Essay On Simon Lord Of The Flies

Golding establishes Simon’s presence as a religious and spiritual figure early on in the novel not only by his continuous journeys to places of meditation.but also in how the other characters perceive him to be.Simon is physically frail (as shown in his fainting spells) deeply spiritual, compassionate, non-violent, and in harmony with the natural world (like many religious figures tend to be). Being one of the older boys, he garners respect from the littluns and helps them with activities like picking fruits. One quote that really stood out is how Ralph described Simon when he first got a good look at him. His eyes especially stood out to Ralph. stating that they “were so bright they had deceived him into thinking him delightfully gay and wicked” (Golding 55). Just like Piggy’s glasses which is symbolic for intellectuality and Jack’s

In Document E, Simon finds an airman that had crash landed and was “rotting and fly-blown”. Simon then has an epiphany. What if the beast isn’t fear or war, but something a little more complicated. Maybe the beast is savagery of humans. Savagery meaning an uncivilized or inhuman state or condition. Then, in Document F, Simon again comes to question what the beast really is. It states that Simon hesitantly says that “maybe the beast is us”. Meaning him and the other boys living on the island. When reading down further in Document F, there is a chant. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” What could these boys possibly be chanting this about? Continuing on in the document, the thing that they are chanting this about is a human. “The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on a hill.” A body on a hill? Who could this be? Obviously, it has to be Simon. There was nobody else that knew about the deceased body that was found on the hill. Now it all comes into focus. The beast is proven here to be the savagery of

When the Lord of the Flies said to Simon, “fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!” (Golding. pg.158), it showed that even if Simon did not know it, he subconsciously understood that the beast was not real, but something within all of them. This also shows that no matter how hard the boys try to stay good, the evil within them is something they cannot get rid of. Additionally, the end of the conversation Simon had with the Lord of the Flies also represents evil. At the end of the conversation, when Simon, “fell down and lost consciousness,” (Golding. Pg. 158), helps the readers know that the conversation is not real. Simon fainting after the conversation also showed that instead of talking to the Lord of the Flies, or the beast, he was thinking to himself about the evil on the island and realized it was within the boys. Similarly, this also shows the fact that he subconsciously knew of the evil within the boys. Finally, Simon 's hallucination represents the realization he had of the evil within the

The “beast,” an entity we know little about. What is it, exactly? What does it represent? During World War 2, a plane transporting English schoolboys was struck down over an unnamed island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The children became stranded, frightened, and paranoid. They then begin to put together a picture of this “beast” which plaugues them. In Lord of the Flies, again, what is the “beast”? Ultimately, the meaning of this monster is not definite, but ever-changing. The “beast” can symbolize a variety of ideas.

In the book The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Simon would be the best leader. There aren’t an immense amount of qualities in Simon that some might see as leader material. He’s different compared to the others, though all the boys are unique in their own little way, he stands out the most. Maybe it’s because of his independent like personality or the fact that he is rational and uses logic before he lets his imagination get the best of him.

The people before us, the natives to our land were ‘savage’. The people before us wore war paint, they hunted and killed, they even had human sacrifices. They had leaders, the ones who were the chief of the tribes or clans. So what makes the young boy’s so different from our natives? In lord of the flies by William Golding there were boys who came from a very ‘domesticated’ lifestyle. The boys in the book lord of the flies came from a life in Britain. They came from having tea time to being trapped on an island with no parents to exert authority. The ‘savagery’ is not ‘savagery’ at all, it is simply just them losing the innocence that they once had. Yet this ‘loss of innocence’ In The Lord of The Flies is represented by not just foreshadowing but by

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding the beast an idea that one little boys created as a fear leads the boys to chaos and destruction. These boys who were once peaceful turn into savages who murder and torture their own. In the Lord of The flies the beast is more than it seems, the beast shows the violence hatred and evil in humans and alone on the island the boys not stranded by society rules turn to inner hatred within.

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding is a novel that tells the story of a group of young boys whose plane crashes on a deserted island with no adults or other human beings. They learn how to survive and set up a system that they stick to for a long amount of time. They all vote that Ralph becomes the head chief of all of them. Throughout the book, most of the boys, except for Simon, develop a fear towards the beast that they think lives on the island. Lord of the Flies demonstrates that fear controls peoples actions.

Children throughout their lives grow up with guidance and structure from elders or parents. Without a way of life to follow, kids would not grow up self sustainable especially considering how dependant children are while being raised. In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of kids are stuck on an island with no adults and need to fend for themselves. Civilization was absent on the island but the young boys found an interesting way of life that led to preposterous acts of insanity. Although the boys showed great signs of bravery and intelligence, their were many symbols that showed great significance of the boys accommodating to independant survival. Yet amongst these strengths the darkness overcame them all. The primary symbols

Non conformity by definition is failure or refusal to conform to a prevailing rule or practice. When in large groups everyone responds to the group differently. Typically the best people in society don’t conform with the majority easily. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Simon does not conform to the group of boys on the island. Similarly to Simon, Juror 8 in “Twelve Angry Men” doesn’t conform to the group. Simon and Juror 8 are similar because they both took a risk by not conforming to the rest of the group and aren't easily swayed one way. They are similar because they have the ability to stand up for what they thought regardless of what the other think. Juror 8 and Simon don’t give in easy and they do what they think is right despite

Simon is the only boy who doesn't appear to be afraid of the forest. It might be because he knows that he's safer alone than with the other boys. This quote represents fear, because it shows Simon doesn’t mind being alone in the forest, while the rest other boys are

Like Jesus, Simon’s also may have been a part of the sacrifice that he made for the rest of the boys at the end of the book, maintain humanity on the island and be rescued home. A Christ figure, like any other deity, often are depicted as very compassionate and prophetic- traits that makes us look up upon. Simon was always supportive of Piggy, helping retrieve his glasses and his willingness to listen. He is also very wary of his surroundings, the first of all to foresee that there is no beast but the boys unruly drive of fear. [“Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity—a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon

Groupthink is the influence of a decision upon a group. Throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding Portrays the idea of “groupthink” in the story. Groupthink can be seen as a bad or a good example. In this novel, it is used as a bad example because of how the kids on the island assemble their decisions. It is clear that groupthink negatively affects the children in this book and it is seen through the conch used as the voice of assembly, the kids on the island thinking the beast is real, and the traditional dance the kids do on the island.

Throughout the novel of Lord of the Flies, William Golding provides a profound insight into human nature. Golding builds on a message that all human beings have natural evil inside them. To emphasize, the innate evil is revealed when there’s lack of civilization. The boys are constantly faced with numerous fears and eventually break up into two different groups. Although the boys believe the beast lives in the jungle, Golding makes it clear that it lurks in their hearts. The message of inner evil is portrayed throughout the book by the destruction of the conch, terrifying beast, and character developments to establish the hidden message throughout the novel.

At the beginning of the story the boys are very scared and confused on where they are because this place is a unknown entity they have no clue what could be on the island and how they are going to survive. This is symbolism of human instinct, because when people encounter unknown experiences they start to freak out and make irrational decisions on easy problems with simple solutions. This occurs most in Jack because he wants to be the leader of the group of boys but when Ralph gets leader he tries to sabotage it in different ways by creating more fear and promoting protection of the group from “The beast”. “If you’re hunting sometimes… you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but being hunted”. While Simon is still scared he is not making irrational decisions, he is trying to figure out how to survive and follow orders and creating shelters and fire. This is a foil to Jack because Simon is trying to maintain order, while Jack tries to cause