Golding uses allusions to the Bible to help develop his theme, a deeper meaning that he is trying to make. For instance, when Golding first describes the island the boys land on, he is making an allusion to the Bible’s Garden of Eden. The island is perfect, abundant with food and resources, just like the Garden of Eden. Simon and Ralph have been working on huts all day while Jack has been hunting unsuccessfully. Ralph and Jack have an argument about importance of huts over hunting, Simon wanting to escape this goes to the forest. Golding describes the scene as, “Flower[s] and fruit[s] gr[owing] together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture” (Golding 56). In comparison to the Bible, when God is creating the Garden of Eden, from the ground in Eden God made “...every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (New International Version, Genesis 3-8-10). …show more content…
Furthermore, in the story of Adam and Eve, God made it so that ““Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame” ( New International Version, Genesis 3: 25). This is identical to when Ralph and Piggy crash on the island and meet each other, after realizing there are no adults, Ralph jumps onto the sand and the water. His first instinct is to ““...und[o] the snake-clasp of his belt, lugged off his shorts and pants, and stood there naked, looking at the dazzling beach and the water” (10). Both Adam and Eve and Ralph are unembarrassed about their nudity, and Christianity, bathing in a pool is a symbol of