William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

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What is the main message of Golding’s ‘Lord of the flies’? The lord of the flies goes deep into the mental stability of children, whose world is decaying around them. Primarily there is a nuclear war going on in the background of the story and they are marooned on a desert island; with no adults to help keep order and morality, the line between good and bad begins to become blurred as the realisation that there are no rules starts to set in. At the start of the novel there is an immediate problem with the so called ‘Paradise’, during an assembly a young boy (or ‘littleun’) only six years old takes the conch and timidly tells everyone of a beastie on the island. After being laughed at and told he must have imagined it, he persists in claiming he saw ‘A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it.’ …show more content…
But Simon is the only one to realise that the ‘beastie’ isn’t about a physical creature, it’s about the beastie inside of us, that side of us that is only kept deep inside due to rules and discipline. But on the island there are no laws, and the dark side begins to seep out of all of the children, showing the reader that even though these children are English school kids and read the bible, without the hand of the law keeping them in check the dark side shows in