Evil Lord Of The Flies Analysis

Nothing Will Evade Evil As Hitler once said, “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” depicts a group of boys’ attitudes who crash landed on an island in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. They start out restrained by all the training civilization has given them, but soon begin to fight it. Most of the boys lie to themselves continuously to convince them they are not going savage even though it is evident they are. By using symbols, Golding is able to portray the destruction of everything because of evil.
Golding uses Jack, a once innocent choirboy who is morphing into a sadistic leader, to portray the crumbling of society due to the devilish mindsets of the boys. Jack is starting to rebel against Ralph by confidently stating, “Bullocks so to the rules!” and then proceeding to tie everything back to his obsession with hunting “We're

The “exposure to the air had bleached the yellow and pink” that the conch started off with “to near-white, and transparency” by being unprotected and in the hands of the boys (78). As the conch is transforming, the boys and island are too. They are infesting everything with their demonic ideas and actions, washing the purity away. Society is crumbling due to the boys ignoring all rules and instead, doing what they want. When “the conch exploded,” it broke “into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” depicting the end of all society (181). The conch symbolizes an organized society like how the boys started off. But as time progresses, it is easily seen how the shell is weakening and breaking down, just as their rule and order of civilization is. When the conch finally breaks, the boys have become completely savage as all hope is lost. Their inner darkness is the evil that is corroding everything from the inside