The Lord of the Flies if taken at face value can be taken as a short book about the struggle to stay alive on a deserted island and its physical and psychological influences on its residents. However, when the reader looks deeper, they see a story that is an allegory filled with rich and detailed imagery in almost all facets of the novel. An allegory is defined as a type of writing that presents abstract …showed first 75 words of 992 total…

…showed last 75 words of 992 total…the story, William Golding uses his characters, objects, and events as symbols to get a deeper meaning to the reader. The book weaves a riveting tale of optimism against the darkest side of human immorality. Even though the novel shows that evil exists in every person, the basic human goodness still appears to triumph when all is said and done. The Lord of the Flies is genuinely a modern classic with a meaning for everyone.