Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding does a wonderful job at portraying many different roles of irony. The reader of this classic novel is able to understand how these proper British boys are affected to turn into young savages all due to the beast within themselves. Within this novel, Golding placed many hidden messages and expresses many events that have deeper meanings as the story progresses. A prime example of irony is portrayed when Jack says, “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.”(Golding, 32) This acts as irony because as you read on, Jack becomes a leader of his own tribe and his tribe ends up becoming a group of savages forgetting everything that contributes to a civilized society. Jack leads them to follow only his rules and forgets the laws that had been put into place by Ralph (or the community in which they lived before being stranded on this deserted island.