Deterioration In Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel written by William Golding, in which he set the scene of a deserted island and a group of English schoolboys as the framework. Golding explains many themes throughout this book, but the theme I will be arguing is that the personas of the boys are all an illustration of people of the bible, and their placement between Heaven, Hell, and Earth. The boy’s are in tribes. The separations of the boys tribes are much like the separation of angels and fallen angels. When the boys first arrived at the island they are seemly good children. The boys have their small flaws and sins when they first arrive at a beautiful peaceful, seemingly untouched place resembling the Garden of Eden. One by one these angels seem

Ralph’s first act on the island is to remove his clothes and to bathe in the water, this portrays the beginning of Genesis. A gesture that recalls of the innocence of Ralph as a twelve year old boy as well as Adam and Eve. He [Ralph] jumped down from the terrace. The sand was thick over his black shoes and the heat hit him. He became conscious of the weight of clothes, kicked his shoes off fiercely and ripped off each stocking with its elastic garter in a single movement. Then he leapt back on the terrace, pulled off his shirt, and stood there among the skull-like coconuts with green shadows from the palms and forest sliding over his skin. He undid the snake-clasp of his belt, lugged off his shorts and pants, and stood there naked, looking at the dazzling beach and the water. This is much like the Christian rite of baptism in which,by some accounts, is renewed in a state of grace. The jump Ralph takes in the beginning of this chapter illustrates a jump out of the world he once knew, and into a new reality, he must adjust to. The heat represented the old reality for this young boy whose world had been changed in a huge way, much like the world of Adam and Eve upon the newly created world as the first human beings. The clothing Ralph wears soon becomes a weigh in which Ralph cannot understand since it is just thrown on top of him. His clothing being a remembrance of the person he once knew, the person he once was. Ralph

We read in the first chapter that the boys plane fell from the sky to the island. We see that the longer these boys are on the island it becomes their own personal hell, some sooner than later, but always a hell. Jack takes and remarkably long time to realize his own hell. It’s hard to even see Jack move from this is life to this was not my life. He been a hunter since the beginning. Rescue? Yes, of course! All the same, I'd like to catch a pig first-" He snatched up his spear and dashed it into the ground. The opaque, mad look came into his eyes again(53). Jack cares so little for returning home, Jack only has a huge blood lust. Jack main goal throughout the beginning of this book is to hurt an innocent creature, on the island. Jack has now only put in effort in this. Jack doesn’t care about the safety of the other boys or himself, all he cares about is their need for meat, even though there is a abundant amount of fruit on the island. The way Jack snatches up his spear shows a that he was distracted by his own selfishness. Jack believed he was the best person on the island, far better than anyone else because he could provide things in which he thought were necessities for the island. Much like Lucifer who thought he was of greater power of all, Even him wanted to catch a pig represents the forbidding of a higher power the bible says not to eat split