In William Golding, Lord of the Flies, military students are stranded on an island due to a plane crash. The boys on the island all round up and work together, until different opinions and strategies start to break the group apart. In this book, we see how Golding mirrors the Second World War, on the island and the boys living on it. The parting between Jack and Ralph imitates the division of nations during World War Two. Jack's rise to power represents Hitler's reign; he, like Jack, was violent and power-hungry. Jack's hunger for domination blocks the rational part of his thinking causing him to break away from the group, “‘Bollocks to the rules! We're strong--we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat …show more content…
On the island there is a rumor that there is a beast out to kill the boys, and this causes the boys to be scared, this fear reflects the emotions citizens felt during World War Two. One night the boys have a feast but are disrupted by a storm, and what they believe to be the beast running toward them. The fear of the beast caused all the boys to panic, “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.” (Golding, 91). Golding uses word choice to make the scene come across like a violent war, reflecting the battles in World War Two. He uses the words bit and tore, to make us believe the boys are acting rabid and animal-like, to kill the beast. When the boys regain awareness, they realize it was Simon that they had killed. The boys were scared and regretted what they had done, “‘That was murder.’ ‘You stop it!’ said Piggy, shrilly. ‘What good're you doing talking like that?’ He jumped to his feet and stood over Ralph. ‘It was dark. There was that--that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared!’” (Golding, 94). Golding uses repetition showing the boys stuttering, conveying the sadness and overwhelming guilt they felt. This relates to the way soldiers must have felt during World War Two. The remorse of taking another person’s life must scar you for a lifetime, and now