Title The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is an allegorical novel that is based on something that had happened during the time of the Cold War. An allegory is a literature piece that can be analyzed and interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning in it, usually by using symbols to create some type of moral. The dystopian novel is about a big group of boys and they had just crash landed on a deserted island and have to learn how to survive on their own. Although in the end the boys survived, it proved to be very difficult at times from fighting over power to be frightened and confused because they do not have a real leader that knows what they are doing. For example, in the novel The Lord of the Flies, the conch, Piggy’s glasses, and the island all have their own hidden meaning to show that the novel is an allegory. …show more content…
He had called a meeting in order to figure out what had happened, what they should do, and who should be chief. “‘Then we’ll have to look after ourselves.’ Secure on the other side of Ralph, Piggy spoke timidly. ‘That’s why Ralph made a meeting. So as we can decide what to do.’”(page 26) Whenever somebody is holding the conch they are deemed worthy to speak out their ideas, but only the chief is allowed to call a meeting. The allegorical connection between the book and the conch starts out with just a simple shell giving authority to small schoolboys, but turns into a complex symbol showing that a simple object like a shell can give children order and