In his classic novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding utilizes many elements of symbolism to help accomplish his motif, which is "man is basically evil." Symbolism can be anything, a person, place or thing, used to portray something beyond itself. In some way or another we all have that need for putting pain in others, even if it was just beating or killing a person or animal.
In the novel Jack is first to show the nature of evil in his internal savageness. Jack is a tall thin boy with red hair in a black clo