The Conch In Lord Of The Flies

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The Conch- In the novel, the conch symbolizes order and civilization. The conch can be interpreted as a symbol of order because Ralph makes a rule after he becomes chief that only the person with the conch can talk. Without the conch, the boys would not be able to have such organized meetings and chaos would occur. As the book continues, the conch starts to have less power over the boys because they become less civilized. The Scar- The scar has many important meanings in Lord of the Flies. The author describes the scar in its setting by telling the reader that, “Beyond the falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea” (29). The scar shows how man can destroy a perfect piece of…show more content…
That's all well and good, until the first signal fire the boys light begins burning out of control, and at least one boy is missing. As Piggy tells Jack, "You got your small fire all right" (44). The fire thus becomes a symbol, paradoxically, of both hope of rescue and of destruction. The Beast- At first, the beast is nothing more than a product of the boys' imaginations. The smaller boys are afraid of things they see at night; rather than be blindly afraid of The Great Unknown, they give their fear a name and a shape in their minds. And now we start getting some real insight into the beast. Piggy basically says the beast is just fear of the unknown. When the twins list off the horrible attributes of the creature they saw, they reveal that it has both "teeth" and "eyes"; Ralph and Jack see it as a giant ape. So the "beast" is a man-who-isn't, the animal side in all of us. Towards the end of the book, Simon finds out that the “beastie” isn’t an animal but a dead parachutist and his parachute on the top of to mountain.

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