader began. And, the only thing that kept our leader alive was the end of ",The island."
The most important analogy was the island. The island represented everything from hope to despair; the island was the trap that encumbered our leaders, savages, followers, and learned minds of advice. An island to most symbolizes beauty or leisure, and for the boys it was the same, until the island drew the beast from the children. The island then became a
prison, and to some, the beginning of a new civilization; freedom, to claustrophobia was derived from each boys' soul until they turned on each other. The island became a graveyard, a crime scene, and hell.
Writing this must have been like writing a manuscript for a freed soul with no possible consequences for there actions, and it was magnificently put together by William Golding. Showing how boys react without rules in such depth could only be done by using theses fantastically strategic symbols and allegory's.
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