Simon's Conflict

The Central concern of Lord of the flies is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within both characters. This shows in Ralph and Jacks violence when Ralph wanted to keep the fire going where as jack wanted to devote everything to hunting. This going through the entire novel of these two always having problems with how they do things compared to the other. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat!spill his blood!” This is where Golding showed the breaking point of all the boys stuck on this remote but stranded island. This was the main quote out of the novel to show Simons death. Goldings interpretation of the conflict was him as Ralph and jack as a school bully he once knew and how he survived through tough times in the war. A connection