The fifth Lord of The Flies life lesson is that the beast will prosper unless the good resist it.
William Golding lived through World War Two and it inspired him to write Lord of the Flies. Of particular interest to Golding was how educated and civilized persons, the doctors and lawyers, even committed atrocities during this period.
Simon was the only boy to see the dead parachutist in the forest, while the other boys believed it was the imaginary beast.
Golding viewed our affliction, our inherent evil, as a driving force that could only be met by another force. Ralph was that good force, though he wasn’t always successful.
Ralph did however band the boys together in a search for rescue. Ironically it was Jack’s refusal to maintain Ralph’s signal fire that led them not being rescue, but Jack’s fire to smoke out Ralph from hiding that saved them by the British navy.
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