Essays on Lord of The Flies

The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding in 1954 tells a story of a group of boys stranded on a lifeless island and their attempt to govern themselves. During a war retreat, a airplane crashes leaving preadolescent children and littleuns as the only survivors. In the group of young boys, there are...

“There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.” In his novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses symbolism to demonstrate the innate potential for evil and savagery that all humans possess. Lord of the Flies is about a group of schoolboys who find themselves stranded on an island without adult supervision. Initially, the boys...

In Lord of the flies by William Golding, there are three main characters. Each main character represents something. There’s Ralph, Simon, and Jack. There’s Ralph, Simon, and Jack. Ralph represents civilization and democracy, Simon represents an incarnation of goodness and Jack represents savagery and dictatorship. There is a difference between the two characters, Jack and...

William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies reflects a relation to Maslow’s Hierarchy of desires. every character has their individual desires that are either met or denied and conjointly describes whether or not the novel meets its own needs. He then determined to make an organization that mirrored the universal desires of society as...

Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding that follows a moderately large group of boys as they make their attempt to survive a formerly deserted island while contending with dangers both natural and very human. While Golding never specifically states the book’s Abrahamic connections, it is not difficult for...

Eric Burdon once stated, ‘Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.’ In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies, a group of kids crash onto a desolate island. During their time on...

The lord of flies’ analytical essay The lord of flies is William Goldings most recognized piece of writing. The novel explores the “darkness” that comes with human nature through following the behavioural changes of a group of young schoolboys when found stuck on a tropical, uninhabited island after their plane is shot down. Like every...

Lord of the Flies was first published on the 17th of September 1954. The Lord of the Flies stands as a timeless read presenting many embedded views about broader humanity and society. The book holds strong social, moral and ethical messages about broader society mixed with implicit values, assumptions and beliefs of the society Golding...

How William Golding used Jack in “Lord of the Flies” as an object of fear and manipulation to take control on the island. Why would William Golding use Jack as that object of fear and manipulation? At the beginning of the story, we could identify how jack had a domineering personality and did not want...

William Golding once said, “We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.” This is explored in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. The novel begins after a plane transporting a group of school-aged boys crashes on an island leaving no adults. The boys start off civil and...