The Lord of the Flies: Good vs. Evil The constant struggle for survival of the young boys in The Lord of the Flies ultimately results in innocence transforming into savagery. There is an on going battle between good and evil which has always been the focus of William Golding’s works. “Stung by what he considers an unreal view of life, the novelist is too magnanimous to stop at exposing the faults of another, but …showed first 75 words of 320 total…

…showed last 75 words of 320 total…Mr. Golding’s art depends also upon the show--the shown significance of the ‘grunt’ (which ‘means’ more than the author’s clever sneer), the smashed conch and split brains.... The alert pupil is expected to register through those carefully presented symbols the ultimate fragility of the boys’ tenuous grasp on sense, order and legitimate behaviour. That the falling Piggy, representative of intelligence and the rule of law, is an unsatisfactory symbol of fallen man” (Capey 177).