Lord of the Flies 5

The book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a book full of symbolism. The biggest symbol is the entire island itself. This island and everything connected with this island is a symbol of the world in which we live today. The characters are symbolic of certain groups of people in our society, their actions are comparable to the actions of people in society, and the destructive, physical changes are similar to the changes …

…underlying message and symbol. Golding proves to be a very skilled writer through this work. Here, young boys represent groups of people, their actions are similar to those on the island world, and the physical changes, which happened to the island, are similar to those of our present world. Maybe Golding was trying to foreshadow or even warn us about the future of our earth? Who knows? Maybe he knew something that we do not.