Allegory In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

The novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding was published in 1954. The publisher to this novel was Faber and Faber. This classic was created in Salisbury, England in the 1950’s and was written as an allegory that portrays a loss of innocence through an adventure story. Within the book, a group of kids get stranded on an island and have to fend for themselves without adult supervision. They struggle to keep civilized and start to lose their innocence through events that occur in the novel.
In the middle of a war, a plane had been shot down and crashed on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean. Within the plane were a group of boys. These boys were stranded on an tropical island with no adults since the airplane driver had died. The story is being told in a third person view by an unknown person and is going back and forth through main characters point of views focusing maining on Ralph. The protagonist of the story is Ralph, a twelve year old boy who focuses on leading the group to a more civilized attitude. The complete opposite would be Jack, he is the antagonist of the story. Jack was furious when people voted for Ralph to be
Simon soon figures out that the so called beast is merely a dead corpse of a man with a parachute. He then comes across “the Lord of the Flies”, which is the offering gave by Jack's group to the beast, and believes that he hears it speaking to him through the forest. He is told that the beast isn’t a real monster but it is held within them all. It also told him that it would have “fun” with Simon, this is a foreshadow of Simon's death. Simon then ran back as fast as he could to Jack's group to tell them what just happened in the forest and to tell them that there is no beast. As he was arriving at their camp, the boys ran toward him with weapons and saw him as the beast and not as Simon. Simon was then brutally murdered by Jack's group mistaking him for the