Lor Lord Of The Flies: A Literary Analysis

The story of The Lord of the Flies takes place over a long period of time and many events occur that change the circumstances of a normal real-world setting. Using children as all of the characters not only added to the effect of touching at the core nature of man, but exemplified it to be more pure and true in the aspect that they had not experienced civilized life as long as an adult would have and that they were forced to mature outside of their usual niche. The longer that the children were on the island the more detached to society they had become, this escalated to the point where the boys were used to killing, being obsessed with power, and physically put their bodies under stress to a point of fainting. The farther the lifestyle on the island was drifting away from the lifestyle they previously were in the harder it was for the reader to imagine an appropriate ending for the story. Although the ending to the book was not as fulfilling as hoped, William Golding used the most effective way to end the story without overwhelming the reader.
Every character within the story had represented something core aspect or trait of mankind. Chaos, organization, invention, good, evil and more were all explored within Lord of the Flies. In the ending the boys are rescued by a naval ship, and once the officer has seen what the boys have done on the island, he turns his back on them, this part of the novel is when the final theme of the story is revealed. The naval officer represented society, or civilization. While writing the final pages of the book, William Golding was trying to say that at the same time does society acknowledge and understand the importance of the suppressed human nature, but at the same time chooses to ignore or look