Lord Of The Flies Essay
Lord Of The Flies Essay�LORD OF THE FLYS� ESSAY
The book, Lord of the Flys, can be interpreted in many different ways.
Depending on the point of view of the reader, William Golding has opinions on man and
society. Golding is inaccurate for making the assumption that all people are born with
evil within them and are not affected by their surroundings.
In the book, the author uses a being called �the beast� to simulate the fear and evil
people have inside. The boys on the island apparently see a beast in the forest, which
scares them and gives them nightmares. Phil says at a meeting, �Last night I had a
dream, a horrid dream, fighting with things. I was outside the shelter by myself, fighting
with things, those twisty things in the trees.� Phil had heard things about he beast from
other boys, which caused him to have the nightmare. He is a young boy, on an island
with no supervision and is afraid of what�s is happening to him and where he is.
Without thoughts of the beast, provoked from the other boys, Phil would never have
experienced this nightmare. Not only the thoughts that the boys think affect them, but the
things they see cause them to have evil intentions.
Golding used a pig�s head on a stick called � the lord of the flys � as another
animation to substitute the thoughts of evil and fear within the boys. Seeing the head
causes Simon to have hallucinations of this head talking to him. The Lord of the Flys
says �
.� After hearing this, Simon returns to the
other boys, who are rallying around a fire, indulged in a victorious chant, and is soon
trampled to death by the preoccupied boys. Being away from civilization has driven the
boys to near delirium and as any person does, they easily got wrapped up in their success.
These kids are too young and inexperienced to be alone in the world without any kind of
civilization to keep them from losing sanity.
In the book Lord of the Flys, William Golding is false in making the conjecture
that every person is born with an evil within them. Each person on Earth is born with
entirely different thought, feelings, opinions and emotions as the next. Each one of the
boys on the island affected by every other boy in different ways, which explains every
action that every boy made.