Lord of the

Flies
Projec t of Symbo ls

Haley Behm, Alejandra Benitez, Gentry

Brown, Brianna Jensen

IDEA English II
Mr. Mooney
Period 3
Symbo
ls: Jack
Ralph

Mock
Hunt
The
Island

Drawings
The Island
 Represents the “For a moment he had a fleeting
world and embodies picture of the strange glamour that
civilization and had once invested the beaches.
savagery, as well as But the island was scorched up like
good and evil. dead wood- Simon was dead- and
Jack had...He gave himself up to
 Proves the patterns them now for the first time on the
that would take island...Ralph wept for the end of
place if man were innocence, the darkness of man’s
left alone in a state heart, and the fall through the air
of nature. of the true, wise friend called
Piggy.” (Golding 202)
 Is resourceful to the
boys. “They had guessed before that this
 In the end, Ralph was an island: clambering among
realizes what has the pink rocks, with the sea on
happened during either side, and the crystal heights
of air, they had known by some
the time they have instinct that the sea lay on every
been on the side. But there seemed something
island. He more fitting in leaving the last
 Mock Hunt
 Corruption
 Savagery “The circle moved in and
round. Robert squealed in
 I.D. taking over mock terror, then in real
 Loss of innocence pain… They got his arms
and legs. Ralph, carried
 Change in power struggle
away by a sudden thick
excitement, grabbed
Eric’s spear and jabbed at
Robert with it.” (Golding
114)

“The chant rose ritually,

as at the last moment of
Ralph
 Democracy
“Ralph smiled and held
 Lawful power up the conch for silence,
 Civilized ‘listen everybody I’ve
got to have time to think
 Corrupted by things out. I can’t decide
civilization what to do straight off.”
(Golding 23)
 Idealistic
 Moral-ego “Who’s boss here? ‘I
 Fire: when kept am,’ said Ralph loudly.
(Golding 201)
up, symbolizes
Ralph’s power. “It was like that at first,
before things’- He
stopped. ‘We were
Jack~
 Anarchy “Bollocks to the rules!
 Selfishness We’re strong- we hunt! If
 Id- animalisticthere’s a beast, we’ll
hunt it down! We’ll close
 Savagery
in and beat and beat and
 Lawlessness beat- !” (Golding 91)
 Power hungry
“There was lashings of
blood, you should have
seen it!” (Golding 69)
 “They walked along,
Venn Diagram: two continents of
experience and feeling,
unable to
communicate.”
-tyranny
-order &
democracy (Golding 55)
-manipulate
“beast” for -obsessed
-main goal is power with hunting
to get off the -ego -leade
island rs
-no belief in -Id
beast
-want
contro
-when l -believes in
-right- -fea
controlling, beast
hand r
fire is large towards the
man
and endin control,
-when
-uses conch
successful fire is low
for control
 Conclusions
 

  Ralph: at the beginning of the novel, he stresses

 orderhe
Jack: and democracy.
evolves to become Butan asanimalistic
the boys on the
savage
controlled
island become by hismore
Id. Toward the beginning
interested in playing,of the
he
book
gets
Mock Jack indicates
aggravated.
Hunt: signs
off asof
startsEventually hisfirst
the behavior
his slow,
sign ofthrough his
democratic
insistence
ways
the don’t
I.D. upon
stand
taking being
over. a hunter.
a chance
It starts Asa the
against
as book once his
Jack,
playful
progresses
tyrannical he displays
power takes more
over.savage
As character
his power as he
game, then
becomes ends in real
increasingly less pain and
concerned withof being
dwindles
rescued
he
andFor
suffering.
stands
more
some
more
concerned
as a symbol
withithunting.
of the boys is their Finally
civilization
toward the and
end lack
his Id thereof.
takes over Hehimrepresents
completely the
as
-The island
firstas is where
realization the plot
of civilization has unfolded
and
ego, he possess strong morality.
he kills Simon, steals Piggy’s glasses, kills Piggy, and
throughout
morality gonethe novel, representing the world.
eventually huntswrong, and an
Ralph like they first
animal. begin
-Itto
is notice
a placetheir
where the beast
savagery can be unleashed,
compelling
versus
them.theTo attempts
the others,to like
preserve democracy,
the hunters,
civilization,
they seemand the goodness.
mock hunt as power and
-Itexcitement,
is where thewanting
ego, super-ego,
more bloodandandid can be left
alone,
moreand onlyIt’s
killing. in this isolated
important tolittle world can one
the novel
learn whichit’s
because dominates man.
an incident that happens
Works Cited~
 Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New
York: The Berkley Publishing Group,
1954.