Lord of the Flies Allegory

Lord of the Flies Allegory Golding’s Lord of the Flies has functioned as an allegory for many readers ever since it was first published in 1954. There are many different symbolic ways that you are able to interpret the story as an allegory. You could see the book as an allegory for the struggle between good and the evil in the world. The characters in the story fit and characterize many of the same aspects …showed first 75 words of 531 total…

…showed last 75 words of 531 total…throughout the book. When Simon and the Lord of the flies start speaking to each other during one of Simon’s epileptic seizures the famous meeting between Jesus and the Devil in the desert is recreated in the novel. Simon was mocked and ridiculed for his behavior by the Lord of the Flies, but Simon tried to just keep his cool by telling himself that it was just a “Pig’s head on a stick.”(143)