Let’s take a step back in time for a moment and rethink the past. At the time where fear took up one’s entire life, one simply had no hope, but just think, is it morally right to give up hope when the end of the world could quite possibly be knocking at your door? Around the time of 1954, William Golding captures the fear that filled the thoughts of normal citizens about a potential nuclear war. Using kids, yes kids, to represent what seems like a parallel universe; the power of science and mythology is given an entirely new meaning within a 291 page novel. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding presents the idea that the unknown can be the most powerful thing in the world until the belief is broken by one person. Sure, for many year people lived in complete dread not knowing what could happen to them in the next …show more content…
In today’s world, anything is possible and there’s no way of knowing whether or not a man could become the greatest serial killer or a natural disaster could wipe out the human race as we know it. Simply put, there is nothing we can do (not even time travel can help) to look into the future to better prepare ourselves, time is a game of waiting, and no one will ever know what’s behind the door until it strikes.
Throughout the entire book, William Golding showed us that time often turns into a game of wait and hope, testing our patience with the use of items in and around the island. Life has to revolve around something, and fire was the chosen item that symbolized something far more than what we traditionally think of fire. The boys in Lord of the Flies start their new life on an isolated island by starting a fire in sight of rescue from smoke being emitted into the atmosphere. Truly, this fire was a guide to a new life (on the island and learning to be independent without