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Symbols in Lord of the Flies
- The Conch
- democracy, social order, respect,
power
- "magic
shell"
- R: "Whoever holds the conch gets to
speak"
- "The conch
exploded into
a thousand
white
fragments and
ceased to
exist."
- Conch is destroyed: end of
order
- democracy, social order, respect,
power
- The Fire
- fire destroys island
but is also only
hope of rescue:
symbol of hope of
rescue and
destruction of
island
- "A fire, make
a fire!" -
recognize
that fire is
essential for
survival
- R: "The fire is
the most
important thing
on the island"
- R: "Can't you
see we ought
to die before
we let the fire
out!"
- last connection to civilization
- loss of fire: loss of desire to be
rescued
- fire destroys island
but is also only
hope of rescue:
symbol of hope of
rescue and
destruction of
island
- Pig's Head on a
Stick
- Part of Simon's
hallucination
- "You knew didn't you? I'm part of
you."
- Beelzebub
- "fun": foreshadows Simon's
death
- Part of Simon's
hallucination
- Piggy's glasses
- last
connection to
civilization
- power: fire
- Piggy's
intelligence/Piggy's
physical weakness
- glasses break:
social order breaks
down
- last
connection to
civilization
- Painted Faces
- "The mask was a thing of
its own, behind which
Jack hid, liberated from
shame and
self-conciousness"
- reveals boys' true
nature
- let "liberates" boys into
savagery
- loss of
humanity
- loss of identity: boys become
tribe
- "The mask was a thing of
its own, behind which
Jack hid, liberated from
shame and
self-conciousness"
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