Lord Of The Flies Verbal Irony Analysis

The irony within situations and statements dominates a story's plot, contributing to both the rising and the falling action, which William Golding accentuates in Lord of the Flies. When a group of young boys crash their plane on an island, they perceive the situation as an adventure, but they soon realize the danger in the unpropitious circumstances at hand. Through the situational and verbal irony that arises, Golding delineates how people can hypocritically adapt to having characteristics they do not condone in others and how innocence shields children from seeing flaws in adults.
Sometimes, a person hypocritically comes to possess certain qualities that they loathe in others. At the beginning of the novel when the boys meet for the first
Perhaps the most innocent at the beginning of Lord of the Flies, Piggy repeatedly makes statements about the adult world that they lack on the island. He continuously says how the "society" on the island acts "like a crowd of kids" and the absence of civilized and responsible adults contributes to their savagery (Golding 38). The defficiencies in adults accentuates the overall point that nobody can attain perfection. Through verbal irony, Golding exhibits how a child's innocence deflects them from seeing the truth about adults- that imperfections exist in everyone. Similar to Piggy's viewpoint, Ralph also looks to adults for help. While justifying in his mind the reason the boys remain on the island, Ralph naively states: "'this is our island. It's a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us, we'll have fun'" (Golding 54). Ralph finds security in believing that the "grown-ups" will rescue them soon, which shields him from the truth. With this statement, Golding portrays a boy who cannot see the faults of adults-the same adults who entered the war responsible for crashing them on the island initially. Childhood innocence blinds Piggy and Ralph from the true reason they remain on the island for such a lengthy period of