On The Artistic Techniques Of Expression In Lord Of The Flies Which Help To Reveal The Evil Of Human Nature

William Golding is a celebrated English artist in 20^th century. He had produced a lot of great works in his life among which Lord of the flies was the most famous one and because of it he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.Lord of the Flies got great reputation after it was published, and had been printed many times. For quite a long time, it was a book that everyone needed to read in college .For one thing, it was because William Golding showed his deep thoughts of human nature in this book ,and created a world which was similar to the society in that time. Two world wars hurt people badly both in matter and heart and so the self-examination of human nature and civilization became the key subject of many artists. All through Golding's life , he had been thinking about the problem of human nature and the theme of his novels was to reveal the evil of human nature. To take the human nature for the origin of evil was quite different from to take society and system for that. For another it was because of the abundant techniques in art that Golding had used in his books. The book was not only profound in thoughtfulness but also great in art so that people tried to interpret its art from various aspects for decades. Those techniques of art played an important part in the reveal of evil in human nature.This thesis analyzes the art of symbol at first. The art of symbol gives Lord of the Flies universal meaning even up to the development of human history and makes it not limited to a little island only in the novel. Meanwhile it builds a world that connects with all aspects of society.Secondly, the thesis analyzes the art of contrast. Lord of the flies is full of all kinds of contrasts and therefore we can find the evil in children's hearts revealed step by step.Thirdly, the thesis analyzes the art of irony . In Lord of the Flies there are some plots which seem conflict to each other and the ironic plots help us to find the evil of human nature better.At last ,William Golding is a great master of language. He did an elaborate job in language in order that it could serve the theme. The thesis analyzes Golding's art of language from language of character, language of narration, language of description and so on. Those languages make the novel almost as real as true life.