How Does Golding Use Pathetic Fallacy In Lord Of The Flies

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The creative and incredibly descriptive book Lord of The Flies by William Golding expresses a lot of imagery to help set the seen, tone and mood of the story. Golding uses many types of literary devices such as similes and symbolism. The most common and recognizable type of imagery used by Golding is pathetic fallacy; he used it in clever places by describing “[the] masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode”(Golding 145). His uses of imagery make mental images paint themselves; the use of pathetic fallacy is used in more ways than just that, he uses the imagery as a symbolic term as well, by describing the storm is coming which indicates evil and darkness will follow. On the same note of symbolism Golding made