How Does Golding Use Language In Lord Of The Flies
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How has Golding used silence and language to enhance the story? Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel where silence and language is used as a medium to communicate among the boys on the island. Language is used as a form of civilization but as the days go by the language starts to depreciate person by person along with the need of civilization. Language and silence are also used to foretell future events in the novel. ‘The conch was silent.’ Here Golding uses irony to show how the conch, the loudest material on the island, could be silent and be ‘forgotten’ at one point o time. The conch could symbolically represent the boys on the island as they being humans could yet become savages. The silence of the jungle portrays the evil among the hidden creatures in the forest. Beasts that could take over you entire soul and turn you into someone else. ‘The beast is within you’ is an absurd yet truthful line for the boys on the island. Golding illustrates a juxtaposition for silence. Silence at times is as ‘calm and cool like the waves in the sea’ but at times ‘more oppressive than the heat’ After every epiphanic moment in the novel there is a huge pause of silence. ‘The great rock loitered, poised and smashed a deep hole into the forest. The forest shook like an enraged monster …show more content…
At the beginning they are bound by civilization and found it easy to communicate as they all spoke one common language. ‘Ralph found he could talk fluently and explain what he had to say.’ Jack refers t his fellow mates as his ‘choir’ then as time passed he called them both ‘choir-hunters’ and lastly only ‘hunters. This shows the path of Jack’s mental outlook on civilization and how it diminishes in his speech. ‘The quality of Jack’s speech slewed Ralph on the sand.’ Here speech represents Jacks nature as Jack turns in to a complete savage and this shocks
How has Golding used silence and language to enhance the story? Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel where silence and language is used as a medium to communicate among the boys on the island. Language is used as a form of civilization but as the days go by the language starts to depreciate person by person along with the need of civilization. Language and silence are also used to foretell future events in the novel. ‘The conch was silent.’ Here Golding uses irony to show how the conch, the loudest material on the island, could be silent and be ‘forgotten’ at one point o time. The conch could symbolically represent the boys on the island as they being humans could yet become savages. The silence of the jungle portrays the evil among the hidden creatures in the forest. Beasts that could take over you entire soul and turn you into someone else. ‘The beast is within you’ is an absurd yet truthful line for the boys on the island. Golding illustrates a juxtaposition for silence. Silence at times is as ‘calm and cool like the waves in the sea’ but at times ‘more oppressive than the heat’ After every epiphanic moment in the novel there is a huge pause of silence. ‘The great rock loitered, poised and smashed a deep hole into the forest. The forest shook like an enraged monster …show more content…
At the beginning they are bound by civilization and found it easy to communicate as they all spoke one common language. ‘Ralph found he could talk fluently and explain what he had to say.’ Jack refers t his fellow mates as his ‘choir’ then as time passed he called them both ‘choir-hunters’ and lastly only ‘hunters. This shows the path of Jack’s mental outlook on civilization and how it diminishes in his speech. ‘The quality of Jack’s speech slewed Ralph on the sand.’ Here speech represents Jacks nature as Jack turns in to a complete savage and this shocks