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The
ABCsof Lord of the Flies
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Is for
Allegory. An allegory is where the
places, people and events are symbolic. Lord of the Flies is an allegory of the Garden of Eden.
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Is for
BEELZEBUB.
BEELZEBUB is the devil; he is the
BEAST in mankind.
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Is for the
CONCH.
The conch is a symbol for
democracy. When it is crushed so
is all order in their society.
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Is for the
DECAY.
Lord of the Flies shows the decay
of civilization. The flies are drawn
to the rotting awayof man’s humanity.
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Is for the EVIL.The boys are responsible
for bringing evil to this perfect island.
As Simon pointed out, maybe the evil is within
ourselves.
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Is for the FIRE.Fire was their hope
of rescue and ironically fire did save them in the end—or did it?
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Is for Piggy’s
GLASSES. These glasses
represented intelligence.
They are at first broken and then stolen
by Jack.
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Is for the
HUTS.
Ralph,Simon, Piggy and the Littluns try
to create a civilization. As Jack takes over, the
boys leave their huts on the beach and move into caves.
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Is for
ISOLATION. The boys crash on
an island that is perfect but isolated from
society. Now without the constraints
of civilization, the boys reveal their darker
side.
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Is for JACK.
Jack is the
head of the chorusand in competition
with Ralph for leadership.
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Is for the
KNIFE.
Jack is the only one on the island who has a knife. This knife symbolizes
Jack’s violent nature.
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Is for their
LOSS of innocence.
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence,
the darkness of man’s heart...”
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Is for MAN. The novel explores
man’s inhumanity
to man. The boys are a MICROCOSM
of the evil within the larger world.
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Is for the
NASTYpeople that the boyshave become.
Golding believed that the defects of society could be traced back
to the defects of human nature.
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Is for
ORIGINAL Sin.
Using the allegory of the Garden of Eden, “original
sin” is the defect that Golding believed mankind
carried within itself.
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Is for the
Parachutist.He represented the message
or sign from adult world.
The message was one of death and reflected the evil that the boys feared.
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Is for
QUAINTManners.
Piggy tries to keep hisworld from losing itsrules and traditions.
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Is for RALPH
and ROGER.They are two sides of the
same coin.
They represent two of the many sides of man.
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Is for the
SAVAGENESSthe overtakes all the boys.
The caves, the face paint, the hunting, and
the sacrifice all are symbols of how savage the boys are becoming.
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Is for
TOLERANCE.Golding’s book is not one of
despair. He hopes mankind will heed his
message and save itself from destruction.
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Is for UNITY. The darker side
of man breaks down the boys unity as they spend more time on the island.
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Is for
VICTORY.The hunters are
victorious over Ralph, Simon and Piggy. Ralph’s leadership
is broken.
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Is for the WEAK who
were destroyed. All of those killed on the
island were marked with a defect, for
example, the boy with the mulberry birthmark, Simon’s fainting spells
and Piggy’s asthma and myopia.
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Is for the
eXTRAORDINARY circumstances that the boys faced.
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“Y is man like this
is?”
This is what Goldingwants us to ask
ourselves when wefinish reading
the novel.
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Is for the ZEN-like
behavior of Simon.
Simon can see and feel what others cannot. He even sees his own death.
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The End of the Lord of the Flies
ABCs
The End