Lord of the Flies Analytical Text Response- Foreshadowing

Lord of the Flies Analytical Text Response- Foreshadowing

The Lord of the Flies by Willian Golding is a novel that explores two main themes, savagery and civilisation. The group of British Boys are ‘placed’ on an isolated island during a middle of a world war. On the island the boys established freedom and innocence among themselves, over the progression of time, the boys demonstrated fundamentals of human nature beyond civilised human. Golding contends when the boys are taken away from the influence of society they lose their morality and priority and revert to darker more primitive ways to achieve power such as murder. The usage of characterisation, symbolism and character development are numerous literary devices which Golding uses in the novel to demonstrate the foreshadowing of evil.

The wildfire undoubtedly foreshadows the actions that will follow as the boys can’t depend on the supervision from grown-ups, they require the skills to look after themselves. The boys have been stimulated as sooner or later we will all be rescued. The making of a fire enthuses all the boys, Jack who has the awareness of using Piggy’s contact lens to start the fire. His unexpected manner panics Piggy. Despite the difference between the two of a few major characters, even the boys are being able to work together including Jack. “We’re not savages. We’re English.” The irony of this quote will develop conspicuously later in the novel. When the boys are approaching to an agreement, at the same time Jack is helping his choir group which they could observe the fire that will eventually revive. “Smoke was rising here and there” and before long “the flames…crept as a jaguar” and within several minutes, the area was “savage with smoke and flame.” The confusion and realisation of the little’un with the birthmark are nowhere to be found, the wildfires render the boys speechless. Their actions foreshadow their ominous future and more destructions will happen later in the novel leading to the darker side of human nature.

The novel Lord of the Flies precisely told the story of within every human being, the righteousness and mistake can sometimes be a huge struggle. Since the beginning of the novel, the boys set their consciousness straight and were acting ordinarily just like in a normal society including rules to obey and jobs allocated to live. From time to some of boys include the chosen leader or the group Ralph the intellectual Piggy and Simon who are peaceful and compassion who achieved to remain discipline, but others chose their own path to become savages as their moral decay gradually, a great example would be Jack and his hunters. As the boys begin to fear their own illustration which they created called “the beast”, it was Simon who realises ‘the beast’ is a so-called creation coming from their fear. “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew it… I’m part of you?” Said Lord of the Flies. Jack and his group also developed a ritual to celebrate the killing of the pig initiated by the boys forming a circle and chanting “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” The extraordinary fear of the beast suggests the boys will take certain actions against Simon. Two of the few major events, the ritual and the talk to Lord of The Flies is the build-up that deeply portrays the instinct of terror which will take over the boys eventually. The events really convey the frenzied state of the boys are in when they kill Simon, further foreshadows the darker side of human nature.

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