Symbolism In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

Symbolism in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies In William Golding’s book, Lord of the Flies, he uses innocent young boys from an all boys school, and is sending them on a plane to a safer place, since there was threats of bombs. They were in the time of WW2. He decides to make their plane crash in the middle of nowhere, on a stranded island with no adults.With that, he turns these boy into savages. They get very territorial, wanting food, and wanting to get home. From that cause, they get very destructive towards each other, island, and animals. They had to learn to get along and cooperate with each other. They really struggle without having adults to tell them what is right and what is wrong.“Man’s Destructive Nature” is shown through

These kids show “Man’s Destructive Nature” by, one day letting the fire get out of hand, then again letting the fire get out of hand while searching for Ralph when he ran off and went hiding in the woods. All of the kids (counting the Bigguns and the littluns) were on top of the mountain wanting to make the fire. What they didn’t know was that the area around them was dead and dry. When they lit it, the fire spread like a disease, burning anything and everything in sight: “Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees… Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through the leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing… The heart of the flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them. Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame” (Golding 44). They all show man’s destructive nature, since they are still a kid but they, didn’t look at their surroundings for any possible danger from or for the fire. All they did was put the stuff on the fire and didn’t watch it, until it got way out of hand. Just because of the fire there was a boy that went missing. At the end of the book, the kids show the same type of destruction, from burning the forest on

Piggy was scolding Jack for letting the fire go out while everyone was on the mountain wanting to start eating the meat. Jack was Being mean to Piggy, and pushed/ hit him and made his glasses fall off and shatter: “Piggy said: You didn’t ought to have let that fire out. You said you’d keep the smoke going-” Ralph made a step forward and jack smacked Piggy’s head. Piggy’s glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks. Piggy cried out in Terror: My Specs” (Golding 71 ). Jack was upset that Piggy was saying that it was his fault for the fire going out. That reason, Jack slaps Piggy and his Glasses flew off and shattered on a rock. Piggy in that manner ran over to them and was really upset. This represents Man’s destruction of nature in a different way of nature. The nature is Piggy’s glasses and the man’s destruction is Jack hitting piggles, and the glasses breaking. One afternoon, Jack and his hunters went hunting and found a sow. They were really happy with their find. so they killed it without even thinking that it had piglets. They were all around the pig around the middle of the Island. They cut off the sow head for the Beast and put it on a stick, and made it a gift, so they can try to get peace with it: “Sharpen a stick on both ends. presently he stood up, holding the dripping sow’s head in his hands. Where’s that stick? Here. Ram one end in the earth. Oh-it’s a rock. Jam it in