William Golding Lord Of The Flies Allegorical Essay

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an allegorical novel since it contains a multitude of symbols exemplifying the stories allegorical and literal meanings. Lord of the flies takes place on an uninhabited island where a group of british school boys get stranded after their plane crashed. The island is a tropical paradise thriving with vegetation although there is more than what lies at the surface. The boys undergo extreme complications and fight for their lives against the the other boys and the great unknown(The Beast). The allegorical level reveals the large philosophic concepts within literature. In this case it reveals the stories savageness and capacity for evil. The literal level is what grabs our attention by using the characters and their internal/external conflict. The entire story deliberately expresses symbolism. By doing this the Island and children's behaviors allegorical representations become extremely evident. This story's double meaning plays a key role in the

The conches allegorical symbol is social order, respect, and power. It's used to call assemblies and is used as a kind of microphone that grants whomever is speaking the right to speak amongst the group. When the conch is discovered, it is simply just a white shell although it gives power to the beholder and becomes appealing to jack(another character striving to peculate Ralph's authority) . When Ralph and piggy realize how loud it is once blown into, it attained its first symbolic significance."We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us—" (Lord of the Flies, William Golding, Chapter 1, Page 14). It's used to summon the boy’s and represents human ingenuity. It has the ability to to create order out of chaos. It's significant that some of the less mature children are drawn by the sound of the conch and the formality of the