Lord Of The Flies Reflection

). Simon is the most kind hearted character created by William Golding in the novel Lord of the flies. “The subject matter of anything is life”(Graves 899). Simon is the only one to have the conversation with the Lord of the Flies. Regardless of the fact he knows it’s not real, more of a vision but an important one. “There isn 't anyone to help you. Only me. And I 'm the beast. Simons mouth labored, brought forth audible words. Pigs head on a stick. Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill! Said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. You knew, didn 't you? I 'm part of you? Close, close, close! I 'm the reason why it 's no go? Why things …show more content…
Even on an island stranded with not one adult insight, (besides the dead parachute) and the thought of them still rules over the boys. That is why they are all so intoxicated with power and freedom. Not one Adult telling them to be silent. Just children trying to be adults. Adults they have been watching and learning from since they were born. The adults that started the second largest war in our history. Without realization Adults have been corrupted their children with power lust and savagery in a so called civilized world. “I 'm Warning you. I 'm going to get angry. D 'you see? You 're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don 't try it on my poor misguided boy, or else-” Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.”-Or else,” said the Lord of the Flies , “We shall do you? See? Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph. Do you. See? Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness”(Golding 144). The Lord of the Flies monologue had revealed the beast to Simon, and only Simon. This was thought by Simon to be a vision, something caused by perhaps something inedible he had eaten or by the heat he was stuck in, for talking pigs do not exist …show more content…
By nature. The beast was amongst them the entire time they had been alive, it was only illuminated when they had become desperate for survival and had been separated from the grownups. Monstrosity surrounding them and quickly overtaking their spirits entirely until all the boys thoughts had been composed with the need for meat, power, and blood. “We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves” (Levy 84). Uncontrollable evil lurks within us all, something we can not help, the ones that define what is wrong and what is write in a modern day civilization are the ones like Ralph, but Ralph’s civilized self and way of think had soon disappeared and was almost completely lost. If people claim that everyone is born with good then it is clear that we are also born with the same amount of evil, it just seems to be harder to tap into it especially if the society that one lives in unless it has been passed down through the generations. “A child dammed by satanic mischance, evil in the womb of the lustful couplings of two generations that passed the seed of carnal destruction to the still mercifully unborn”(Levy 1). The novel “The Beast Within” is a powerful source of human horror and darkness that dwells inside, Levy has many similar thoughts to Golding 's Lord of the Flies and provided evidence of how the circumstances in our lives reveal our true nature and true desired from this world and the