How Does Golding Use Language In Lord Of The Flies

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Composers use language to get responders emotionally involved. To make the characters be more than a “name on a page”. William Golding uses language effectively to capture the emotional, physical, and spiritual connection between the antagonist Jack and the responder in the narrative Lord Of The Flies. Throughout the novel the audience watches Jack’s personality and mindset change from private English schoolboy to savage like. This can be seen when Jack and the boys… “ The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk and the blade to continue to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.” Golding uses imagery to show the emotional innocence still left in Jack at the start of the narrative. This displays the private school boy mentality. Jack hesitates about the downward stroke as he has civility within him …show more content…

“Jack held up the head and jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick which pierced through into the mouth. He stood back and the head had a bit of blood dribbling down the stick” (…) “ Jack spoke loudly “ this head is for the beast, it’s a gift”. Golding uses symbolism to establish the allegory like spiritual theme in the novel towards Jack. Golding has purposefully directed Jack to put the pig’s heads on the stick and offer it to the beast as Jack represents evil. The pig’s head has its own biblical background, which is that the head represents Beelzebub, who is the devil. Golding has effectively manipulated this to create a scene where Jack who represents evil creates the devil, hell and evil on the island. Golding conveys the bond between the responder and Jack through the evil within

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