Allegory in Lord of Flies by William Golding

 

Summary of Lord of Flies:

Lord of the Flies is a great novel written by William Golding.  In this novel, he discusses how some innocent young boys from a well-civilized society were struck on a deserted island and, to survive there the civilized children create their own rules and regulations without any adults. They make their own government and in the end, become brutal and cruel. This also led them to distrust friendship, divide themselves, and become enemies. The process of turning innocence into cruelty also indicates how the world is going towards darkness. The hunger for power is engulfing us and the results will be the same as the lord of flies.

The play starts with a group of boys stuck on an unknown island during a war. Ralph and Piggy, two of the lads, find a shell on the beach. Piggy then discovers it may be used as a bugle to call the other boys. Once they were all there, the boys got to work choosing a leader and coming together to create a plan to be saved. They elect Ralph as their leader, and Ralph names Jack as his deputy to oversee the boys who will go food hunting for the whole group. Simon joined Ralph, Jack, and another child to explore the island. Ralph instructs them to start a signal fire when they return so that passing ships will notice them. Using Piggy's sunglasses to focus sunlight, the guys can light some wood, but during this, the children enjoy playing more and don't pay heed to the burning fire one day a large log of wood catches fire and one of the boys got missing so other lads thought he was burned and dead.

When Ralph and Piggy discover a ship sails by on the horizon but as the fire burns down they are shocked. Furious, Ralph approaches Jack, but the hunter has just come back with his first kill, and all the hunters appear to be caught up in some odd rage, acting out their search in a kind of crazed dance. Jack slaps Piggy when he insults him. To restore order, Ralph blows the conch shell and instructs the boys. It becomes immediately apparent during the meeting that some of the lads are beginning to feel frightened. 

A parachute fell down at night and two young children thought there was a monster on the island and started searching at night. Jack and Ralph climb the mountain. They observe the parachute's layout from far away and believe it is like a massive, monster. Jack and Ralph inform the others of the incident at a group gathering. Jack claims Ralph is a coward and ought to be dismissed, but the other guys are unwilling to do so. Jack yells for the hunters to follow him as he steps off along the beach. The remaining boys are inspired by Ralph to construct a fresh signal fire, this time on the beach rather than a mountain. They followed, but before completing the task, the majority of them went away. Jack establishes himself as the new hunting tribe's chief, and to mark the event, he plans a hunt and the bloody, ritual slaughter of a pig. 

The hunters then chop up the pig and present its head as a sacrifice to the beast by mounting it on a sharpened sow in the jungle. Simon later encounters the bloody fly-covered head and experiences a terrifying vision in which he believes the head is communicating. When Simon passed out, he woke up, walked to the mountain, and discovered that the object was actually a parachutist and every child had a monster inside of him. When he returned, other people mistook him for a monster and killed him.  When Raph and Piggy realize their mistake Jack attacks them and in the dispute, Piggy falls from the mountain and dies while Raph is saved and Ship officers find the raging fire.

Allegory in Lord of the Flies

One literary method you could employ to explain your ideas is an allegory. It enables you to knit together themes to build a story with several interpretations. In William Golding's novel allegory is used. Golding's use of setting, plot, and characters in this novel is much more than it appears; they all work together to deliver a certain message. We'll look at two generally accepted allegorical readings of Lord of the Flies: the story as a religious allegory and the story as a political allegory. As we will see, Golding is attempting to teach us all about human nature while also issuing a dreadful warning. The Novel is an allegory about life during the latter part of the twentieth century, the nuclear age, when civilization appears to have gained scientific development but human morality is still in its infancy.

The novel is written in the style of a religious allegory, particularly from the character Simon. Except for Simon, none of the characters serve entirely as allegory. Beelzebub is referred to as "Lord of the Flies." In heaven Adam and Eva were enjoying their lives fully but the devil put them on the road of astray. Likewise in Lord of the Flies when Jack, the figurative snake, tempts other boys with meat and turns them against Ralph, heaven becomes hell. Simon, on the other hand, is the savior. Simon represents faith. When the shell found by Ralph and Piggy is destroyed near the end of the story, we feel the pain that comes with the loss of anything of extraordinary beauty. It is also an allegory of bio-political society. Ralph and Jack, represent the two sides of society. The one led by Ralph represents an established part of society in which individuals follow rules and maintain peace.

The second section depicts the darker side of the same civilization, where thoughts of disobedience and wickedness take place. The glasses that Piggy wears in Lord of the Flies are, in reality, a pair of glasses designed largely for gazing through. Looking equals vision. Piggy understands things that the other guys do not, such as how to utilize the shell and the importance of laws and order.  He becomes upset and sad when other boys take his spectacles because he can't see anything without them.

His death serves as a painful reminder of society's harsh and cruel treatment of so many great men.

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