عنوان المقال عربي
رواية سيد الذباب لجولدينج باعتبارها رواية رمزية
Abstract
Golding's Lord of the Flies is full of symbolism. Every object or character in this novel has a symbolic meaning. Golding uses symbolism to send his message regarding his main themes in this novel like savagery and violence through recognizable symbolic characters such as Ralph, piggy, Jack and other boys in the island. The author employs many characters in the novel to have a notable symbolic meaning, symbolism within objects like the conch shell, the glasses, the fire, shelters and rocks. Symbolism within animals like a pig; The main purpose of this article is to find out the symbolism in this literary work, and to show what it stands for within the characters, inanimate things, animals and the title Lord of the Flies. The title of this novel is a Hebrew name for the chief of demons or literally the Lord of the Flies is a name sometimes used as an alternative phrase for the word “Satan”, Golding employs it in the novel as a symbolic indication of the struggle for power in situations of chaos and turmoil, it also represents the physical manifestation of the evil that appeared to the boys, and it is the evil that Golding believes is present in each of us.
Keywords
Ralph, the pig and the fire. Iraq
Recommended Citation
Jabbar, Mushtaq Awad; Marzah, Omar R.; and Abed, Ali Hasan
(2025)
"Golding’s Lord of the Flies as a symbolic novel,"
Uruk for Humanities: Vol. 16:
Iss.
4, Article 53.
Available at:
https://muthuruk.mu.edu.iq/journal/vol16/iss4/53
