... British schoolboys who find themselves stranded on a tropical island goes beyond what the reader may conceive and it is evidential that "Lord Of the Flies" is an allegorical novel. In this story William Golding employs religious allegory, linking parts of his novel to several biblical stories and portrays Simon as a Christ-like figure. Some events and setting details prove this novel to contain religious ... all the other fruit trees. They have an uncontrollable impulse to take the forbidden fruit. When they take it, it is like a loss of innocence for them as well. Another biblical stor...

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... no longer exist, the dark side will most possibly prevail. This is clearly illustrated in Lord of the Flies, a novel written by William Goldings. After many days on a deserted island with no adults, which meant no way of enforcing authority, Jack's tribe, representing evilness and savagery, destroyed the last traces of civilization when confronted with Ralph's group, who represents law, order and democracy. Without the ... , authority, and order are no longer regarded. As illustrated in the novel Lord of the Flies, a society without the enforcement of laws experience the disappearance of...

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