1. Literary Elements Notes
Lord of the Flies
Literary Elements Notes

2. Setting Deserted, tropical island No adults Fictional nuclear war
Jungle
Lagoon
Beach
Mountain
No adults
Fictional nuclear war

3. Characters Major: Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Simon Minor:
Roger, Maurice, Samneric, “the littluns”

4. Conflict in LOTF Ralph vs. Jack Boys vs. Beastie Boys vs. Nature
Boys vs. Piggy
Boys vs. Themselves
Jack vs. Society

5. Other Issues in LOTF Need for civilization and order Loss of Identity
Human Nature

6. Themes
*Remember- theme is a statement, so we will be looking at these words as starting points to make a statement.
Lord of the Flies has more than one "theme," or meaning, but the overall and most important one is that the conditions of life within society are closely related to the moral integrity of its individual members. In Golding's own words:
“The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable. The whole book is symbolic in nature except the rescue in the end where adult life appears, dignified and capable, but in reality enmeshed in the same evil as the symbolic life of the children on the island. The officer, having interrupted a man-hunt, prepares to take the children off the island in a cruiser which will presently be hunting its enemy in the same implacable way. And who will rescue the adult and his cruiser?”

7. Themes
*Remember- theme is a statement, so we will be looking at these words as starting points to make a statement.
Power
Leadership
Fear of the Unknown
Blindness and Sight
Defects of Human Nature
Survival

8. What do you think these represent?
Symbols
What do you think these represent?
Conch
Piggy’s glasses
Fire
Pig/Lord of the Flies

9. People can also be symbols… what about these characters?
Ralph
Piggy
Simon
Jack
Roger

10. Don’t forget to look at your literary elements…