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Allegories In Lord Of The Flies

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Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, after 21 rejections, was originally published on September 17, 1954. Winning countless awards for this novel like The Nobel Prize for Literature, the book also remains the most popular he has ever written. Golding witnessed multiple tragedies in his life while serving in the British Navy during World War 2, he allows the reader to feel some of the contradicting emotions he experienced throughout the novel. The novel is known for its extensive use of allegories, it is sometimes said that the entire novel itself is an allegory. The authors writing expresses a theme of religion comparisons to the beliefs and official writing of Christianity, he gives clues of the theme through character similarities, …show more content…

He compares the monstrous creature to the monster inside everyone “What I mean is… maybe it’s only us” (89). Although what the young boy is trying to stress to his peers is completely true, they do not believe him in the slightest and mock him, believing he was crazy and reassuring one another that the ideas are irrational , as those living in the time of Christ did to him. Another comparison of characters is Jack and Satan, both the antagonists of their stories. Jack represents evil and violence, the dark-side of human nature. Satan, also represents evil and temptation. Satan -who's true name is Lucifer- doesn’t fall under the category of human he is a wonderful yet ironic example of how something as holy and pure as an angel can fall into a hell of sorts. Jack, although never an "angel" as he was more of a bully when he resided in his home town, will become much more cruel and brutal when he finds himself alone in the wilderness with a group of age relating …show more content…

Readers will notice that Ralph is fixated on reminding the boys to keep the fire going and not let the flames go out. The bible reads "And God said, the fire must be kept burning on; it must not go out." (Leviticus 16:4) In the story when the fire does extinguish, although the connection is not made clear, the boys also lose hope of being rescued from the island on which they are stranded and accept their lives as savages. Also, at the very end of the story when the boys are rescued the novel makes note that the island is engulfed in fire making it impossible to ignore the ties to the non-literal flames mentioned in The

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