The Lord Of The Files Symbolism The author gives a symbol to almost every thing in The Lord of the Files and representational meaning in terms of the theme of the development of evil on the island. The boys represent different personality traits. Examples would be the bully, and the adventurer. They show the diversity in an actual society. The weird rituals, symbolize the increasing powers of evil. The conch was a very big symbol. …showed first 75 words of 248 total…

…showed last 75 words of 248 total…man's rise to power, and his inevitable fall from that power . The Lord Of The Flies symbolizes this fall in different ways. One minute it was a pig running freely around the island and then the next a prisoner, and then killed. Almost like they boys opinion, at first they had their own say in allot of matters but as time went on it seemed as though they kept quite, in fear of Jack's doings.