"I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference" The narrator in this poem could be described as Ralph, who took the high road, with Simon and Piggy. The last two lines, basically the last stanza, talk about how less children chose the better path, with Ralph, and most chose the path of savagery with Jack. However, if they so choose, they could discard their morals, just like Ralph did, and get caught up in the bloodthirst, seen in the novel when Ralph helps kill Simon. This too is true for the boys, who even though they could of crossed from a passive path to the line of savagery, they probably never will because that is against their strong morals. The hiker marks the other path as one that he could come back to, even thought it is doubtful that he will. But as they select their fates, they turn out to be two very different things. At the beginning of the novel, the boys are all at the fork of the road, not even realising that the two paths that lie ahead or both very different. This is also true in 'Lord of the Flies'. In the poem, the narrator says that their road is "just as fair", meaning that they believe that the two roads are basically the same. The ones that went down the path of savagery seemed as if they could not redeem themselves, and as they got further down the road, these instincts gained more control over the boys. "And sorry I could not travel both" This quote from the poem shows that the group of boys had to pick one or another, and in no way could travel both. In the poem, the two diverged roads are these two paths, those who decide to let their savage instincts take over, and those that contain them. This quote from the first line of the poem, which shows an idea from the novel, the two groups, the savages and the pasificts. Throughout the novel, the subject of decision making is an important one, and while some of the boys make the wrong decision, there are a few that choose the right road. There are many comparisons between 'Lord of the Flies' and 'The Road not Taken'.
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