William Goulding's Lord Of The Flies Essay

Lord of the Flies, written by William Goulding is about a group of english schoolboys who are stranded on an island after their plane was shot down and crashed during a vague point during the war. There is no adults, which for them means freedom. They celebrate a little too often for not always the best things. But as terror rises, everyone is put on edge. They attempt to make laws for people to go by; jobs for people to do, but that soon all goes downhill when a rebellion type war starts among them. Jack Merridew goes against all and starts up his own little ‘tribe’ type thing and recruits the bigguns (the bigger kids). From there on, he steals things, he hurts people, he goes against all of Ralphs original rules, which causes an uproar between the two groups. He writes from a juvenile adventure genre that goes into a

Lord of the flies can be translated to Hebrew, Ba’alzevuv ( Beezlebub in Greek). Some think that it is a mistranslation of a mistransliterated word that gave off the tart word for the Devil. This, can mean a lot of things. Like it say’s in the book, “...a devil whose name suggests that he is devoted to decay, destruction, demoralization, hysteria, and panic…” (page 205). That sentence can fit in with any part of the story, because of their recklessness. They lose their inner self and just become salvages, totally unphased by the beasts that are inside of them. Of course the author, William Goulding, would not say nor mention the Devil or the word, devil but he surely implies it with all of the boys’ behavior. Lord of the Flies could just be saying without saying, ‘devil’ because of their demonic acts. The book represents our society and how mischievous people are or can be. It’s quite sad to think about how that’s how the people around us are. It really doesn’t matter how nice and sincere people may be, they will all lose their true self and go a bit crazy if pressured up to