What Is The Conch Shell Symbolize In Lord Of The Flies

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All the boys in lord of the flies always go back to their old behaviors and derive all their good behavior. Lord of the flies was written by William Golding, he wrote the book about young boys who find themselves alone on a deserted island and they start to develop systems but without adults to serve to watch them the children eventually become evil and savage. The boys are innately evil because when they are put into a situation where they can obviously take advantage of the situation they take it, no matter even if there is bad intentions. In the book they only care about one thing and that is themselves. In Lord of the Flies the boys are savage, take bad advantages and are cruel. The conch shell was used to talk in meetings but then evolved into evil. Not only that but the signal fire was used to signal help but used it to their use and did cruels and unskippable behaviors with it. How blameless a simple shell can be the conch shell symbolizes how evil situations can be. In this book, roger, …show more content…

After killing the pig they leave the head on a stake as a offering to the beast hopefully getting an offering. On the other hand the savegery with killing the pig shows the evil inside each of them. The pig head becomes a symbol of evil inside each of the boys. “This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.”(Golding 106). Piggy, ralph and jack tribe were all chanting and dancing for a hunting call to find and kill a pig but then turns into a chant to kill the beast. They become very violent and they become very confused and get simon and the beast mixed up and they end up killing simon. This murder symbollizes the savergy in the boys and how evil and cruel they are. “"_Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!_" The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its