What Does The Fire Symbolize In Lord Of The Flies
The Significance of the Fire in Lord of the Flies
Symbols are made to show a profound meaning of something to the world, whether it is a positive symbol or a diabolical symbol. The protagonist, Ralph, and another boy known as Piggy are stranded on a deserted island after surviving a plane crash. Ralph uses a conch shell to alert the other boys of where he is, and once gathered they decide to designate a leader. The second task Ralph declares, is the first time we see the fire, that they light a signal fire on the mountain. The boys without any other thought go to light the fire. Throughout, the rest of the novel the importance of the fire becomes more and more influential. The fire in Lord of the Flies by William Golding represents hope, destruction, and savagery found in society. …show more content…
In the beginning, the boys want to go home. They want to be returned to the adult world, and to eventually return home. They hope for someone to save them, and now the fire represents what that want. This hope will become their destruction. On page 169, after Jack's tribe steals Piggy's glasses from Ralph's group. The boys assumed that Jack's tribe would try to pilfer the conch, but the thing they take is the glasses that are used to light the fires. Ralph's group is no longer able to create a fire, and they don't have hope left. Ralph's group is stuck, they cannot construct a signal fire on the beach anymore, because the way they create the fire is with Piggy's glasses. There are few boys left in Ralph's group: him, Piggy, Samneric, and a few littluns. They can barely do anything, and they struggle to keep a fire going, because they get tired faster. The boys have permanently run out of hope for being
Symbols are made to show a profound meaning of something to the world, whether it is a positive symbol or a diabolical symbol. The protagonist, Ralph, and another boy known as Piggy are stranded on a deserted island after surviving a plane crash. Ralph uses a conch shell to alert the other boys of where he is, and once gathered they decide to designate a leader. The second task Ralph declares, is the first time we see the fire, that they light a signal fire on the mountain. The boys without any other thought go to light the fire. Throughout, the rest of the novel the importance of the fire becomes more and more influential. The fire in Lord of the Flies by William Golding represents hope, destruction, and savagery found in society. …show more content…
In the beginning, the boys want to go home. They want to be returned to the adult world, and to eventually return home. They hope for someone to save them, and now the fire represents what that want. This hope will become their destruction. On page 169, after Jack's tribe steals Piggy's glasses from Ralph's group. The boys assumed that Jack's tribe would try to pilfer the conch, but the thing they take is the glasses that are used to light the fires. Ralph's group is no longer able to create a fire, and they don't have hope left. Ralph's group is stuck, they cannot construct a signal fire on the beach anymore, because the way they create the fire is with Piggy's glasses. There are few boys left in Ralph's group: him, Piggy, Samneric, and a few littluns. They can barely do anything, and they struggle to keep a fire going, because they get tired faster. The boys have permanently run out of hope for being