In William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies, a group of school boys become deserted on a tropical island.

Two of the boys find a con shell and use it to gather the boys and call an assembly, where they elect a leader, organize, and establish rules.

Thus the conshell becomes a symbol of democracy, civilized society, law, and order.

Later in the story, when another boy wants to overthrow the leader and establish his own totalitarian rule,

the conch is physically destroyed, symbolizing the end of democracy, law and order.

Golding's expert use of the conch shell demonstrates how symbolism can be used to not only

represent larger ideas, but also help to advance and amplified narrative progression.

In Mad Villain's 2004 track Figaro from their classic album Mad Villaini.

M. F. Doom utilizes this dual symbolic function in the songs near 50 bar verse.

This is it make no mistakes where my nigger go.

Figaro. Figaro. Oh. that make no mistakes where my nigger go figure o'clock old speech in my rhymes attack

as we'll see by the end of this episode like the conch representing the rise and

fall of democracy the songs title Figaro will come to represent both the rise and fall of

Doom's competition in rap.

From Spotify, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

For the seventh track in our Lyrical Masters' mixtape series, we're dissecting M. Fowdoom and Mad Libs Figaro.

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