How Does Golding Create An Allegory In Lord Of The Flies

In the Lord of the Flies by the author William Golding, he creates an allegorical novel based on stranded children abandoned on an island. In order to create an allegory, it's a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events(Allegory). The novel Lord of the Flies it begins with a group of children that were stranded on an remote island without adult supervision. They start to develop their own civilization but however as they continue to work together they also start to develop their inner savage. Toward near the end, their inner savage starts to controls them and ends with a disturbing and tragic ending. Although they’ve built a civilization, Golding’s has used symbolism and the literal meaning of being civil and human nature. In the Lord of the Flies, Golding uses this allegory structure and uses symbolism to describe the human nature with a conch, fire, and the beast. When creating a civilization, the conch became an essential symbol in the novel to create a sense of law and order. Earlier in the novel, the conch, blown by
Earlier in the novel, when the beast was mentioned, most of them thought it was a physical being rather than an inner one. “ And I’m the Beast. . . . Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are?”(Goldings 142). When it comes to the term, beast, it relates to how the boys creates a fear based off an imaginary beast but it also relates to the inner beast within them. Since the human race is naturally savage, people can easily lean toward barbarism and forget their own identity in society. Golding’s displays extraordinary meaning toward humanity’s nature especially if a man is good he may never remain