Lord Of The Flies Civilization Vs Civilization Analysis

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Lord of the Flies offers many lessons in the book for people in today’s sociality to look at and put to use. William Golding talks about Good versus Evil, The Fall of Innocence, Civilization versus Savagery. Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel. This novel is mainly about the conflict between Civilization and Savagery. In this novel the character Piggy has glasses, those glass represent civilization. The character Ralph also represents civilization, he also represents leadership and order. The novel represents Civilization and savagery as the two main Characters, Ralph the protagonist, who represents civilization, leadership and order, and Jack the antagonist, who represents savagery and wants power. As the novel goes on Golding show how people have different feelings and how their influences can persuade them to do actions they normally wouldn’t do. For example, Piggy has no savagery feeling, he is nice, but Roger wants to rule the civilization. Golding shows in his novel that savagery is more powerful that civilization. Simon represents Christ in the novel, he is always doing good but, has spells sometimes that leads to seizures and lead him to think that people and or things are talking …show more content…
Golding implies that civilization can migrate but it can never completely get rid of the evil and savagery that they have within them. Simon who represents Christ goes to this place in the forest which is just a place of beauty and to relax but when he returns later on in the book a sow’s head is there on a stick. The head represents Satan; Simon thinks it talking to him but it’s just his fear. Earlier in the book they thought there was a beast after them and they try to stay away from it, but in this part in the novel, Simon realizes there is no beast it is just their