Lord Of The Flies Literary Analysis

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel, where a group of young British boys are lost on an island after their plane crash lands. Throughout the novel William Golding utilization of literary devices are in place to reveal a theme of the novel, civilization and innocent are destroyed due to the savagery of the boys', desire for power, and fear of the unknown. William Golding utilizes three important literary devices throughout the novel, symbolism, of when the conch is destroyed civilization on the island is gone, foreshadowing the deaths of the boys on the island and irony as the civilize British boys turn savages.

Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies, symbolism is the most important literary device used by William Golding, to reveal the central theme of the novel. The hunters
An irony in the novel Lord of the Flies is that the British boys on the island are suppose to represent civilization. “We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.”(William Pg 42) Beginning of the novel the British boys on the island are civilize. This is ironic as Jack and his tribe on the islands turn into savages and civilization is destroyed. Another example of irony is between Ralph and Jack. "Grownups know things. They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right."(Pg) Ralph replies "If they could only get a message to us. If only they could send us something grownup."(Pg) This is ironic because in the novel, there is a grownup but unfortunately it is a dead parachutist pilot from the war. The grownup does not help make things better yet he makes it worse. Simon’s death was taken due to the factor of fear inside of the boys. As they thought Simon is the beast coming for them in the