Lord of the Flies as a Religious Allegory Essay

There are m any(prenominal) ways to read schoolmaster of the fly. To some it is simply an adventure story about a group of boys stranded on a desert island, others interpret it, and nail the boys as metaphors for important aspects of our everyday lives. Several different theories name been presented, claiming to relieve Goldings symbolism. What more seem to have overlooked, is that the answer is right thither in front of them. It is in the title Lord of the flies, a translation of the greek word Beelzebub. And what do most plurality think about when they hear this name? The Devil, Satan himself Lord of the Flies is an everyegory showing the fight between Christian and Pagan values. The credit that more than anyone represents Christianity in the book is Simon. The first time you read through the story, he is probably the character that is the hardest to describe and find a function for. He is different and does not pit in among the other boys, still if you go occulter int o the book, it be amazes more and more obvious that Simons life on the island is strikingly similar to the life of another person that did not fit in. A person that lived some 2000 years ago in Israel. reasonable like the Nazarene Christ Simon cared about the sm all told and vulnerable, he love nature and all living.Simon is also a prophet. He knows that Ralph will come back to civilization alive. He does not say anything about himself or Piggy. Neither Simon nor Jesus are ever scared, because they are certain that what is meant to retrieve will prevail. They were both able to challenge the unknown and conquer it. Jesus won over death, Simon faced the Beast and came back alive. Jesus did it for all the people living on Earth, Simon for the other boys. What is so puzzling and criminal is that they were both killed when they tried to share what they had found out. They were both killed in angriness and in the belief that they were evil. On the other side, representing paganism an d hedonism, we see jackstones and his hunters. All they care about are themselves. They do not insufficiency to live by any rules and they do not have any respect for the island, They burn and kill without worries, all to please themselves. The tribe loses all features of civilization, the notwithstanding thing that influences them, except for their own will, is the fear of the Beast. None of them have ever seen an actual monster, but it is a fear of the unknown. In many ways the Beast becomes a religion for the boys.As we know hunters did in ancient times, the choirbboys start to sacrifice bureau of their prey, They leave meat so that the Beast shall like them and leave them alone. The most abstract and symbolic nonessential in the book occurs when Simon sees this sacrifice. The symbol of Christianity, and what is good, meets the symbol of the Devil, and all that is evil. We know that Simon is only hallucinating because of his epilepsy, but a lot of what he sees make sense . The plants bloody head convinces him that everything is bad businessThe half bar eyes were dim with the infinite cynisism of adult life. The Lord of the Flies says calculate thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill Im part of you Im the reason why its no go Why things are what they are. What Golding is saying is that the Devil is hidden somewhere deep inside of all people. Without morals, law and order it will eventually erupt and come out.http//www.malvik.vgs.no/engelsk/legend.htm (1 of 2)4/20/2005 55548 PM allegoryhttp//www.malvik.vgs.no/engelsk/allegory.htm (2 of 2)4/20/2005 55548 PM