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Lord Of The Flies Conch Analysis

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Throughout the book Lord of the flies, there are symbols in the book that either shows how the kids are coming together or how they fall deeper and deeper into savagery. The symbols include: the conch, the beast, and the hunters body/face paint. The conch is referred to as a source of power to Ralph, it is shown to be what holds the kids together-ish until it is eventually broken, and a temporary power to those that wished to speak and give ideas about how to improve their life on the island. The conch brings all of the scattered kids together so they can establish rules, take down how many there are of them, and a village. The main reason Ralph became chief is because of the conch, so while he’s the chief he creates “the rule of the conch” amongst themselves, however, most of the kids (especially Jack), go against the idea of not being able to talk while someone has …show more content…

After seeing all of this they think that they have proof of the beast’s existence, which does exist just not in the way that they think it did. I’m sure that Golding wanted to show that in this novel all of the kids have a darker side, for instance, all of the boys thought that the beast was the worst type of animal(s) imaginable, or a supernatural entity that inhabited the island, it’s waters, or the sky above it, you can’t defeat a “nothing”, but you can kill a “something”. When Simon hallucinates that the pigs head is talking to him he even says that the darkness is in him and all the others. The Lord of the Flies confirms that “You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?”(130). Meanwhile piggy tries to explain that all of their fear is just the fear of the unknown. “I know that there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear

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