Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis

Simon is the Christ-like figure of the story and best represents purity and goodness. All through the book Golding reiterates the idea of a beastie, and turns out the beast is inside everyone. This illustrates the evil of human nature, but the death of Christ saves everyone from the beast inside. ‘“You’ll get back to where you came from…. You’ll get back all right. I think so, anyway’” (111). This one little quote speaks volumes, it almost seems like Simon knew he wasn’t going to make it back home to England. He could’ve said something like, “We will make it back home,” or at least something along those lines, but he didn’t! This is just one example of the parallelism between Jesus and Simon, because like Jesus, so in a way Simon knew that he was going to die. During Simon’s final moments, he was trying to tell the other boys that there is no real beast, but the boys were so focused on killing “the beast” they didn’t realize they were killing Simon. The deaths of Jesus and Simon were unjust, and even when humanity was filled with darkness and evil they were still that ray of holy

Simon also represents the Christ figure in the story, which makes him morally good and pure, furthering his identity as the Superego. One example of the compassion that Simon is known to show throughout the story is when Jack has killed the first pig, and denies Piggy a piece of meat because they don’t get along. Simon decides that the best course of action was to put Piggy’s needs before his, and “shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it” (Golding 74). This shows the empathy he feels for others. When Simon is talking to Ralph and says, ”You’ll get back where you came from.” (Golding 111), this is an example of foreshadowing, but also an example of the empathy that he feels, because he wants Ralph to not be upset by anything and know that he’ll make it back okay, even if Simon doesn’t. Even during Simon’s death, when he emerges from the forest and towards the group, he is trying to tell them that there’s nothing to be afraid of, "Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill" (Golding 152), and when he is being pummeled, he still tries to tell them about the parachuting man. Simon’s selflessness and the fact that he is a Christ figure makes him the representation of

Simons dead body moved out toward the open sea” (Golding 154). In The Lord of the Flies, Golding refers to the boys as Beelzebub, a powerful demon in the bible that was very dangerous and feared almost like a powerful savage. In one of the big plots of the story is when Jack and his hunting crew goes and murders Simon and when you are a child you are raised to not murder anyone in this world; therefore the boys lose their human nature and murder Simon. The real problem the boys experience on the island is that they succumb human nature; therefore their solutions of authority structure by a dictatorship versus the conch and ultimately they fail.

All our personalities compare to a character from Lord of the Flies, and I found myself to be an ENFP or an idealist; someone most comparable to Simon. An ENFP or an idealist personality displays characteristics of being extroverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving which. Furthermore, passionately concerned with positive improvement, being kind, warm, sympathetic, distracted and motivated were all trait described in the personality test for the ENFP. Due to our selflessness, how introverted and extroverted we are, and how we can think both logically and emotionally, makes Simon and I most similar.

     Simon was even sacraficed during the ritual dance so that the other boys may live. When Simon died he was killed by all the boys, but many of them are told that it wasn't really him. Ralph knows it was Simon they killed, and he realizes how everyone is becoming because Simon died. Also the way Simon was shown in the movie after he died showed him as a Christ-figure in the story. Simon dies on water that is calm, peaceful, and pure, the light reflects off the water and gives a kind of feeling of holiness, and the way he was floating with his arms stretched out like he was on the cross as Jesus was.

Simon says to the group, “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.” … This shows that Simon is really the only one who is thinking with logic unlike the rest of the boys. Everyone acts like animals but Simon. As soon as Simon realizes that they are just imagining things in their heads he is killed. Even if Simon would have made it out of the woods to tell the group that everything they believed was just in their heads, the group still would not believe him. The boys are too mad at this point to listen to anything anyone has to

Ralph- Good- The fair-haired, tall, handsome Ralph is an obvious choice to lead the band of children stranded on the island. He has a "directness" in his manner that the narrator calls a sign of "genuine leadership. He seems to be genuinely interested in the welfare of the entire group and can get along with all kinds of people.

Jack’s bloodlust for hunting contributes to his savage state of mind. The first time the boys went on a hunt in the story Jack pulled back his arm with one swift motion as his knife raised ready to kill a pig. As his arm was raised, Jack took a long pause, the “pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be” (Golding 31). Jack knew that the act of killing would be counted as wrong, or bad, or even evil in his “normal” society. Knowing that Jack took a pause shows how the boys saw through society’s eyes for the last time. Jack had a breakthrough, he lost all societal bonds after being in this moment of hesitation. The next time the boys go hunting there is no hesitation. Jacks next prey was a innocent carefree sow. Jack leads the hunters inch by inch closer to the sow before commanding the start of the kill

Simon was one of the last signs of hope for the boys because he was still sane and understood most of what was going on. Unfortunately, the devil decided to give him a visit and give him a bit of a warning before he returned to the camp only to be beaten to death by the other boys as they thought he was the

Simon was also an allegorical role because of their death. They both get rejected by people they care for while trying to help them. They were both brutally, cruel, and unfairly killed for their actions. They both got killed by mistake or misunderstanding. While Simons lifestyle and objective were good, he also had downsides and

Simon comes from a very rich and prestigious family. He is described as a short, skinny, vivid and young boy. He has got bright eyes and black & straight hair. Simon is the youngest of the bigguns and he is one of the only boys on the island that is spiritual and innocent because he often sacrifices himself for the rest of the group. Most characters in the novel like him because he is truly a good person and seems to be very polite, faithful, fair, wise, brave, quiet, helpful, generous and sensitive. This boy is the naturally moral character. He tries to impress Ralph, he is so loyal to him and he is the only boy who helps Ralph to build shelters while the others just play and have fun. Simon also protects Piggy when Jack is nasty towards him

Simon is the type of person that tends to do what's best and not to stray from good thoughts and actions, and when he begins to think foul the group begins to become foul. Though Simon is very good and his morals reflect that, human nature isn't always meant to be

In the beginning of the novel, Simon is extraordinarily kind to everyone in the island, though his many differences to the other boys show that his innate goodness is an anomaly. For

Simon is also shown as a Christ- like figure. He represents the soul and is inherently good.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a gritty allegory of adolescence, innocence, and the unspoken side of human nature. Countless social issues are portrayed, however one of the most reoccurring is the nature of man. Throughout the novel there is an ever-present focus on the loss of innocence amongst the boys, shown by the deterioration of social skills and their retrogression into a barbaric form of society. Also portrayed is the juxtaposition of a cruel, evil main character and a more classically good counterpart, and their eternal rivalry for power and authority over their younger subjects. Does society or the lack thereof create evil in human nature, or simply magnify a pre-existing