What Are The Similarities Between Lord Of The Flies And Mean Girls

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Tina Fey’s Mean Girls, both authors reveal similar symbolism and settings that can relate to reality and todays society. Golding and Fey show symbolism through the lack of clothing and how it can guide another being to make assumptions of another’s personality. They unravel setting through the world of teenagers and children that create trouble amongst the places they inhabit and their surrounding areas alongside explaining how it can heavily impact the direction in which society travels. So, this exposes how clothing tells about another’s personality and how a world with teenagers and children governing themselves can lead to a corrupt and destructive society.
Golding’s symbolism of the lack of

clothing reveals the inner character of a ravishing beast driven by evil. Clothes give an overview about your personality, like a teenage girl that wears booty shorts with ripped shirts that are sleeveless give an opinion of the girl being spoiled or the parents doing a bad job of keeping her disciplined. By picturing this girl, not only do you assume her being a spoiled brat, yet you also may imagine her being quite popular for the reason she sticks out in society, with clothes no one else dares to wear. Jack and his followers end up ripping off their clothes and apply paint to their faces, causing them to feel like imperishable hunters who fear none. (Quote). (Support). By acting in such manner, the savages know that their true inner-self becomes revealed to the public eye. (Quote). (Support). Once the children unravel their true savagery, they come to understand that the reason being comes through the lack of civilization (clothes), and the rules that have been set in place. In the end, Golding’s symbolism reveals that the lack of clothes unravels the savagery and the hunger of the beast that lives within the children that builds up as time goes by.
In comparison, Tina’s symbolism reveals how the lack of clothing reveals the inner self of immaturity, dirtiness, and corruption. As Cady becomes more of an icon in high school with the high societal plastics, she begins to expose more and more of her body, which shows she really wants to become just like the plastics. (Quote). (Support). As Cady becomes more like the plastics physically, she as well does so mentally, like pondering upon which clothes seem fit to wear and which not. (Quote). (Support). In the end, Tina’s symbolism reveals how clothes really change people by exposing them to the true world of bad influence, which at times seems very bad and can scar bad luck on your life forever.
In addition, Golding’s setting unravels that a world without adults equals chaos and dilemma.

Adults bring order and a civilized society and respect and many more things a child needs to learn before they live all by themselves in a world of independence. They teach their children because they desire to prepare them for the real world. As the boys scatter, they eventually begin to fight and kill some of their “friends.” In the process of killing and hunting down other kids, the children begin to set fire to the island in hope that the children being hunted will run like an injured dog out to the open sand near the ocean. (Quote). (Support). However, there were attempts from the former chief to restore order to the savaged society but failure was the result every time. (Quote). (Support). In the end, Golding’s setting reveals how leaving children all on their own independently can cause chaos and destruction and lead to children taking others lives and most of all, their

own.
Likewise, Tina’s setting reveals that a group of teenage girls and boys go wild, leaving scars on their bodies that are not curable without parents or other adults to guide them in the right direction. As a kid matures into a teenager, their brains get trashed with violence and desires by watching many things on TV and mainly, just the society around them. Many of the choices they make according to the society around them result in teenagers ruining their lives forever. Cady begins to expose more and more of her body, but most of all, learns from the plastics how to disrespect your parents. (Quote). (Support). However, there happens to be times when big fights evolve from small arguments, mainly between friends. (Quote). (Support). In the end, teenagers should not go around places freely without their parents or adults because they never know which path to choose reason being that they still have a developing mind.
In a world where teenagers deem themselves the highest and children think that they can do whatever their desire leads a world to a corrupt and destructive society.

Golding shows how children all on their own, can change their own brains to function the way they choose with no one telling them what to do. He as well explains the impact of less clothing has on society, which causes civilization to diminish from where they lay. Likewise, Cady changes the way she dresses from being fully covered with dignity and respect to exposing body parts and changing her way of thinking. However, in the end, both authors reveal symbolism and setting through teenagers and children. Parents should be most cautious about teenagers because they seem to be the main reason why society corrupts and destroys itself, which leads future generations at risk of becoming even

worse.