The Lord Of Flies: Symbolism Study

Lord Of The Flies: The Philosophical Sense The novel Lord Of The Flies, written by author, William Golding is among one of the world's most celebrated and most recognized novels. This symbolic novel has a number of different interpretations. One of these is that it is an anti-utopian novel. Some of the key aspects of the novel which gave rise to the interpretations are the symbolic nature of the characters and the settings. Utopia - …

…who have ruled through fear and cruelty. Religions played on primitive instincts and war breaking out with death and destruction as the inevitable consequences. William Golding was a reluctant participant in World War Two and has seen his work as cautiously optimistic: "It is in that attempt to see how things have become what they are, where they went wrong and where right, that the only hope lies of having control over our own future."