Golding's Lord Of The Flies: Literary Analysis

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Noam Chomsky, philosopher, once said,” There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.” In the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding in 1954. Golding’s novel is about a plane full of British boys crashing into an island. The boys create rules on the island. All goes well, until some boys become savage a lose hope for rescue. Golding’s novel shows us the flaw of man and the flaws of modern society throughout history. Jack’s rise to power symbolizes Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Ralph says to Jack, “The choir belongs to you, of course. They could be the army

As simon was being asked for his opinion on the beast, “ Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness”(89). Simon believed that the beast everyone was afraid of, was, in fact, not a mysterious creature, but simply themselves. Joseph Stalin believed that one could not follow ”two gods,” or question his actions. Everyone who was under his power had to simply follow everything just as he said or you would get killed because he felt threatened by such, that he thought he would lose his power. Simon came running to the boys to tell them about a body he had found, “ The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center. His arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise, something about a body on the hill”(152). In this quote, the boys are killing Simon, thinking that he was the beast trying to attack them, but in reality, it was Simon who was trying to tell the boys about a body that he had found on the hills. Simon’s death coordinates to Jesus Christ’s death when Christ was trying to tell the people of Jerusalem the truth that he held. Losing people, due to killing them because they did not believe what their leader or dictator etc. believed, caused chaos. Chaos could be settled down with law and