Lord of the Flies

DISCUSS TWO WAYS IN WHICH A TEXT YOU’VE STUDIED EFFECTIVELY PRESENTED ITS IDEAS


In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, the ideas are effectively presented through the use of symbolism and characters.

Golding uses symbols to convey ideas of the story. Each symbol is used throughout the novel to represent something. One of the first ones to appear and probably the most important symbol is the conch. The conch represents democracy, power and control. This is shown when the conch appears when the rules are being made. Piggy is associated with the conch a lot because he too wanted democracy so badly. As the novel progressed we find that Piggy and Ralph become g...