Lord of the flies

‘The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it’ (John 1:5, The Bible). Life as it is is a choice, a choice between good and evil. For generations good and evil has co-existed on the Earth, within mankind. It has been a test man has never conquered; the evil within us. ‘And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually’ (Genesis 6:5). Hence, in The Lord of the Flies Golding uses biblical allusions to show the presence of good and evil within mankind. Throughout the book Golding shows numerous exa...