Though both the conch and the Lord of the Flies are symbols in the book, they both differ or contradict. While the conch shows the ability people have to be civilized, the Lord of the Flies shows the ability of people to be uncivilized. In the book, the conch keeps the children in a running, cooperating environment while the Lord of the Flies (symbolizing the evil within humans) plays a part in the destruction of government. Evidently, the conch holds Democracy within it while the Lord of the Flies holds Dictatorship and Anarchy.
does this sound good? what else can i add? its about comparing the conch to the lord of the flies
please help me! thankss!
2006-11-19 21:21:41 · 5 answers · asked by Lina 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You are one sharp cookie. I LOVE this book. My son hit another child while he was in Jr. High - one younger and smaller than him. I made him read this book and write a paper for me. He LOVED it.
Anyway, I can't say I'm quoting Golding (and, as I understand, he refused to be specific about his symbols), but I would say the Lord of the Flies represents primal human nature. The conch represents the desire for organization and government of any kind.
Golding was certainly writing from the perspective of the post WWI environment in which he lived. But he was also anticipating the environment that led to WWII - people will naturally gravitate to organization (conch), but the natural order is ruled by chaos (L of the F). If people are not aware enough ( or desperate enough), they will passively choose whatever sense of organization is available That is what you see as the contradiction - human nature is instinctively drawn to both dominance and governance.
2006-11-19 22:09:40 · answer #1 · answered by isaidno 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did a paper on this a year ago. If I remember correctly, in an interview with Golding, he revealed how the book is a microcosm of what happened to the people during WWI. Both conch and Lord of the Flies become symbolic of what man is. When stuck on a island, boys(men) adhere to the rule of the conch as civilized men do, but as circumstances take its toll on them (onset of war), the rule of the Lord of the Flies become the only way to go. There is no more right or wrong just the desire to survive.
I hope this helps.
2006-11-19 21:43:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Because the boys are the beast! MWHAHAHAAH 2. That Jack is a manipulative little bastard and needs to be killed! 3. A GIANT PIG FACE ON A STICK!
2016-05-21 21:57:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
beelzebub lord of the flies...
its about morality
its taken from the bibbbble...
2006-11-19 21:23:42 · answer #4 · answered by israeli_stuck_in_usa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It shows that people are really not civilized... that government knows they have to control people so as to keep them orderly...they do that by fear... so their is both in society as in everything... order yet chaos...
2006-11-19 22:56:44 · answer #5 · answered by avava9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋