Ralph Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

“Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control” (New International Version, Cor. 7.5). This quote shows you need more than one person to stop the temptation of the devil or the Lord of the Flies. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding the only boy still leaning toward being civil is Ralph. He shows how all of the other boys have fallen under the influence of the Lord of the Flies. The Lord of the Flies can be interpreted as a religious, specifically biblical, allegory. More specifically, the Lord of the Flies represents the devil and, by extension, the evil that resides in

In the book, the biblical theme of good and evil is implied, but are the same. For example, the story of Eden. The early chapters of the book, the island itself symbolizes the Garden of Eden from Genesis, with its great and happy scenery, unlimited fruit, and amazing weather. The boys are symbolical to Adam and Eve before the fall of them into sin. Ralph's first act after the plane crash is to take of his clothes and take a bath in the water, a act you see in the bible with the nudity of the innocent Adam and Eve and the act of baptism. Naming the animals (or people) is an important in Genesis, shown in the novel as the boys give their names. Golding goes on with the narrative of Eden when he portrays the island life as being corrupted by fear, this happens when the boys refer to as “A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it.” (Golding 48). The "snake-thing" is Satan in the Garden of Eden, who was disguised as a serpent. But not like Adam and Eve, the boys are confused about the beast, which is not an actually thing (like Satan) but a part of their imaginations of the evil that is within themselves and the human mind. Still, it is the boys' failure to see the danger of the evil within themselves that sends them into a place of savagery and violence. They still continue to see this evil as a beast, but they become more and more savage in their views of it, and they end up making different ideas

Like in the text Ralph strikes the Lord of the Flies (the pig head) After being wounded by Jack, Ralph flees into the forest. Trying to understand Piggy's death and how the boys could murder him, he sees himself face to face with the skull that Jack had put on a stick in front of Simon. He quakes involuntarily at the sight of it, trying to figure out what it could be. Overwhelmed by "sick fear and rage," he strikes it, but it comes back at him. He hits it again, crying out "in loathing," and this time the skull breaks in two. His hands are bruised from hitting it. He takes out the stick from the ground to use as a spear. The two halves of the skull have been pushed about two yards apart from each other, and now it seems like its evil grin is six feet