Lord of The Flies written by William Golding is considered a very important book in the canon of world literature. The reason behind this is because it portrays the idea that every man has the capacity to be evil and that evil is only suppressed by the rules of society and once there are no rules, the evil comes free and people become savages and can turn on their fellow friends. There are three characteristics of the book that describes the inner savage of the stranded children. Which are traits such as killing a close friend unintentionally because of the heat of the moment, denying guilt of a murder and the symbolism used by the author. All these factors in the book demonstrate the loss of innocence and the overtaking of evil in the
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Before, the children started to kill Simon, they were acting out the killing of the sow, while the children scream “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood (p.152)” the atmosphere of the place was filled with “desire, thick, urgent, blind(p.152)”. This clearly shows that the boy’s mind is currently eager and focused on killing the beast. Unluckily, in this moment, Simon is coming back from seeing the beast, which he realizes that it only was a dead parachuter hanging on the trees, he is exhausted and starts to crawl towards them. Therefore, as the boys are eager to kill, when one of the littleun screams “Him, him!(p.152)” indicating that the beast is Simon, the boys were so into the heat of the moment and kills Simon in cold blood, without even noticing that it’s him. “The sticks fells and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed (p.152)” how the author mentions the killing of Simon, demonstrates the inner evil that is slowly being revealed in the boys as he describes the killing as such a cold blooded …show more content…
When Ralph mentions to Piggy that the death of Simon “was murder (p. 156)” Piggy decides to deny it by telling Ralph to stop talking and by blaming it on fear “It was dark. There was that-that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared! (p.156)”. This dialogue unveiled that some boys are actually able to notice the change occurring inside them but just do not decide to face it. It is quite like living upon the mask of child assuming that they are innocent, nevertheless they really aren’t. Therefore, the denial of guilt caused by murder, shows how the boys became savages over time as the rules were destroyed.
Golding’s way of showing the ascending evil in the boys is also evident in his symbolism in the story. The forest glade that Simon visits when in chapter 3 is almost represented as a place of natural beauty and childhood “Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in hot air”. But when Simon later on the novel, returns to the forest glade again, he finds a sow's head impaled in the middle of the glade as an offering to the beast. The disturbance of peace in the forest glade represents the loss of childhood innocence and the revelation of the inner savages of the
Before, the children started to kill Simon, they were acting out the killing of the sow, while the children scream “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood (p.152)” the atmosphere of the place was filled with “desire, thick, urgent, blind(p.152)”. This clearly shows that the boy’s mind is currently eager and focused on killing the beast. Unluckily, in this moment, Simon is coming back from seeing the beast, which he realizes that it only was a dead parachuter hanging on the trees, he is exhausted and starts to crawl towards them. Therefore, as the boys are eager to kill, when one of the littleun screams “Him, him!(p.152)” indicating that the beast is Simon, the boys were so into the heat of the moment and kills Simon in cold blood, without even noticing that it’s him. “The sticks fells and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed (p.152)” how the author mentions the killing of Simon, demonstrates the inner evil that is slowly being revealed in the boys as he describes the killing as such a cold blooded …show more content…
When Ralph mentions to Piggy that the death of Simon “was murder (p. 156)” Piggy decides to deny it by telling Ralph to stop talking and by blaming it on fear “It was dark. There was that-that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared! (p.156)”. This dialogue unveiled that some boys are actually able to notice the change occurring inside them but just do not decide to face it. It is quite like living upon the mask of child assuming that they are innocent, nevertheless they really aren’t. Therefore, the denial of guilt caused by murder, shows how the boys became savages over time as the rules were destroyed.
Golding’s way of showing the ascending evil in the boys is also evident in his symbolism in the story. The forest glade that Simon visits when in chapter 3 is almost represented as a place of natural beauty and childhood “Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in hot air”. But when Simon later on the novel, returns to the forest glade again, he finds a sow's head impaled in the middle of the glade as an offering to the beast. The disturbance of peace in the forest glade represents the loss of childhood innocence and the revelation of the inner savages of the