Allegory

get trapped on an island, they strive to be adults and get saved overall. Lord of the flies is considered to be an allegorical novel, “having hidden spiritual meaning that transcends the literal sense of a sacred text” as Merriam Webster states. An allegory holds the reader's attention with storytelling but also hits underneath the surface (which is the allegorical level) with symbols that are accessible to the reader. Lord of the flies has many symbols such as the island which represents…

In “A Christmas Carol” by novelist Charles Dickens, there is the use of characters to effectively create an allegory. An allegory is writing or interpretive piece that has been constructed in a way that can be understood in its hidden meaning. Three examples of this are the three Spirits Scrooge meets: The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Each of these characters have certain allegorical traits and each trait is meant to help teach…

novel, it is also a prime example of an allegorical story. In an allegory novel, literary devices such as characters, setting, and other symbols are used to represent a literal and figurative meaning. In the Hunger Games, the Capitol is a utopian city where the wealthy and powerful reside. In relations to the real world, the Capitol represents Hollywood. Similar to the Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is also an allegory novel. In this novel, a group of young schoolboys are…

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses political allegory to illustrate that humans have a nature of evil inside of them that craves for power. Through the uses of symbols, Golding expresses how the children in Lord of the Flies release their inner savagery and turn a civilized society into utter chaos. Three symbols that represent political allegory are the conch, face paint, and Jack. The conch represents power and democracy. The face paint shows the dominance of the hunters over the rest…

It's World War II and a plane filled with school boys fleeing their country is shot down and land on an Island with no adults to guide them whatsoever, nothing could go wrong, right? In Lord of the Flies by William Golding a allegory the airplane crashes onto the Island and leaving fiery path unlike the movie , where instead of crashing into the island it crashes in the ocean. FIre has a bigger role in the book than water unlike the movie where water is more dominate. In the beginning of the…

Religious allegory shows the capability that the ultimate weapon of evil, fear, possesses over the weak in the battle between good and evil. The boys constantly change what the beast is because they cannot name what it is exactly because they have never seen it. The title of the book is Lord of the Flies, but it also has another meaning to it. This particular name stand for Beelzebub or the Devil. The very name of the book is titled the Devil and in this it must has religious context to it. The…

American society at that time. He shows how the characters in the book were treated during that time period. He makes us ask ourselves why some people are treated this way. He also makes us ask ourselves why some people act the way we do. Allegory is a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation. Curley’s wife is a representation of the superficial women. She shows us the rejection of women a how…

nihilism; a metaphor for the garden of eden; or that it shows the true capacity for evil that lurks within the souls of men, and the rotting pig head represents our moral depravity. I, on the other hand believe the theory that all of the character are allegories (or symbols). Ralph and Piggy together are civilization, Piggy by himself is intelligence (he also represents rationalism, but we’ll get back to that) and his glasses are technology: when the boys steal Piggy’s glasses rather than…

An allegory is a work of literature in which characters or events have both a literal and symbolic meaning. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a literary ballad by Coleridge contains several examples of moral lessons. Throughout the ballad the Albatross is portrayed as an omen. The crew experienced both good and bad situations, because of how they treated the Albatross. Also the water snakes symbolize the idea that nature should be appreciated. The Mariner glorifies the beauty of the water…

that it has tons of symbolism involved. From its characters, animals, and even the setting. Some of the important symbols in Lord of the Flies is the island, the beast, the conch shell, piggy’s glasses, the fire, adults, the scar, and the ocean. Allegory means the expression of symbolic fictional figures. The island is the main setting in Lord of the Flies, most of what is happening will have something to do with the island. It symbolizes paradise, a beautiful place with a bountiful amount of…