The glasses are also used to create fire and, for a while, become the most powerful object on the island. Once Jack and his tribe steal Piggy's glasses that power falls into the wrong hands and ...

BRITISH author William Golding's 1954 debut novel "Lord of the Flies" was one of the first school-mandated books I genuinely ...

Fire symbolises both hope and destruction ... This fear is reflected in Lord of the Flies as the fictional world is at war, which explains why the boys’ plane was shot down.