... of human nature. He demonstrates this by showing the degeneration of a group of boys stranded on a deserted island. As the rules and symbols of power and authority are stripped from the group they revert to savagery power struggles and murder. The strong survive and the weak perish. The story starts when a plane, rescuing children from the war crashes on a remote, uninhabited island. The main protagonists ... wants to treat the island with no respect to satisfy his own desires. Simon who I see as a symbol of goodness, wants to respect and admire the island. He often goes off by himself ...

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... the '"'society.'"' Brook also focuses on they way that they interact but he does not put as much emphasis on the symbolism of the objects, as Golding did. In the text he points out objects such as the conch shell, Piggy"'"s glasses, the beast, and the fire. Each specific object can be tied back into the society that they boys have made ... to regain that order that they once had. The next item that is used for symbolism is Piggy"'"s glasses. Piggy is undoubtedly the most intelligent one on the island, so naturally his glasses would represent some aspect of that. They represent the intel...

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... the Flies, Golding uses a lot of symbolism. He uses different objects in the story to symbolize the boy's conditions. The conch, glasses, fire, and the hair growth are examples of some of the symbols in the story. Golding uses the condition of the fire, glasses, and conch to symbolize the condition of the boy ... 's civilization. To begin, Golding uses the condition of the fire to represent the condition of the boy's civilization. First, the boys work together and get the fire ... the island. Lastly, Golding uses the condition of the conch to symbolize the condition of the boy's civiliz...

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