Beelzebub Lord Of The Flies Analysis

As the story unravels, it is clear that Golding conveys the reader that the malevolent trait is passed on from father to child and since birth distorts our hearts through his symbolic identification of the beast and meaningful setting. Many readers were specifically penetrated by the scene of Simon conversing with Lord of The Flies, known to everybody as the beast. On the top of the hill, Simon discovered that the true beast is actually a “part of [them]” (Golding 130). Lord of the flies is actually translated as Beelzebub, and is one of the princes of hell, or more likely, devil. With this in mind, the pig’s "sadistic grin" represented taunting rather than the feeling of aggravation when the boys wanted to destroy it. Appearance of the pig’s facial expression represents how the devil has been fooling the boys with the idea of an external beast, while he has been slowly destroying them internally and at the same time pushing them to act evil.

They remembered the time when pilot talked about “the atom bomb,” and they thought their relatives were “all dead” (Golding 14). War is an example of a modern savagery act, which is caused by human cruel thoughts and selfish desires. Golding clearly implies that the children got stranded on the island due to these factors and how the factors negatively affect the young boys’ minds. Children also inherit their nature from parents while growing up and collecting knowledge of surroundings; so when the boys thought of the events and structure back home, they evaluated the actions of adults and acted just as cruelly and fatally. Based on the setting of war and the symbolic identification of the beast as the devil, Golding’s theme of man being inherently evil is