Lord Of The Flies Figurative Language Essay
In Lord of the Flies, William Golding utilizes figurative language to compare the depiction the Jack’s jungle to that of Simon’s jungle to represent different approaches of humans to the natural world.
Jack’s jungle is depicted as dry and rough, where there is only undergrowth and a cracked twig, which displays how dehydrated and lifeless the bushes and soil seem to him. The sharpened stick in his hand demonstrates his focus on violence, and the animal desire to kill. He even acts much like the pigs he wishes to kill, by the way he flares his nostrils and how he is bent over on all fours. Jack’s piercing bright blue eyes show frustration which seems “bolting and nearly mad… [Jack passes] his tongue across his dry lips and [scans] the uncommunicative …show more content…
Jack’s confidence and hunter-like qualities shrink with the cry of the bird, and becomes more like the prey rather than the predator. However, his frustration and destructive determination consumes him once again. The lurid bird passes from his mind, and his surroundings are depleted of color; he sees a vast tree that “[grows] pale flowers on its grey bark”. Not only this, but there is even a “passing pallor in [Jack’s] face, and then the surge of blood again” (). The pallor in the flowers and Jack’s face again display the lack of life in him and the jungle, with the beauty drained from what were once magnificent flowers, and from what was once a boy but now a vicious creature. Conversely in Simon’s jungle, life in the forest is vociferous, contradictory to Jack’s silent and uncommunicative jungle. The jungle is dark, as is Jack’s jungle, however Simon’s “feet [leaves] prints in the soft soil and the creepers [shiver] throughout their lengths when [Simon bumps] them” (). Contrastly to Jack’s depiction of the same jungle, the soft soil opposes the bristly and dry ground Jack sees. Simon feels the soft soil, and this
Jack’s jungle is depicted as dry and rough, where there is only undergrowth and a cracked twig, which displays how dehydrated and lifeless the bushes and soil seem to him. The sharpened stick in his hand demonstrates his focus on violence, and the animal desire to kill. He even acts much like the pigs he wishes to kill, by the way he flares his nostrils and how he is bent over on all fours. Jack’s piercing bright blue eyes show frustration which seems “bolting and nearly mad… [Jack passes] his tongue across his dry lips and [scans] the uncommunicative …show more content…
Jack’s confidence and hunter-like qualities shrink with the cry of the bird, and becomes more like the prey rather than the predator. However, his frustration and destructive determination consumes him once again. The lurid bird passes from his mind, and his surroundings are depleted of color; he sees a vast tree that “[grows] pale flowers on its grey bark”. Not only this, but there is even a “passing pallor in [Jack’s] face, and then the surge of blood again” (). The pallor in the flowers and Jack’s face again display the lack of life in him and the jungle, with the beauty drained from what were once magnificent flowers, and from what was once a boy but now a vicious creature. Conversely in Simon’s jungle, life in the forest is vociferous, contradictory to Jack’s silent and uncommunicative jungle. The jungle is dark, as is Jack’s jungle, however Simon’s “feet [leaves] prints in the soft soil and the creepers [shiver] throughout their lengths when [Simon bumps] them” (). Contrastly to Jack’s depiction of the same jungle, the soft soil opposes the bristly and dry ground Jack sees. Simon feels the soft soil, and this