William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

William Golding’s Lord of The Flies represents an example of outstanding literature. Written in 1954, the book has become the subject of many critical essays and literary analysis. The book’s ability to be looked at through multiple literature lenses makes interpreting and breaking down the book complex. Many analyses of the book focus on society and social status, and do so for a reason. In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, society and social classes become quite important. The stranded boys’ attempt to create, attempt to maintain, and overall loss of class and society become a struggle throughout the book. The book begins with several English military school boys who become stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean. The …show more content…
He tells Jack and his choir boys that they can hunt for meat. Ralph gives Jack an important role which the other boys look up to. He also assigns Simon, to help him and Jack explore the island. Ralph also assigns Jack and his “hunters” to keep a fire going. All of these examples, the meetings, the conch, the rules, and the division of labor all represent an attempt to establish a firm society that the boys can depend on. Ralph and Piggy especially care about society and democracy as Theodore Dalrymple, another literary critic, said,“Ralph and Piggy, though temperamentally very different and of two social classes, represent rationality and the rule of law” (Dalrymple …show more content…
in “Lord of the Flies Themes:Human, Society, Fear” 8). Within the quote he provides a summary of the novel and his central idea. Without consequences in society, society could not function because man would do what he wishes without any remorse. This lesson of society and social classes represents just one of the many points of analysis and reasons why Lord of The Flies became popular. The moral of the story becomes easier to relate to as one sees more evil from the people as they and the circumstance evolve. How they respond to said “evil” whether like Ralph, sensibly and calm, or like Jack, barbaric and violent, becomes their choice. Golding shows what happens when they make the wrong choice in hopes to persuade people from falling victim to “the beast.” The beast represents not an actual monster, but the evil that all man possesses deep inside. Overall Lord of The Flies offers a lesson to mankind from William

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