One of the most important aspects of human nature that the Lord of the Flies, a sow’s head, illustrates is that evil is within everyone and that it is everlasting. In the beginning of the novel, Ralph says, ‘“We can’t have everybody talking at …show more content…
Robert even ‘“stabilized the thing [the sow] in a phrase that was received uproariously. ‘Right up her ass!”’ (135). This violent and unnecessary action shows that evil is present in even the most innocent and civilized people. Also, when Ralph calls for a meeting to discuss about the beast, Simon says, “‘Maybe it’s [the beast] only us [the boys]?’” (89), which also shows that evil is within the boys who were once very innocent and civilized. After the Lord of the Flies is created, Simon stumbles upon it. While Simon is talking to the sow’s head, it says to him, “‘Fancy thinking that the beast was something you could hunt and kill!’” (144). This comment illustrates that the beast (the evil inside the boys) cannot be destroyed. Symbolically speaking, the Lord of the Flies is saying that the evil in a person is everlasting. Several days after Simon’s encounter with the sow’s head, Ralph discovers it. When Ralph finds it, he “nearly flung himself behind a tree … but then he saw the white face was bone and that the pig’s skull