Symbolism in Lord of the Flies :: William Golding

Symbolism in Lord Of The FliesIn Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding, in that respect is an immense amount of symbolism. A major symbol mentioned multiple times was the pigs chieftain and the wight. There were some otherwise symbols including Piggys Specs, human brutality, and death. Golding shows that when people are taken away from society they baffle more like animals and much less civilized.The first symbol, the pigs head, is depicted as dim-eyed, grinning faintly, blood blackening between the teeth, and the obscene thing is cover with a black blob of flies that tickled under his nostrils. As the doubling is further depicted the reader gains a champion of brutality shown through and through this one human action. Simon begins talking to the head and sluice though the intercourse may have been a hallucination, Simon learns that the beast isnt an external force and the pigs head tells him, Fancy thinking the beast was something you could capture and kill O You knew, di dnt you? Im quality of you? The gruesomeness of this symbol is once again shown at the end of the intercourse when Simon faints after he sees the blackness within, a blackness that spread.Another of the more or less important symbols used to present the theme of the novel is the beast. In the imaginations of the boys, the beast is a source of evil on the island. However, in reality, it represents the evil naturally present within everyone, which is causing life on the island to deteriorate. Simon begins to realize this even before his encounter with the Lord of the Flies, and during one argument over the organism of a beast, he attempts to share his insight with the others. Simon tells them, ?Maybe, O peradventure there is a beast O What I mean is O maybe its only us.? In response to Simons statement, the other boys, who had once conducted their meetings with some sense of order, immediately begin to argue more fiercely. The crowd gives a ? fantastic whoop? when Jack rebukes Ra lph, saying ?Bollocks to the rules Were strong o we hunt If theres a beast, well hunt it down Well close in and astound and beat and beat? The boys fear of the beast and their desire to kill it shows that societys rules once had federal agency over them and has been loosened during the time they have spent without supervision on the island. The evil within the boys has more effect on their existence as they spend more time on the island, isolated from the rest of society, and this blood is portrayed by Piggys Specs.