Biblical Allusions In Lord Of The Flies

In William Golding’s novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ a group of boys crash land on an island where they regress from well-mannered, well-behaved children aching for rescue to cruel and bloodthirsty hunters who have no desire to return to civilization. In chapter eight of the novel, Golding had represented the inner darkness and evil that is in everyone’s heart by using a sow’s bloody head which was painfully apportioned from its body by Jack and his hunters. Simon had been watching the boys mercilessly slit the sow’s throat and later decides to call it the “Lord of the Flies” since there were “flies swarming around the pig’s head giving the illusion of movement, making the head seem alive” [1]. Ironically, “Lord of the Flies” biblical meaning is