Lord Of The Flies Allegory

There are many characters, settings, objects and events that represent the theme and ideas to the novel. When the main characters are in state of nature, they’re symbolic to the flaws of humanity. In William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies” he explores the conflict of humans toward civilization and toward savagery. Savagery rises and civilization falls as the entire spectrum of the dark side occupies the existence of society, when allegory is profound in different aspects throughout the novel. There are many types of allegory in Lord of the Flies. The novel is interpreted as a social, historical and religious allegory. When the boys knew the difference of what’s right and wrong, they were able to take action immediately to prevent

As I connect through what I’ve learned in class that the novel had resemblance to Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden can be compared as the island in Lord of the Flies when at first no mankind existed. Before the existence of mankind on the island, it’s able to provide the best living standard along with the access to food, water and other resources. In Golding’s perspective “Eden” is portrayed as evil foreshadowing the island as it ends up in the state of misery, changing from heaven to hell. Piggy in this situation is the saviour of society and an intellectual character as Jack’s failure to understand Piggy resulted in Piggy’s death. Before Piggy’s death he had concerns that, “Just an ordinary fire. You’d think we could do that, wouldn’t you? Just a smoke signal so we can be rescued. Are we savages or what?”(Page20). This quote analyzes Piggy’s concern of savagery taking over the island. Piggy’s death is the symbol to the downfall of mankind and the conch shell was blown away. Jack’s rise in ambition was the reason to becoming a corrupted person as he never thinks beyond himself. The power gained by Jack has been a negative effect on society. On a long run corruption rules like a dictator, if it isn’t prevented. Simon’s faith on humanity allows him to explore nature and made him that in the process of savagery, the beast is within all of their bodies. Therefore Simons’ involvement in the novel shows its