Character Analysis
This character often represents logic, intelligence, and the voice of reason.
Who is Piggy?
This object begins to literally fade as it loses power.
What is the conch?
The conflict bewteen Ralph and Jack is about this.
What is power or leadership?
William Golding won this award for this book.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
This character changes the most dramatically from civilized schoolboy to violent savage leader.
Who is Jack?
The destruction of this object symbolizes the boys losing intelligence and reason.
What are Piggy's glasses?
This "object" in Ralph's mind demonstrates the internal conflict Ralph goes through.
What is a curtain?
William Golding did this job for most of his adult life.
What is teaching?
This character struggles most with balancing leadership responsibilities and fear.
Who is Ralph?
The painted faces free the boys from this.
What is shame?
Fear of this imagined threat increases chaos.
What is the beast?
William Golding received this honor from Queen Elizabeth.
What is knighthood?
This character secretly understands the true nature of the beast before the others do.
Who is Simon?
The Lord of the Flies is possibly this Old Testament demon.
What is Beelzebub?
Ralph's conflict with Jack is because he values hunting over this.
What is rescue?
William Golding apparently believed this would lead to World War III.
What is the Cold War?
This character represents cruelty without conscience, especially near the end of the novel.
Who is Roger?
The warship at the end of the novel makes this point.
That the adults are doing the same things the boys on the island were.
Simon’s death represents the triumph of this force over reason and morality.
What is savagery or mob mentality?
Lord of the Flies is partly a response to this optimistic boys' adventure novel by R.M. Ballantyne.
What is The Coral Island?