Light And Dark Imagery In Lord Of The Flies

Throughout an individual’s life, they go through change. Everything around them can impact the way they grow up, physically and mentally. The environment that an individual is around can influence how he/she acts, either being good or bad. In the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, light and dark imagery demonstrate how the environment impacts an individual’s behavior and feelings.
During the book, Golding uses light and dark imagery to illustrate how the good and evil surrounds and impacts the island and characters to set the mood and to show the significance of how it changes their personalities. Light imagery is typically associated with hope, purity and goodness. Dark imagery is associated with chaos, evilness and fear. On the island, the light and dark imagery symbolizes the good and evil, which drastically impacts the boys. When the boys first arrived on the island, they think the island is a paradise, since there were no parents or rules. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, talked as “spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies” (Golding 15). This created a feeling of warmth and safety for them, as they stood in the sand, thinking they were in ‘heaven’. As time goes on,

He represents light because he creates a sense of stability for the littluns. He makes a civilization with shelters, food and warmth. Ralph gives the boys hope because of his leadership and determination to get off the island. As darkness is around for Jack, it’s the opposite for Ralph, wherever he is there’s some light. He “lifted the cream and pink shell to his knees and a sudden breeze scattered light over the platform” (Golding 33). This shows the importance of his leadership, that he is he center of attention because he has the conch. Ralph is associated with light because he shows there was hope getting off the island and that impacted his behavior, he kept his rules and