After having analysed the role of social strata in the story, and having seen how it affects the development of the The Lord of the Flies, for us, it seems clear that what William Golding is depicting in his masterpiece is a negative vision of society. We know that Golding fought in the Second World War and this fact was perhaps the trigger to the creation of this story. Golding was able to see all the horrors the humanity is able to carry out. And he put all his discontent in this story, using the young boys in the island as mirrors of our real and negative society.

For us it has been very interesting to analyse this form of criticism against society from the point of view of social strata. We have learnt more things about The Lord of the Flies, things dealing especially with criticism and allegory. We have seen during our analysis different approaches that go from the division of groups and subgroups, to the rivalry between the characters of Ralph and Jack; also from the, in our opinion, allegorical characters of Simon, Roger and Piggy to the absence of women in the whole story.

We have discovered carrying out this study that society can be controlled in many ways and by many people, especially if this people are good speakers. But we have also learnt that we have to fight against chaos. One of the best sentences that could close this paper is that what we have to do is to try to learn from our mistakes, this will guarantee a better future and a better society.

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