How Does Golding Use Irony In Lord Of The Flies

William Golding shows irony through Lord of the Flies by the ones with more sense being stabbed in the back and killed in the end. Golding shoes Piggy, Simon, and Ralph how calm and collective they are. Children build society whose foundations will be freedom and justice (Talon). The boys rescue is no salvation. Towards the end of the book Piggy and Simon die, but Ralph did not. They leave the island scorched up like dead wood to go back to a world being burned down as well (Talon). As the book gets more in depth, Golding uses imagery as a source of irony. According to Leah Hadomi, the book is a cluster in disguise, “The fastest reach of this cluster is ironic or mimetic disguise of the narrative itself. The fabula as a whole sets out wearing a mask, pretending to be a novel, which will describe the good life of children on an island as a microcosm of a possible human existence…” (Hadomi). Instead of parts of the story being ironic for an effect, the whole book itself is ironic. It hides itself in the beginning of the book by making the reader think they will be such good little children. Once Piggy finds the conch and tells Ralph to use it as a speaking tool, it makes the reader think that they may actually be well put. “Parallel to the exposure of their naked bodies, and the tearing off of both actual

“The chief was sitting there, naked to the waist, his face blocked out in white and red. The tribe lay in a semicircle before him” (Golding 160). They are known as the chief, and the tribe instead of Jack and the choir. The irony is that is goes from Jack and the choir which sounds so innocent to the chief and the tribe which sounds more on the wild side. Jack is not wearing a shirt and he is painted with white and red. Golding uses imagery in the beginning the show the reader what the characters were wearing. He gradually explains updates on what they are wearing throughout the