Allegory In Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a story about when a group of boys crash into an island on their shot down plane. The boys end up fighting, causing death and destruction, symbolizing human nature. Allegory is a metaphor in the form of a story transcending to real world events or issues based on the author's beliefs or opinions. The theme of this story is to show how it is in human's nature to act based on their environment. Since 1954, this has not changed, and humans still today act based on the situation.

The Cold War was a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union about information and technology advancement, taking place from 1947-1991. This war affected the lives of people back then, inflicting fear of communist

Later, Ralph calls an assembly, to remind the boys that they are on their own without adults, so they resort to building a fire for a signal with Piggy's specs. Another argument occurs between Jack and Ralph, about which was more important at the time: shelter or hunting. Ralph spies a ship sailing in the distance, they are caught unprepared with no fire, so no signal, starting yet another feud between Jack and Ralph. The symbols in the beginning of the story include the scar from the plane, representing the first mark of destruction the boys had made on the island, which symbolizes their own 'world.' The conch Ralph and Piggy found in these chapters represent order, because this is what called to the rest of the boys on the island, and set the rules. The fire made by Piggy's specs represents hope that they would get

The boys are all in middle of arguing, and as he reaches them the boys are convinced that Simon is the beast, and end up killing him, the ocean washing away his dead body. Then while Piggy and Ralph discuss Simon's death, Piggy told him it was an accident, and the boys were just freaking out. Everyone has now joined Jack and became savages, and began to paint their faces, and they try to steal Piggy's fire, or his glasses. Ralph, Piggy, Sameneric, and a few littleuns call for an assembly, ordering Jack to give back Piggy's specs, and Jack refuses. Then, Roger lets a boulder fall towards Ralph, but luckily Ralph dodges, leading to the unfortunate death of Piggy, who gets hit and is sent into the sea, the ocean again acting as a vacuum and taking another dead body. In the final chapter, Ralph is being hunted down by the savage boys, and they have a stick sharpened at both ends. Running from a fire Roger has lit to get Ralph out of hiding, Ralph runs into a Naval officer, who thinks that the boys time on the island was just a game. The boys begin to weep in front of the officer, and the boys are rescued. Symbols in this chapter include the stick sharpened at both ends, and the boys crying. The stick symbolizing what the boys have done (the pig, Piggy, Simon). The boys were weeping