Lord Of The Flies Allegory

An example of an Allegory is the novel-The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. This story has many allegories about society, morality and religion. However,the island itself is an allegory for society. The main characters of the novel are Ralph and Jack though Simon, Piggy, Roger and the littluns are a key part in the unfolding of events.
The story is about preadoloscence boys who survive a Bitish aeroplane crash near an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacigic Ocean. Two boys named Ralph and Piggy find a conch which Ralph uses as a horn to assemble all the survivors together and because of this act, Ralph is elected their "chief". Ralph goes on to establish the primary policies: to have fun, to survive and to constantly maintain a smoke signal innhopes that a passing ship will see it and rescued them.

The boys also use Piggy's glasses to create the fire .
Order on the island quickly deteriorates as the majority of the boys turn idle and give little aid in building shelters. This makes them develop paranoias about the island claiming that there is a beast. Jack sees this as an opportunity to gain more followers and boldly promises to kill the creature. He calls all of his hunters who are maintaining the signal fire and they begin hunting down the beast.
A ship travels by the island but since there is no signal fire, it passes the island and this angers Ralph who confronts Jack about his failure to maintain the signal fire. As time goes by more misunderstandings, poor decisions and killings occur including the killing of Piggy by Roger and the killing of Simon by the frenzied boys who mistake him for the