Fear And Reason In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

A major theme of the action-adventure story Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is that fear controls humanity more than reason. In most catastrophic situations, people act based on the amount of fear that they have in that moment. However, in this scenario, the boys in the novel do not have the ability to ‘move on’ from their current crisis; as they have become isolated on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and with no way of telling how long it will be until they are rescued. Golding has explored the theme in the novel that communication is most important in foul situations when Ralph discovers the conch among the bank of the leaves in the first chapter of Lord of the Flies; then proceeds to make the significant decision to put the creamy shell to his mouth and then make the sound, which
In the passage of the novel, where there is no particular dialogue, the main speaker is the narrator and they are directing their words toward the reader to display the juncture when the Conch was destroyed in the near-end of Lord of the Flies. The author creates a direct connection between the destruction of the Conch shell and the end of the book, right around the time that the boys are rescued from the island from the British military. During the time mentioned, the story takes place in the forest on the island. In the moment mentioned, Golding creates a sense that the end of the boy’s time on the island is near, as the conch was the first thing on the island that signified the fact that there was someone trying to bring a group together. Since the conch has recently been destroyed, William Golding could be attempting to foreshadow the end of the boys’ time on the