“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding Essay

We were clean-handed before we started to begin feeling fineable and deep inside the nook of our minds and hearts we have found a hidden treasure that we once had and now seek. One of the most cherished gifts integrity substructure obtain in life is the gift of purity and once it has been taken away it can no longer be returned. The term honour is interpreted as the freedom from guilt or sin through cosmos unacquainted with evil. Once a child is exposed to blind ideas much(prenominal) as believing the existence is a perfect institutionalise and then realizes the cruelty which inhabits inwardly it, sinlessness is incapacitated. William Goldings original of the Flies outlines how civilization allows man to remain innocent and once the needs for pick become crucial, the primitive instincts of man essential come to parity with the necessities one needs to survive. While loss of purity is a predominant theme in the novel, the symbolisations of the savage, the blushin g mushroomed faces, and the woodwind clarification help to illustrate the importance of savagery created within the boys over their while on the island.Man leave always try to convince themselves that at that place is no evil inside of them by making something or individual else seem to be the cause of evil this is mainly unadorned in the idea that the boys in smooth consternation in themselves due to the existence of the beast. Realistically, the beast symbolizes the inner beast inside all of the boys on the island and eventually leads each of them to lose their ingenuousness and increase their savage desire instincts based on their fear and expansion of belief in the beasts existing. A significant firearm in the novel in which the beast is introduced is in Chapter 2, page 34 where one of the little boys claims that he had seen the beastie somewhere inside of the woods. At this primitively point in the novel we argon able to see the visual sense in which all the boys h ave put into effect on what scarce the beastie looks cargon and it is sort of evident that Golding has used this idea in the earlier chapters to later portray the scene of chaos and terror of the beast.The discovery that something different than the boys is on the island creates fear in all of them in which their animalistic instincts will begin to surface because now they fear their safety and the need for survival must be placed into effect. The beast initself can be symbolized as incarnation of the Christian nonion of Satan, which motivates the boys to become more cruel and violent in behavior. The characters of Ralph and dogshit be overly affected by the beasts existence for it creates a rupture between them and their fareers, where the follow up to the end of the book shows how all the boys will turn on Ralph, who throughout most of the novel was the most civilized. Simon, being the Christ-like figure in Lord of the Flies, is the only character who communicates with t he beast and is one of the most ethical characters that realize the inner beast amongst the other boys on the island, especially when the boys retrieve in solely having fun instead of take a chanceing ways to cook off the island and getting back home.This has gone instead far enough. My pitiable misguided child do you think you know better than I do? There was a pause. Im warning you. Im going to get angry. Dyou see? Youre non wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. (Golding, 144)Simon is also the only character who discovers that the cold parachutist that had landed on the island is the imaginary number beast that everyone has become terrified of and is also the cause of the diminishing military personnel being morality within the boys. When he attempts to tell the rest of the boys that he had witnessed the dead parachutist, the boys are under impression that Simon is the beast because they are sightless and in a panic they brutally murder him.An equa lly grievous symbol as in comparison to the beast would be the fact that the boys paint their faces. When mother fucker had appeared before his group of boys with his face smeared in clay like war paint he decides in taking the boys on a pig hunt. The mask then internally transforms gob in which his important instincts come to surface. He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling (Golding, 64). It appears evident that the boys are becoming savage like because of their painted faces, the paint masks are used to infiltrate all the boys souls because now they feel more powerful. The masks not only instigate the evil inside all of the boys merely are symbols representing the chaos currently going on in the world which is war. For hunting. uniform in the war. You know dazzle paint. Like things trying tolook like something else (Golding, 63). With this idea in mind the anonymity of the masks create chaos and frenzy in which it furthers the boys advantage in ki lling the beast.Now that the boys are corrupt by the beast and have strengthened their egos by painting their faces, innocence that a child should withhold is lost because now their connatural instincts are to act war-like which the doings of an adult are. Just as in war, close to an opposing team causes blood-lust for the victorious person, in this case it would be Jack who succumbs himself to the thrill of violence, creates his own sub-society, and engages in rituals of violence and slaughter. Furthermore, the clash between Jack and Ralph grows deeper because of Jacks tyrannical rule and Ralphs democratic perspective, and the fact that Jack is more concerned on becoming a better hunting watch where as Ralph is concerned in getting everyone off of the island creates huge strain between them and foreshadows the breakdown in which the boys will create for themselves in their invented society. It is lightheaded for one to hide behind a mask to hide fear but in the novels context the masks do not work as something that shelters the boys but rather liberates and frees them into believing they can do anything they want while wearing it and not worrying about important matters.Another symbol throughout the novel Lord of the Flies would be the woods glade which is the open space in the jungle that Simon finds. Although it seems that the forest glade seems minor in its symbolism it actually has greater centre than depicted. Simon is the only character who sees the jungle as a tranquil and well-favoured place as compared to Jacks character that only sees the jungle as a dangerous place. Later on throughout the novel when Simon returns to the forest glade he is met with the pigs head in which a pacifistic place has now been disrupted by this bloody offering, which later symbolizes the congenital human evil that affects and harms childhood innocence.A child, being symbolized as a peaceful jungle with nothing to harm it, has become corrupt by something such as the pigs head being brought into the childs environment. The pigs head now instigates the childs innate and natural evil to come out so that it can find the needs to survive and because of this, innocence has been lost. Living in the 21st cytosine means that throughout peoples entire lives they become sheltered from evilsdepicted in things such as the media, but once we are exposed to the outside(a) world and engage in immoral acts and grow out of being a child, we automatically lose that innocence we once obtained because everything becomes a mettlesome of survival of the fittest.Due to all the dominant symbols in the novel Lord of the Flies, it is extremely evident how all of them work together to structure the interchange theme of loss of innocence. All the boys on the island had been exposed to ideas that have been unplowed blind to them before that had reached the island, but still they were able to survive spirit by bringing forth their innate human instincts. The boys be ing quite educated and reserved in their lives before coming to island shows that loss of innocence can occur to anyone no matter what lifestyle they lived prior. The fear the boys had throughout the novel brings forth the loss of innocence because it represents the potential evil instilled within all humans especially when they are placed in certain environmental conditions in which for the boys was the island they had landed on.The island itself being seen as a nirvana comes to an end when the boys instinct take control of their rationality. Society today is still faced with the inner beast inside many people this is quite evident in the fact that our world today is still modify with criminals, gangs and tyrannical people. If humans werent so instantly triggered by their innate evil desires then their wouldnt be treacherous acts of rape and there wouldnt be secret organizations such as the vigilantes of Ku Klux Klan that advocate one races supremacy over another.The things the boys of the island in Lord of the Flies do are just a miniscule example of real life-size issues that can occur anywhere at anytime in ones life that brings out the inner-beast in everyone. The experience of losing ones innocence is often part of growing up but can be painful and tragic. Tragedy in this experience strange any other faced in a persons lifetime is that innocence is the gift that once its damaged it cannot be retained again and all senses of lifes marvels are lost simply because of humans innate evils.