Ever wanted to know what it would be like to get stuck on an uninhabited island with only people around your age and no adults. The scholarly article “The Meaning of the Beast”by James R. Baker analyzed the novel lord of the flies by William Golding. Two of the many topics that Baker discussed are that the beast was apart of all the boys and that simon is a saint. In the article Baker states that “an image of the hunters’ own nature-the apprentice bacchantes suddenly run away; but simon’s gaze is ‘held by that ancient, inescapable recognition’- an incarnation of the beast or devil born again and again out of the human heart”(Baker 80). This is saying that there is evil and savagery in every human's’ nature which is true and is represented
