Diction In Lord Of The Flies

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When thinking about the future, most of us don’t imagine that it will end in a vicious apocalypse in which we are reverted to our base state of savagery. However William Golding in his famous work Lord Of The Flies pictured this within his work thanks to the Cold War, yet even now this is still relevant to modern society. As if even now we are ushering in our own personal apocalypse.

Lord Of The Flies is a book set on a desert island after a nuclear disaster that leaves the Earth uninhabitable. A set of boys are the lone survivors and are stuck in the moral dilemma of whether or not to try to escape the island. In the end, savagery takes over and

On this deserted island, after the total nuclear devastation, what represents humanity struggling to survive and the boys still trying to act civilized, whether this is a current connection or even a Biblical/Metaphorical. One example of humanity cling to its dregs is Ralph as the character himself. Ralph is the one who first claims the conch and tries to set forth leadership. He tries to command everyone for the sake of survival and brings forth the idea of using the fire for smoke. He uses it to keep the group together despite their inevitable fall. Piggy’s specs themselves are an important symbol as is their owner. Piggy’s specs represent the usage of technology in order to further society and to help humanity. By creating fire, Ralph uses it as a signal to keep themselves all together as a group. It is also used in attempt to gather the group altogether. Piggy himself is a martyr-like figure, he is there to support Ralph but also to show what happens we stray from society. He is a martyr thanks to his death being for Ralph and under his leadership Simon is an important character thanks to his seemingly psychic predictions in which he uses for good. He tries to guide the others, almost like a guiding spirit that sees and hears what the others cannot. In one instance he states “You’ll get back to where you came from...All the same. You’ll get back all right. I think

We still commit great acts that make us seem more animal than we claim to be. Even today in which we claim to be better than any species, we are still predators and killers. We kill and slaughter animals that are defenceless and give no threat to us. But worst of all, just like the abandoned children on the island, we kill each other. I was born in a time after thousands died because a few men tried to achieve eternity. We have fought wars over land and for false idols like basic savages, just discovering the dark and beasts. As advanced as we are, we bear hatred towards different. We fear different. Just as the boys fear the dark and shadows. We declare people as different and persecute those we don't understand. We fear everything from the dark to ourselves, we act in fear, killing and murdering like scared prey. We run from the shadows to the light. We may try to deny these claims but at the same time, we fear information. Power that can crumble even the strongest of governments. Finally, just as the savages we claim not to be, we worship idols of pretend. Men conjured the idea of heroes and saviours to chase way that fear. Just as the boys worship The Beast, we worship a God or gods. We kill our fear of death by making places we will go. We give the idea of life going on. We worship the most false of our kind with Hollywood and look up to leaders. Just like animals crouching around the newly discovered fire,