The Lord of the Flies in Different Interpretations.

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The Lord of the Flies in Different Interpretations

        The novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ can be interpreted at a number of different views. Lord of the Flies refers to Beelzebub, another name for the devil.  He is also called the Lord of Filth and Dung. Throughout the novel, the children grow dirtier and dirtier, an outward reflection of their inner state. As their savagery and evil increases, they seek a symbol, a god to worship. When Jack and his hunters kill a boar, they have their opportunity; they leave the pig's head impaled on a stake as an offering to the beast. The head is soon rotting and covered with flies. The head, referred to as the "Lord of the Flies" then serves as a symbol of the evil and savagery of Jack's tribe of
hunters. At the end of the novel, Ralph, with disgust, knocks the boar's skull to the ground and seizes the stick to use as a spear. He understands the evil that surrounds him in the person of Jack, and he seeks to destroy it.

        The novel is an adventure story as a whole. It is about the struggle of survival and dominance. It gives us an idea of what young boys may have to do in real life situations. Permitting Ralph who is saved by ‘Deus ex Machina.’ This means ‘god coming down on a machina. This is very classical in terms of the adventure story.

        Lord of the Flies is an intrigue of the assumption of Ballantyne’s Coral Island. In Coral Island, three English boys called Ralph, Jack and Peterkin are shipwrecked on a tropical island, meet pirates and cannibals, and conquer all adversities with English fortitude. Good is therefore defined as being English and Christian and jolly, and evil is unchristian, savage and adult. Golding regards Coral Island morality as unrealistic, and therefore not truly moral, and he has used it ironically in his own novel, as a foil for his version of man's moral nature."

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Irony is a widely used tool in "Lord of the Flies", and it is sometimes used in an obvious way, sometimes more concealed. For example, the morning after the savages have attacked the remains of Ralph's group to steal the glasses, Ralph and Eric are both proud of the fight they put up. But as a matter of fact, they beat each other in the dark. Another irony is that the boys escaped from one war, and arrived at another. Then a naval officer, a representative for the war, takes them back to what is probably still a war. When ...

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