William Goulding wrote this novel with the purpose of leaving his readers in thought, like many authors he had some societal flaw he wanted attention brought to. This literary work has brought a large amount of controversy with it. The over-arching meaning of this novel is slightly vague and leaves a lot of room for varied interpretations. However, even with an unclear intendment, there is an endless amount of morals and lessons to be learned from this writing. Goulding uses a variety of techniques to portray his obscure message: he utilizes the controversial balance between good and evil that resides within all people, as well as the value of age in exasperating situations. His use of detailed symbolism only strengthens the enormity of the removal of society from the children. From the beginning, the lack of adult influence is extremely apparent. Adults symbolize many things to children such as stability and at the very core, life. When Ralph realizes there are no adults he doesn’t think much of it and the magnitude of that discovery doesn’t hit him until a while later. When it does begin to …show more content…
This meant not only the decline of their mentality, but now the intensifying threat that blanketed them. The beast becomes a more present danger and the entire atmosphere begins to intensify. Not long after this, Piggy the main voice of reason, which no one wants to listen to is thrown to his death and then crushed with a giant rolling boulder. A frenzy of murder has erupted and if it were not for the rescue by the British navy Ralph would have died, and it is my assumption more would die after