Lord Of The Flies Quotes And Techniques

Theme: The theme is isolation because the whole novel is centered on a group of stranded boys on an island. The only way of getting out is by someone saving them. Later on, a naval officer saves them. This was because he saw the fire.

Point of view: The point of view is 3rd person omniscient.

Style: The style is a novel.

Tone: The tone is hopeful. The boys hope to get off the island. They have no way of getting out. Only a person can save them.

Irony:

-The group of British boys are supposed to symbolize the growth of society however, they turn into wild, bloodthirsty creatures.

-Simon learns the truth of the dead body (the pilot). He goes down the mountain, toward the boys to tell them the news however, he is killed. This shows the sense of authority is lost.

-It is ironic

His glasses symbolize the power of science and intellectual intelligence in the society.

Rhetorical Devices:

Foreshadowing: When the boulders roll off of Castle Rock and kills Piggy.

Simile: " The breezes on that lagoon had chased their tails like kittens were finding their way across the platform into the forest" (34).

Personification: Golding gives life to the fire the boys start in chapter two. The flames "stirred" and "crawled away."

Diction: "There were no shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition. The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw" (138). The Author's word choice shows taste of dying, decay, and destruction. He builds imagery as he uses very specific color,descriptive words, like "pearly" and "black blob" to create contrast and deepen the startling ugliness of the sow's head on a stick. "Pearly" suggests something wholesome and innocent, like 'pearly gates' of heaven, but Golding sharply defies the natural beauty of the jungle with the destruction caused by Jack and his hunters, the resulting "black blob of