Lord of the Flies Points

1. Golding’s use if the “beast” is didactic because it slowly shows how the children began to fall to savagery over fear of it and how this leads to anarchy and the killing of Simon an Piggy.

2. The beast is seen as a real thing on the island which frightens the boys. The beast is actually something internal. It is in the soul and mind of the boys, leading them to the natural chaos of a society with no leaders. Only Simon understands what the real beast is, but is killed when he attempts to tell the boys about it.

3. The world of grown-ups has a large significance at this point because it symbolizes the only order that the children know. Ralph wants a sign to come down to remind all the children that there is order in the world.

4. Golding’s view on society is that it is full of savagery and only a few people are able to go through it with out wanting to be savage. The

5. The hunt symbolizes the turning of normal people to the savages they try so hard not to be. While in the hunt they children fell that nothing else is important and are carried on by the thrill and excitement that comes when they finally find a pig.

6. Self-discovery plays a large part in this novel. Golding wants the reader to look into him/herself and look at the problems that the characters in the book encounter and see how they themselves would react if they were in that situation. He also wants us to see that inside us all there is good and evil and we should chose to follow the path of good, not evil.

7. Simon is an archetype because he never reverts to his savage side even when every one else has. He acts morally out of the belief in the values of it and not out of the guilt and threat of punishment like everyone else. Jack on the other hand is an archetype for evil because he is one of the first to turn to his savage instincts.

8. There are many things going on in the outside world at the time that are also happening in the book. One of which is the war (WWII), which Golding mentions periodically through out the book. Anther correlation would be the battle between good and evil. A final correlation would be the out look on society and how it seems to be going backward to its savage instincts.

9. I think this line is where Simon begins to discover that the beast is not a real thing but just a part of every person. This scene sets us up for the discovery that there is no beast by Simon but instead a sort of beast within us all that urns to come out. When Simon has a seizure from the “beast you find out that it is the beasts overpowering symbolism that has made Simon realize that the “beast” is not a real.

10. I think Golding places Ralph and Jack close together to show us the difference between the two of them and the ideals they strive for. He also does this to show how the savagery of one man can destroy a whole group of peoples.

11. Ralph can be seen as a symbol of order and democracy whilst Jack can be seen as a symbol for anarchy and savagery that is within us all.

12. The lord of the flies is an extended metaphor because it represents so many things in this novel. The first of which is the pigs head on the stake in the middle of the clearing. Another is that it resents the evil in the world .

13. Things start to break up because of the fear that there is a beast. This is foreshadowed