In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies uses many items such as fire, Piggy’s glasses, and the conch to symbolize moral destruction of the boys. His argument that this book explains how today society is; and how they will act if they were stranded on an island. How these things are important to everyday living. Plus we take those simple things for granted. First, what the fire symbolizes is sanity.
I think that William’s Golding’s Lord of The Flies suggests that man are inherently evil such as Jack because of factors such as ignorance, but also there are people who are inherently good because of their natural love for people, and calm inner-beings, for example Simon. The ignorance in people is a great source of revealing one’s inherent evil because when someone shows ignorance, he is often associated with an evil characteristic. We see this firstly, during the event when the fire goes out and Ralph gets mad at Jack for letting the fire go out, which serves a purpose of a signal fire for ships passing by. At that time Jack is hunting and looking to spill some animal’s blood when he is supposed to be doing his assigned duty. As see on Page 82: “You didn’t ought to have let that fire out.
William Golding’s Lord of The Flies depicts a world of violence accompanied by a gradual degeneration of the boys into savagery. From the innocent schoolboys who landed on the island, the boys undergo a transformation that resulted from their isolation from civilization. During their meeting, the boys decided to use the beach along the rocks as a lavoratory. However, the littluns started to defecate everywhere, even near the fruit trees from which they eat. This shows that they are regressing into savagery.
When is loses its power, chaos occurs. For example when Jack states, “And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island−” (Golding, 166). They have an argument and begin a chant. Jack leads the chant and Simon crawls out of the forest to be brutally murdered by the boys. This shows that when a once huge symbolism of power loses its significance, mayhem takes place.
Piggy is sort of Ralph’s assistant because he sticks around Ralph and doesn’t really do anything. Piggy is also made fun of a lot because he has asthma and the others snatch his glasses right from him to start a fire. The twins, Sam and Eric or Samneric, have a less important role in the group. They help out with Ralph and Piggy. Theme is the lesson being taught in the story and it is always showing up in this book.
In The lord of the Flies the conch started out representing order then it symbolized authority but in the end stood for chaos. The conch changes throughout t the novel because the real meaning is blurred and there priorities are not straight. The boys had good intension with the conch and it helped but in the end it was destroyed. They needed the conch because without it they would have never come together and had
This has brought them to the point where they began to seperate because of their disagreements. As the conch become less valuable, they began to act less civilized. They began to act less civilized by not listening to one another and not following the rules that was established when the boys first arrived on the island. Golding reveals the importance of the conch and why is it needed. He shows this by showing how the boys become out of hand and dont listen to one another.
a Ta 1 Vui Ta WR 201 William Lemon 08/02/2012 David Sedaris’ Life in A Plague of Tic When you see the people who act panicky actions, what do you think about? In A Plague of Tics, taken from Naked, Sedaris breaks down the eccentricity such as licking things, tapping his shoes over his forehead, and rocking. Through the essay, he describes his suffering of his obsessive-compulsive disease that makes him an outcast from elementary into college. Moreover, he not only allows the audiences to take a look at his personal life but also leads the readers to relate his struggles. By struggling with his tics, Sedaris discovers a way to control his outlandish behaviors that make him normal in society’s eyes.
The symbols that Golding puts out there in Lord of the flies reflects on how the boys changed on the island. The conch, fire, and piggy’s glasses are the symbols that have changed the kids through out the story. In the book the boys use the conch as a sign of civilization and authority, one of
William Golding truly imbraces the theme of the loss of innocence in The Lord of the Flies. He uses Jack, the jungle, the death of Simon and weapons to fully describe and enhance the theme. In the end, Golding manipulated these four symbols to complete and help tell the story of young English boys that allowed time and paranoia to take away their