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The
sof 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 away of 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 (Garden of Eden). 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 chorus and in competition
with Ralph for leadership.
Jack slowly descends into
savagery.
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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 was the “beast” and 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 his
world from losing its rules and traditions.
Piggy and Ralph represent order and
civlization.
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Is for RALPHand ROGER.They are two sides of the
same coin. They represent two of the many sides of man.
Ralph is order. Roger is anarchy.
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Is for the
SAVAGENESSthat 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. Golding was touched by war and saw the Cold War as the
beginning of the end.
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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 and the evil of men wins.
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Is for the WEAK whowere 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 poor eyesight.
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Is for the
eXTRAORDINARY circumstances that the boys faced. Golding believes it is easy for man to be good when they are not tested.
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“ Y is man like this?”This is what Golding
wants us to ask ourselves when we
finish reading the novel. And, how do we avoid
our own destruction.
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Is for the ZEN-likebehavior of Simon.Simon can see and
feel what others cannot. He even sees his own death.
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The
BASICSof Lord of the Flies
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Who is Golding?William Golding was born on
September 19, 1911 in England. In 1940 Golding joined the Royal
Navy and participated in D-DayHis experience in WWII had a
profound effect on his view of humanity and the evils of which it was capable.
His first and greatest success came with Lord of the Flies (1954)
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What is the LotF?The Lord of the Flies is the
pig’s head in the book.The more the boys’
descend into evil and savagery – the more the head decays – the more it attracts flies.
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What is the BEAST?At first, it is seen as a real object
on the island which frightens the boys.
The parachutist is initially seen as a beast because the boys expect to see a physical form of it.
The pig’s head is meant to be a gift for the beast.
Actually, the beast is a metaphor for something internal to all men.
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What is the BEAST?The beast represents the way
in which man will try to convince himself that there is no evil inside of him by making someone or something else seem to be the cause for the evil.
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What is the BEAST?Simon discovers the parachutist is
dead but the beast is still alive.Simon has a break down and
interviews the Lord of the Flies.Simon tries to tell the others about
the beast and is killed because of it.Simon represents Christ in the
Garden of Eden, trying to warn man of its inner evil. While Jack and Ralph symbolize both Cain and Able.
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Important SymbolsThe Island = Garden of EdenParachutist = Adult SupervisionPig’s Head = Lord of the FliesBeast = Internal Evil of ManGlasses = Reason/LogicConch = Leadership/Speaking
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