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How Golding Creates Tension in Lord of the Flies

Uploaded by marrowsmith on Oct 20, 2012

Tension in Lord of the Flies

Golding creates tension in Lord of the Flies with the ongoing power fight between Jack and Ralph. In chapter two when Ralph calls an assembly, he wants to keep order as he discusses the fire. However, as soon as he mentions it, Jack leads all of the children on an excited rampage up the mountain. “All at once the crowd swayed towards the island and were gone- following Jack.” This shows how Jack used the other children’s excitement to his advantage to undermine Ralph. Jack does this throughout the first part of the novel; trying to make himself appeal as a better chief than Ralph is, by making the others see him as fun, and seeing Ralph as boring. One time when he does this is when they are exploring Castle Rock in Chapter six. Ralph is angry because he wants to go on looking for the beast, but Jack is encouraging the others to “Roll rocks and have fun”. This difference between Jack and Ralph is the base of their hatred, and this is how Golding makes their hatred present throughout the novel. Once the reader has read the rest of the novel, they will then understand (as I did) that this wasn’t just a difference, but it was the hatred of the boys slowly starting to boil. Throughout the novel it gradually builds up, creating a lot of tension.
Another way Golding creates tension in Lord of the Flies is by using metaphors. One of these metaphors is the weather. In chapter nine, Golding creates tension by carefully placing the impending storm in the back of the reader’s minds. He contrasts the laughing and social order of the feast with the impending doom that something will happen, or the storm will break “The hunters looked uneasily at the sky”. I think Golding makes the weather symbolize the knowledge that the part will not end well, and the ‘rain’ will ruin it. As the boys start dancing and going crazy, the storm gets more fragile and, when the boys reach hysteria, the storm breaks, the boys turn into lunatics and Simon gets killed. All through this chapter, the weather allows the tension to increase until the boys just snap and, in the novel, I think this is the turning point and is when the boys turn into complete savages.
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Date:   10/20/2012

Category:   English

Length:   3 pages (631 words)

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