Symbolism In Lord Of The Flies

Simon was horrified of the idea that there was a beast out on the island probably stalking the boys to eventually hunt them down and eat them. Simon was the only boy to encounter the beast, for what it really was anyway. In the middle of the night the sounds of the wind whistling and the thumping of the beastie near the shoreline were what Simon heard when he went to go see what this beast really looked like. However, he did not find the beast at all, he instead found the dead body of a parachutist that only appeared as a wild creature in the dark. Realizing the beast was not real he runs to tell the other boys only to get beat and killed because the boys feared that he may have been the beast the whole time. In the story Lord of the Flies by William Golding, he produces various aspects of how boys drifting away from their civilized life styles can lead to savagery and animalistic

A boy named Ralph finds the shell with his friend Piggy by the shoreline of the island. Piggy realizes that Ralph looks like a leader when he holds the conch and tells Ralph to blow into it to call for the other boys on the island. Ever since he first used the conch, the boys elected him the leader because he held the conch, therefore, holding all of the power in his hands. Jack, another boy on the island, thought that he should be the leader because he was in charge of a group of choir boys that got stranded on the island, but Ralph stated that he did not have the conch. This leads to a constant feud between Ralph and Jack because they both believe that they should be in power so they fight over the conch. The constant fighting over the conch shows how it is a symbol for power as the boys believe that whoever holds the conch becomes the person in charge. The hunger for power between the boys is also what ultimately leads to their savagery as they all begin to turn on one