lord of the flies book report

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is much more than a simple story about a few boys stranded on an island. It is an elaborate political allegory with social implications reaching back to the fundamental composition of human nature. Golding’s dark naturalistic predisposition shrouds those inborn qualities as Lord of the Flies provides its reader with an overtly pessimistic perspective on unadulterated civilization (or lack thereof). He is able to do this through a uniquely symbolic demographic. The book’s three main characters represent an abbreviated cross-section of humanity: Piggy as the intellectual, Ralph being the proletariat, and Jack acting as a personified anarchist state.
As the story progresses, we see the gradual decline of Piggy’s character, both literally and figuratively. At the book’s inception, we are introduced to a br...