Lord Of The Flies Comparative Essay

While the two mediums used to tell the story of Lost’s two pilot episodes and Lord of the Flies by William Golding are different, there are lots of similarities that can be drawn from the two stories. The obvious one is that both stories take place on an island, but when the stories are analyzed deeper readers can see that both tales have a lot of dynamics between the characters that are similar. Firstly, both stories take place with a cast of characters that clash landed on an island. In Lord of the Flies, a group of five to around twelve year olds crash landed on an unknown island. In Lost, a group of adults also crash landed onto an unrecognizable island, and are trying to survive. In the current point of the story, the kids don’t

In Lord of the Flies, Ralph quickly takes place as the group’s leader, as well as Jack in Lost. In Lost, Jack is set as leader because of his doctorly instincts taking and showing everyone his intelligence. This concept is also found in Lord of the Flies when Ralph shepherds the children when he sounds the conch shell. Similarly, both stories have a relatively large and cruelly named side kick. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph adopts “Piggy” as his friend. In Lost, Jack adopts “Hugo” as his friend. Both characters had a real name in the beginning, but characters in both stories renamed them due to their size. In addition, both storylines have an opposing, violent character. In Lost, James, a former prisoner, shows the characters his violence when he shoots the polar bear. He then shows his disobedience and violence there after. In Lord of the Flies, Jack is very eager to kill pigs, and doesn’t agree with Ralph’s decision to delay the hunt to focus on shelter. Overall, both stories have very similar character dynamics.

To conclude, Lost and Lord of the Flies both have a very similar setting, and character relationships. Both stories have the backbone and starting point of characters abandoned on an island. However, the similarities go deeper into human instinct and delve into human relationships. This can be little things like characters nicknamed similarly, or entire concepts of violence and disobedience. To