In the novel The Lord of the Flies ,by William Golding, Simon is often surrounded by symbolism, such as his secret place, the pig’s head on a stick, and even the character himself; His death is no different. Golding uses Simon to symbolize the good and innocence of the boys. Golding also uses Simon’s death as a very symbolic event by foreshadowing the coming moral darkness with the storm, as well as using the thunder and lightning to represent evil and danger.
In the scene before the tragedy an argument has broken out between Ralph and Jack. As this is happening the long anticipated storm finally begins to break over the island and the boys are soon in a flurry. Without shelter they seek the only safety they have, each other. As Jack …show more content…
The Rain of the storm is representative of the boys. As the rain begins the drops are described as “big drops of rain … making individual sounds as they struck”(Golding 217), showing how the boys are individual and divided but as the storm goes on the rain changes and “ the clouds opened and let down rain like a waterfall”(Golding 219). The rain changing from drops to a waterfall is similar to the boys going from individuals to one force all pushing in the same direction with nothing able to stop it.
The Storm also carries other symbols of imminent danger. Throughout the book the island is depicted as a bright and sunny place where the heat is inescapable so the storm is a monumental change from a hot sunny paradise to a dark cold place the boys need shelter from.. The weather develops with the boys’ moral states.This can be concluded from the fact that the boys start to rebel against Ralph’s leadership around the same time the storm is first mentioned in the book. During the chapter the storm is brewing over the island and this …show more content…
or Before Simon’s murder, he makes his way down from vomiting on the mountain after freeing the dead body of the parachuter, getting a bloody nose, and passing out. After waking up he is out of it and attempts to tell the boys about the parachuter, so he smears the blood, vomit, and rain on his face and stumbles down to the beach. As Simon lurches his way out of the forest Golding writes,“The beast stumbled into the horseshoe… Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill”(Golding 219). In the eyes of the boys Simon appears as a dark figure with a smeared face and unsteady movements. It is unclear whether the boys know at first whether it is Simon or the beast but Golding’s use of alternating names shows that on some level the boys knew that he was not the beast and just did not care. Later, as Simon’s dead body lies on the beach Golding uses his body to show the final transformation of the boys. As the body is carried out to sea it is bathed in luminescence; this brightness upon the body represents the good with in the boys and how it is lost with the death of Simon, carried out to sea, taken by the
In the scene before the tragedy an argument has broken out between Ralph and Jack. As this is happening the long anticipated storm finally begins to break over the island and the boys are soon in a flurry. Without shelter they seek the only safety they have, each other. As Jack …show more content…
The Rain of the storm is representative of the boys. As the rain begins the drops are described as “big drops of rain … making individual sounds as they struck”(Golding 217), showing how the boys are individual and divided but as the storm goes on the rain changes and “ the clouds opened and let down rain like a waterfall”(Golding 219). The rain changing from drops to a waterfall is similar to the boys going from individuals to one force all pushing in the same direction with nothing able to stop it.
The Storm also carries other symbols of imminent danger. Throughout the book the island is depicted as a bright and sunny place where the heat is inescapable so the storm is a monumental change from a hot sunny paradise to a dark cold place the boys need shelter from.. The weather develops with the boys’ moral states.This can be concluded from the fact that the boys start to rebel against Ralph’s leadership around the same time the storm is first mentioned in the book. During the chapter the storm is brewing over the island and this …show more content…
or Before Simon’s murder, he makes his way down from vomiting on the mountain after freeing the dead body of the parachuter, getting a bloody nose, and passing out. After waking up he is out of it and attempts to tell the boys about the parachuter, so he smears the blood, vomit, and rain on his face and stumbles down to the beach. As Simon lurches his way out of the forest Golding writes,“The beast stumbled into the horseshoe… Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill”(Golding 219). In the eyes of the boys Simon appears as a dark figure with a smeared face and unsteady movements. It is unclear whether the boys know at first whether it is Simon or the beast but Golding’s use of alternating names shows that on some level the boys knew that he was not the beast and just did not care. Later, as Simon’s dead body lies on the beach Golding uses his body to show the final transformation of the boys. As the body is carried out to sea it is bathed in luminescence; this brightness upon the body represents the good with in the boys and how it is lost with the death of Simon, carried out to sea, taken by the