Every child dreams of exploring a deserted island, yet William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explores the dark reality of such an event. After a plane crash, the only passengers to survive are a group of young British school boys. They wash up on the deserted island with no grownups in sight. Throughout the novel, Golding uses symbolic characters to utilize Societal structure. Firstly, Golding expresses a range of evil and savagery acts that led Jack to represent the Devil. Secondly, throughout the story Ralph demonstrates multiple different ideas that lead him to represent leadership. Lastly, Golding puts Simon in many different scenarios where he is symbolized as Jesus Christ. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
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Simon does numerous physical and mental things to result in him to represent Christ. Firstly, Simon demonstrates the story of Adam and Eve from the bible. In the biblical story, Simon represents God, the Littluns represent Adam and Eve and Jack represents the snake. Throughout the story Simon gets fruit for the Littluns. As Jack starts murdering pigs and offering it to the Littluns, the good on the island starts to fade away. This is critical because just like Adam and Eve the Littluns get carried away and eat the meat that represents the poison apple. Simon is always putting others before himself. “Found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands”(Golding pg. ). Secondly, Simon always cares for all the boys and always brings them together. He starts off getting fruit for the Littluns because the other Bigguns did not show any empathy towards them. Next, as Jack knocks off Piggy’s glasses, he quickly goes over to get them for him. He is the one to get the glasses because he is always seeing the truth. Simon even gives Piggy his meat because Jack did not give him any. This is significant because in the bible, one of Jesus’ miracles was creating food from two fish and five loaves to feed over 5,000 people before he ate. Simon tries to preach to the boys about how the Beastie is not real, but just like Jesus, they did not believe that what he is saying is actually the truth. Simon is the one who keeps human advancement going in the middle of Ralph and Jack, which is the fight between good and evil. Both Simon and Jesus are killed by their societies. Once Simon is killed that when every starts to go sour and civilization starts to crash. The way Simon is killed by the spears is much like the way Jesus died. Lastly, even when Simon is dead, he washes out to sea, he is joined by
Simon does numerous physical and mental things to result in him to represent Christ. Firstly, Simon demonstrates the story of Adam and Eve from the bible. In the biblical story, Simon represents God, the Littluns represent Adam and Eve and Jack represents the snake. Throughout the story Simon gets fruit for the Littluns. As Jack starts murdering pigs and offering it to the Littluns, the good on the island starts to fade away. This is critical because just like Adam and Eve the Littluns get carried away and eat the meat that represents the poison apple. Simon is always putting others before himself. “Found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands”(Golding pg. ). Secondly, Simon always cares for all the boys and always brings them together. He starts off getting fruit for the Littluns because the other Bigguns did not show any empathy towards them. Next, as Jack knocks off Piggy’s glasses, he quickly goes over to get them for him. He is the one to get the glasses because he is always seeing the truth. Simon even gives Piggy his meat because Jack did not give him any. This is significant because in the bible, one of Jesus’ miracles was creating food from two fish and five loaves to feed over 5,000 people before he ate. Simon tries to preach to the boys about how the Beastie is not real, but just like Jesus, they did not believe that what he is saying is actually the truth. Simon is the one who keeps human advancement going in the middle of Ralph and Jack, which is the fight between good and evil. Both Simon and Jesus are killed by their societies. Once Simon is killed that when every starts to go sour and civilization starts to crash. The way Simon is killed by the spears is much like the way Jesus died. Lastly, even when Simon is dead, he washes out to sea, he is joined by