Taylor Swift Lord Of The Flies Literary Analysis

Taylor Swift said, “I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.” In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the characters face a challenge that has the potential to change them entirely. Stranded on an island after a plane wreck, the boys consistently fight between savagery vs. civilization. As the brutality threatens to take over, themes begin to emerge within the story. Themes commonly displayed in literature are displayed in and can be related to other media. Golding uses these themes to showcase the boys’ experience on the island and how it changed them as people. Themes are commonly utilized in literature and other media, so parallels can be found between books and music. Songs by Taylor Swift can be found to reflect

Taylor Swift songs can be found to follow this theme similarly to Lord of the Flies. Taylor Swift writes, “Clear blue water / High tide came and brought you in / And I could go on and on, on and on / And I will, skies grow darker, currents swept you out again / And you were just gone and gone, gone and gone / In silent screams and wildest dreams / I never dreamed of this” (Swift 0:00 - Here, Taylor uses some apt metaphors to describe emotions surrounding her falling in and out of love repeatedly. The clear water is meant to represent the calm and placid feeling before things change. She then goes on to describe the skies growing darker and then losing her love. Her describing the calmness and then the destruction in the same verse emphasizes the calamity of loss. This loss doesn't only have to relate to a loss of love. The loss of innocence holds a comparable weight to the loss of an individual. In Lord of the Flies, Golding writes, “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding, 202). At this moment, Ralph realizes that he is about to be rescued from the island. A moment highly anticipated by readers as one of unequivocal joy turned into a moment of deep reflection and despair. Ralph realizes everything that has been taken from him by this experience. Now, at the young age of twelve, he has experienced first-hand a vicious truth of human nature. As Jack leaned more and more towards savagery, Ralph was forced to confront this evil and in turn, came face-to-face with the truth of how dark mankind can be. He realized he would never be able to go back, that his childlike view of the world could be no more. He was very violently forced to face the more adult point of view on the world at only twelve years old, people are capable of horrid things. In the chorus of the song, Swift sings, “These hands