Tension between Order and Chaos: A Study of William Golding's Lord of the Files in the Backdrop of Part WW II Era

Abstract

This research on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies unfolds how excessive

attachment leads to tension between Order and Chaos of human self. When the

established norms and values which give a solid shape to form a society. In course of

exploring the tension between two main characters, Jack and Ralph of the role

analyzed the representative figures of the post World War II people. Through those

characters, this project unveils that when objective world turns hostile, the inhabitants

relapse to their orderly world into chaos. Here, characters recourse to the emotional

retreat to the past and the tension among the friends explores the characters from

within and makes the world disorderly. The frequent use of symbols conch and fire

adds evidence to their obsession for tension between order and chaos. The post war

man has been represented through the setting of deserted island depicting socially

disorder English school children William Golding is trying to portray is that Britain

and the western world are actually quite fortunate civilizations as we have an ordered

and well structured society unlike the boys on the island. Just as the boys struggle

with the conflict between civilization and savagery on the island the outside world is

gripped in a similar conflict. In this research the Tension between Order and Chaos

after the post World War II is clearly established.