Allusions In Lord Of The Flies

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Object: Simon
Setting: Coming down from the mountain (parallel to jesus coming down from heaven)
Theme: Innocence, purity, mortality, and truth are destroyed at the hands of savagery and evil.

In the allegory Lord of the Flies, author William Golding employs a pure and innocent young boy, Simon, as an allusion and symbol of Jesus Christ to substantially convey the message that innocence, mortality, and truth are devoured at the hands of humankind’s innate savagery and evil. Freed from the constraints of society and civilization, the boys relish in their freedom in the isolated tropical island and eventually descend into instinctual madness and sin, the lines between democracy and anarchy blurring. Determined to save his friends,

Freed from the constraints of society and civilization, the boys relish in their freedom in the isolated tropical island and eventually descend into instinctual madness and sin, the lines between democracy and anarchy blurring. In Ralph’s midst of yearning for a sign from the outside world, that night, a dead airman falls and sways onto the top of the mountain, alluding to World War II. Flapping back and forth, the parachute man conjures up a powerful image of defeat, death, and decay to the boys, the visualization of the lingering fear and evil within man’s heart. While law and order of the adult world is waning, the boys become fearful of the unknown, as the Beast prospers control over Jack and his hunters, and childish conflict erupts between Ralph and Jack. Parallel to the conflict amongst the boys between civilization and savagery, the dead parachutist symbolizes the end of adult supervision of the boys on the island and reminds us of the raging conflict in the larger, adult