How is allegory used in lord of the flies

None of the characters other than Simon functions solely as a part of allegory. The island, beautiful and abundant of tasty food recalls the Garden of Eden in which Adam and Eve once lived happily.

When Jack the metaphorical serpent tempts other boys showing meat and turns them against Ralph, the heaven turns to a hell. However redeemer comes in the form of Simon. Simon symbolises the faith. He has a fresh, delightful response to the mystery of Nature, with its weird beauty and fantastic variety. The conch, which Ralph and Piggy discover in the lagoon and use to call the children to assemblies, is not just a symbol of order. From the beginning Golding does justice to the strange attraction of the shell, with its delicate, embossed pattern, and deep harsh note which echoes back from the pink granite of the mountain.

When towards the end of the story the conch is smashed, we feel that sadness which comes when any object of exquisite beauty is broken. The symbolic meaning, that this is the end of the beauty of justice and order, is not forced upon us, but is reflected through our emotional reaction to the object itself.

The incident is part of an exciting story, a surprising climax to the murder of Simon; at the same time the dead parachutist is the beast to the children, a symbol of adult evil, which, by their own act of killing, they have shown to be part of themselves.

The boys in the mock-hunt mistake him for a beast and kill him in the midst of frantic dance. Christ, the redeemer of mankind too was crucified for preaching the gospel truth. Thus evil walks out with crown by killing reason, intelligence and virtue.

Golding ridicules the civilization of which mankind is proud. And it just keeps growing. Here's a small sampling of what Clothing is another relic of the old world that falls by the wayside in this new one.

Clothes can be ominous, as when Jack and his choir boys appear to be one long, dark creature as they travel in The Lord of the Flies could be read as one big allegorical story. An allegory is a story with a symbolic level of meaning, where the characters and setting represent, well, other things, like polit The beast is easy enough: it represents evil and darkness. But does it represent internal darkness, the evil in all of our hearts, even golden boys like Ralph?

Each character in the novel represents something more than his soul. They symbolize certain ideas. Ralph and Jack explain both aspects of society. Ralph is an institutional part of a society where people obey rules and maintain harmony. Jack shows the dark side of the same society. Piggy presents the scientific and intellectual aspects of civilization. Roger presents the drive for violence and bloodshed in its purest.

Rogers arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. The objects of the island also serve as metaphorical verbs.

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