How The Environment Is Symbolically Reflected In The Ethical Nature of the Characters In "Lord of the Flies"

In Lord of the Flies Golding uses symbolism to tell us that environment, actual of perceived, controls behavior. The white conch is symbolic of government structure and power. The Lord of the Flies represents the evil in human nature and the characters reveal the way they either are controlled by or control the beast. Golding states that his theme is "Society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable"(204). The environment of the island on which the characters are morooned reflects symbolically the e…