“What’s the dirtiest thing there is?” As proposed by a character in Ghoulding’s Lord of the Flies, perhaps no one can faithfully answer this question quite as well as Ghoulding himself. In Lord of the Flies, Ghoulding answers this question through his symbolic story of human conflict. The deeper meaning of the book expands on this topic, right down to the crux of human imperfection. Ghoulding shows us man’s essential illness through a series of events and sub-themes, each portraying a different aspect of the over all message. With the severity of Ghoulding’s plot increasing throughout the story, his point becomes clear with every major turn for the worse. The key to Ghoulding’s dark view of mankind is his intricate plot, but more importantly, the characters by which the plot revolves. By the final chapter, his messa
From chaos to violence to murder, Ghoulding has created one of the most intensely thought provoking stories ever created. In his tale of human flaw, there is no need to search for a message; his dark outlook on the destiny of man reaches out and grabs you by the collar. He has effectively explored and explained (from his point of view) the darkness of man, his essential flaw - his willingness to destroy another, also known as, ‘the dirtiest thing there is.’
The first appearance of violence on the island is with the killing of the pig, which was mentioned early on but served only as foreshadow to what would come of the island. This introduction of violence signals the downward spiral that spans the rest of the story. Ghoulding’s character, Jack, perfectly symbolizes this point through his willingness to kill and his accepta
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