Allegory In Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Predators when they are young, frolic with siblings and play with commodities in their environment, they try to hunt the insects in the air, leaping and pawing at them. Similarly as predators mature, they unknowingly begin to master the skills to hunt until the day that they make their first successful kill, in the same way children learn to play a game. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the game that Jack and the boys create is one of death and destruction leading to the death of certain characters throughout the novel stopped only when an officer arrives at the end. The lust for death being quenched when Jack and the other hunters kill a pig for the first time, which drives the plot of the novel as an allegorical themed text. Portrays

It holds power over the boys silencing them with one long, low, call. Ralph blew into the shell which emitted, “ [a] deep harsh note boom[ing] under the palms, spread through the intricacies of the forest, and echoed bach from the pink granite of the mountain” (17). It’s sound demanded obedience, while seemingly beckoning you to come and listen to it’s melodious sound. The conch is only a shell, but it’s more than that, it rallies the boys together, calls them to arms. When they are gathered around the conch they listen, the shell demands order and respect in it’s presence. Allowing Ralph to control the boys by simply lifting up the shell, letting it gleam in the sun to quiet the boys. Order, is held on the island until the conch is destroyed. As the boulder comes crashing towards Piggy and hits him, “the conch exploded into a thousand fragments and ceased to exist,” (181) never to be seen again. Order is no longer a part of the island for the symbol that represented it is destroyed. With its destruction will also come the savages’ destructive behavior. Strong and sturdy the conch broke into a thousand pieces like the order on the island. The conch is evidence of the novel being an allegorical

Consequently, the long metaphor starts when Jack, as well as the other boys, initially cannot kill a pig because the enormity of the event is weighing on the his consciousnesses. When Jack, Ralph and Simon cannot kill a pig, they feel guilt because they tried to take the life of another creature. Seemingly, Jack only paused for a second, “the pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be,” (31). Consequently, it may seem like the pause before striking is a natural response nevertheless, the deeper meaning of this scene is that the boys in their short time on the island have already attempted something than one week before would have been unspeakable. The long metaphor that begins, here is that the boys are like animals, when animals are young they attempt to kill prey, but rarely succeed because they are too young and inexperienced. The long metaphor continues to wrap around the hunting scenes of the novel as the boys lose what society has taught them. As they learn to hunt, they unfortunately learn to behave like predators, beasts that hunt and kill. When the hunters kill a pig they stop being boys and become predators, sense of humanity begins to dwindle. Jack was the first to become a predator, his thoughts go towards, “memories of the knowledge that had come to them when