What dramatic irony is in chapter 6 of Lord of the Flies?

Answer 1

It is ironic that we (the readers) know that there is no beast and that it is just a dead parachutist, but the boys are convinced that this "beast" is real and out for blood.

Answer 2

William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, used irony to tell his story of a group of young British boys stranded on a deserted island. The readers can clearly spot the irony in the dialogue and Ralph, one of the main character, is also aware of the irony in his situation. The irony in the novel forces the readers to step aside and think about the hidden meanings the author is trying to express.

The first example of irony occurred in chapter two. Jack says to the group of young, impressionable boys that "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages."(Golding 32)However, in the following chapters Jack is the leader of the tribe and encourages the boys to forget civilization and act upon their primitive instincts. They ignore the laws that they all have agreed to follow while on the island and commit heinous crimes against humanity, such as torture against both humans and animals, and murder. They no longer act like English schoolboys who are the best at everything, but like savages.

Relatively early on in the novel Ralph comes to terms with his situation. He realizes that much of one's life is spent just keeping out of danger and staying alive. After understanding the complex, yet realistic, view of life he remembers his first impression of the island and how he thought they would have fun on the island, like living in one of his books. Now he realized what life on the island would really be like.

There is irony in Piggy' s name. The boys hunt, kill and eat pigs on the island. Not only do they kill the pigs, they enjoy it tremendously. Piggy' s name suggests that he will be a victim of the beast. Not the beast the boys on the island fear, but the beast within each of them. The author is saying through Piggy that because they kill and eat the pigs they become the beast.

Ralph prays to the adult world to send them something grownup, a sign or something. His prayer is answered by a dead parachuter, a casualty of war from the fighting going on in civilized society. The dead man is powerless to help the boys. He actually causes more problems. He is mistaken for the beast and causes more fear in the boys and drives them closer to becoming savages.

Piggy often says that they act like "a crowd of kids". He says to Ralph that "grownups know things. They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right". This is perhaps the best example of irony in the novel. It is because the adults could not get together and discuss their problems that they were stranded on the island in the first place. If they had been able to meet and discuss they boys would have never fleed their school and would have never been shot down, therefore avoiding ever being on the island.

William Golding used irony in Lord of the Flies as a way to make the readers step back and think about what he wrote. If he had not wrote the story with ironic twists and hidden meanings many people would miss the meaning of the book. The readers would be able to finish the novel without thinking about the issues that you are meant to ponder after reading Lord of the Flies, such as evil, spirituality, society, man versus the unknown, man versus himself and many other important themes in the book.

Answer 3

The ending is ironic because Ralph who is about to die should be happy when he sees the naval officer, instead he begins to cry. it is also ironic that the naval officer is shocked that these British boys lost all respect to civilization where he himself is part of the military and is involved in the war that is taking place so where is order there??

Answer 4

It is ironic that Ralph, who is being persued by a mob of boys who wish to kill him amidst the destruction they have caused to the island, is recued by an officer of the Royal Navy. An officer who is part of the armed forces of Raph's own country. A officer who has presumably been invloved in the very war, a cause of death and destruction, which led to the boys being evacuated and becoming stranded on the island in the first place. When Ralph is running out of the jungle for his life, he is almost running straight out of Hell. When the Naval Officer rescues the boys, they are taken aboard a Navy ship, only to be led into another war, or another living Hell. We don't know what happens to the boys, whether they survived the dangerous journey home, or not. So the irony is that the boys were not nesscarily rescued, but just brought into another war.

Answer 5

Jack didn't care about a rescue fire, which is all that Ralph ever wanted, but Jack set fire to the island, which turned out to be the rescue fire that saved them.

Answer 6

Jack was trying to kill Ralph and to do so he set part of the woods on fire which caused enough smoke so a ship with people saw it and came to the island.

Answer 7

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