Inherently evil behaviour and the breakdown of civilisation is a major theme in William Golding’s novel “The Lord of the Flies” and Golding’s beliefs are. A group of boys are stranded on an island after a plane crashed. The group of boys face a series of challenges and life-changing experiences while trying to survive. Golding uses the characters, setting and events in the novel to help convey his ideology and how the island represents the real world. Although all the boys have different backgrounds, it is shown that all of the boys can complete unethical acts and the savagery lies within everyone and needs to be found. The Lord of the Flies is a story of facts. The novel conveys how different people find the savagery lying within them and …show more content…
Golding uses the island to represent the world and the issues that were happening in that period (World War I). The island represents paradise and the Garden of Eden in the bible at the start of the novel before the boys ‘sinned’ and became savages. The boys had all they needed and didn’t have to turn on each other and ruin the civilisation, but they chose to turn on each other. The forest on the island illustrates the boy's descent into savagery. It depicts how the boys were slowly falling into chaos and the destruction of civilisation in their democracy. The mountain symbolises power, danger, and fear. The mountain represents power because it is the place where rescue is. The key to rescue is keeping the fire on the mountain alive so that if a plane or ship passes, they will be found. Danger is found on the mountain because nature represents the evil behaviour lying within every boy and fear is also found on the mountain because when the dead parachutist lands, all the boys are scared to go up the mountain. “We've been on the mountaintop and seen water all around”. This quote's literal meaning is about how they think they know everything about the mountain. The allegorical meaning is how they haven’t fully found themselves yet, and everyone still has things that people need to unravel. Another example of how ideology is conveyed in the novel is