Hope And Perseverance In Lord Of The Flies

In William Faulkner’s acceptance speech for Nobel prize in literature, he describes what the role of a writer is when mankind confronts its fear of its annihilation. He firmly believes that a writer’s duty is to remind mankind of its values, and give it hope that it will prevail through hardships. In The Lord of The Flies, the author William Golding also seems to support Faulkner’s beliefs. While Golding shows the hardships that face mankind, primarily ourselves, he gives mankind hope in that we will learn from our mistakes and survive. To this day, both Faulkner’s and Golding’s ideas are relevant today to looking at mankind and society as a whole. In The Lord of The Flies, Golding has illustrated Faulkner’s idea of reminding the reader of hope and perseverance. In the book, the children on island eventually forget about
Instead, the bad temptations in their minds were brought out. This lead to hardships for these children, including some deaths. But despite all of this, they were rescued. Some argue that the book doesn’t give hope even though they survived. But the children in the end begin to see their own mistakes. Like after a war, these children will realize and see the effects of their false morals. This is what provides hope to the reader that humans will survive despite our mistakes. That in the end we will triumph through disasters. Golding in particular shows triumph in The Lord of The Flies through Ralph. Golding centers his story around Ralph, who is one of the only children who follows morally correct beliefs. He values maintaining order in their society so that they will be rescued. As the story progresses he becomes