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The Forms of Allegory in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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commentary on our world, our government, and on our position in the world. Others see it as a direct allegory of religious conditions regarding good and evil. And, still yet,  there are those who see it as a story which illustrates that good will never win over evil, which is perhaps the nature of man. In the following paper we  examine a few allegorical perspectives concerning William Goldings "Lord of the Flies." Allegory 1 According to one author, "Goldings theme is not just the obvious evils of the  boys society; it includes the notion that the boys are a microcosm of society. While readers may be able to ascertain his theme immediately prior to the ending, the connection  to the real world is weak and underdeveloped" (Jones lordoftheflies.html). In this regard many feel that a happy ending actually sacrificed what the entire message of the story could well  have been: "Critics who claim that something was sacrificed for the sake of a happy ending fail to understand Goldings thesis: the boys are allegorical of society as a whole,  yet are rescued by that very society which they symbolize. In a sense, the boys swap one war for another" (Jones lordoftheflies.html). In this way of examining the story  we see that the boys have perhaps just been initiated into the real world of men. They have bridged the gap between boyhood and manhood and, "Instead of being at  war with other children, they re-join a society which is at war lead by adults who are supposedly more mature than the boys. Like the island, the world is an  isolated entity, but no one can rescue the world" (Jones lordoftheflies.html). In this perspective we see that "Goldings boys are symbolic of the world, but he cannot juxtapose the world