Literary Devices In Lord Of The Flies

Over the course of time, many great pieces of writing have used literary devices to emphasize their main message , and william golding’s Llord of the fFlies is no exception to this. GoldingThe author uses many different literary devices includingsuch as symbols such as the conch, Piggy’s glasses, and the beast as well as, foreshadowing the abuse and corruption of power which occurs later on in the story, and and to depict one of the major themes of the novel, power, which is portrayed as both negative and positive.

Golding is a master of symbolism, and thus so it is no surprise that the entire novel contains symbols symbolism throughout. It is also no surprise that the entire novel is filled with symbols that relate to the primary theme

As explained above, the glasses arewere knocked out of piggy’s head and hit the ground. This foreshadows Piggy’s own tragic death which occurs. “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee: the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, travelled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went… Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed.” (Golding 200). It is also noteworthy that both incidents happened in a similar matter. The glasses were knocked onto a rock, while Piggy was also knocked over by one, and both occurred as a result of by Jack’s physical dominance overallowing him to overpower Piggy.. This is not the only case of Golding’s well placed foreshadowing in Lord of the Flies, nor is it the only one referringreffering to Piggy’s death in the future. In Chapter 8, Piggy mentions that if Ralph was out of the way, Jack would hurt him. This is proven later on once Jack’s tribe overpowers Ralph’s., Ralph is put into a position in where he has little influence, and is “out of the way”. This encounter does infact result in Piggy being harmed by Jack’s tribe and ultimately killed. A final example of the foreshadowing of Piggy’s death foreshadowing to this gorey event is found present in chapter 6 when a members of the choir, specifically Roger, iswere seenfound rolling rocks down the mountain. This again foreshadows Piggy’s death by rolling boulder once Jack abuses his power to kill Piggy. All of theseis examples exemplifyies Goldings exceptional and well hidden use of foreshadowing within the novel relating to the main theme of