Dualism In Lord Of The Flies

The coloured sketch of the island represents the duality of fire’s purpose during the boys’ time on the deserted island. On the right-hand side, the fire is shown through the boat which finally took the boys back to civilization. The fire is attached to this because it gave a sense of order and civility in a place with no adults nor consequences. The fire is dimmer on the right-side because the boys had all but lost this civility before they were rescued. A signal fire had become a nuisance and a descent into chaos was quickly approaching. A subtler detail is the blood seeping out of the boat that is meant to rescue the boys. The blood represents the fact that the adult world that seems civilized to the young children is superficial. Beneath the façade of civility is a world that is also at war and not much different from the situation the boys had found themselves in.
First, the fire reveals its danger by almost burning down the whole island and taking the life of a small boy with a peculiar birthmark. The potential of danger is developed further by the boys step away from civility and into a society of savages. Later, the beast pushes the boys to use the dangerous side of fire to hunt the remaining outcast, Ralph. The beast is shown as the rotting pig’s head on a stake; however, it is truly the darkness inherent in every person. The beast is grinning because in the end it succeeded in flushing out the good that was left in each of the kids. In the case of this deserted island, the evil of man had triumphed over the