Lord Of The Flies Allegory Analysis

The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of boys who build a civilization on an island. But turns into them being savages. Allegory is a hidden meaning or text representing a trait or event in the real world. The purpose of an allegory is to transcend the context to make it deeper and make it symbolic. The purpose of lord of the flies allegory is to show how the humans acted during the cold war. Humans have a tendency to be savages and having civilized rules to correct and minimize it. The theme finds the allegory because the allegory is the over all the themes in one text. The themes in lord of the flies come together to form one allegory about human nature. Piggy 's glasses represent new technology to human but cause chaos with the new technology by causing the fire. Another

The scar represents that man ruin Britt and nature merely by entering it. Piggy 's glasses represent new technology given to men. It helps them by creating a huge wildfire for a signal fire. The island represents beauty and paradise for the boys to civilize on. In chapters 5-8 they worry about the beast as a dead pilot parachuted down dead. They have a feast with the pig. The put the head on a stick and Simon later imagine that he could communicate with the head then he faints. Symbols In these chapters is the pig head and the beast. The pig 's head represent the first time we hear the title lord of the flies. But it is a symbol for a lack of knowledge because of them killing the mother pig they can 't feed on the baby pigs for a natural food source. The beast represent the evil in the world or fear. They fear it will attack them. In chapters 9-12 the are drifting from civilized to savages and Simon wakes up from his faint and speaks to the kids and gets beaten up by the kids. Fulfilling what the lord of the flies told him. They set a fire upon the whole island. They finally reach civilization by a passing