After the murder of Simon‚ a storm erupts. The storm symbolizes the chaos and anarchy that have taken over everything on the island and the catastrophe of the murder. During Simon’s meeting with the Lord of the Flies‚ the Lord of the Flies promises that he would have “fun” with Simon. However‚ Simon realizes that the beast is actually within everyone and that he needs and has to confront the beast in everyone. Simon and Jesus Christ share similar properties‚ as they were both killed for the truth
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Coincidence In the book the Lord Of The Flies‚ by William Golding‚ the book demonstrates how the young boys are being transformed from being nice and civilized to mean and savages. Simon on the other hand who is distant from the other boys has a relationship with nature. He goes off to the forest and thinks. He wants to know the truth about the island. He is very in touch with nature to the point where he starts to hallucinate with the “lord of the flies”. Simon tells Ralph that he will make it
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In “Lord of the Flies” William Golding portrays many biblical examples through various characters. One character is named Simon which portrays Jesus and another character is named Roger which portrays the devil. One example that I think Simon acts like Jesus is when Simon‚ was sitting between the twins and Piggy‚ he wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy‚ who grabbed it (Golding 74). This shows that Simon gave his food to Piggy who was not able to have any and I related
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In comparison‚ there are three characters who appear to remain mostly civilized‚ the first of these boys being Simon. In the novel‚ Simon is portrayed as a religious figure. Besides his significant name along the lines of Simon Peter from the bible‚ he also acts as a Christ-like structure. The bible states that the Messiah‚ or Jesus‚ would be like God. This means that he is perfect and without sin or flaw. From the story‚ Simon depicts this figure by defending and protecting the schoolboys‚ much
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Golding’s Lord of the Flies is about a time during war‚ when a plane crashes and a group of boys are alone‚ unsupervised‚ on a deserted island. On this island they have to fend for themselves‚ they have to find a way of survival. As Golding takes us through the sequence of the story‚ he uses many situations‚ items‚ and many of the characters as symbols of worldly things. Before War World II Europe and Germany didn’t have the best relations‚ but they got along‚ that was until Hitler invaded Poland
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Lord of the Flies is a novel about British schoolboys stranded on an island by a plane crash. In the book some of the boys turn into savages‚ but some of them don’t. Jack and Simon are very different characters‚ but they may have more in common one might think. Although Jack turns to a savage in the middle of the book‚ he doesn’t start out that way. Simon‚ on the other hand‚ never turns into a savage‚ but he does go a little crazy. They both start out the same‚ but they both change. Simon is a nice
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The movie‚ “Lord of the Flies”‚ portrays how man is naturally good‚ but can be persuaded in negative ways by someone bad. Jack’s cold‚ brutish behavior largely impacted all the others. From the beginning of the movie‚ Jack’s insensitive actions foreshadowed his behavior for the rest of the movie‚ such as when Simon fainted‚ and Jack said that he is fine and acted like it didn’t matter. Throughout the film‚ the other boys on the island were consistently being influenced by Jack’s uncompassionate characteristics
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apart. When the person or thing that keeps things in order is destroyed and then chaos and war is brought. When Simon was introduced‚ the power of his findings and logic went unnoticed. He was then killed‚ and the peace he kept was depleted. Simon was an underrated character who should’ve been listened to because he had been affected highly by what was going on around and inside of him. Simon had become a peacekeeper while helping Ralph sort out the ways the boys would survive while on the shore of
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(Google Images). In William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies” the reader mainly is subjected to one character being the leader‚ but was that the right person to be the leader? The reader can see in the novel that Simon would be a better leader because of his sensitivity‚ care for others‚ and his selflessness. The first reason why Simon would make a good leader is because of his sensitivity in the novel. The reader can see his sensitivity when‚ “Simon found for them [littluns] the fruit they could
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The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about a group of English boys who got into a plane crash and are now left to survive on their own on an uninhabited tropical island. The novel shows us that there is a line between civilization and savagery. During the story the main character‚ Ralph‚ becomes the leader of the group and tries to maintain civilization and the group’s chances of survival. With Ralph elected as leader‚ the antagonist of the novel‚ Jack becomes enraged. Jack engages
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