Simon Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

The mask is a significant symbol of savagery and the dark side that lies within every human being. One instance is when Jack painted his face to fool the animals and blend in with the island for hunting. He painted his face with different colors and when he peered into the water he saw a stranger looking back at him.“He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness” (Golding

“Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” Jack was one the older kids on the island. He was in charge of the choir group when the boys first got the island. Instead he got addicted to killing pigs. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, jack was symbolic of evil and jealousy.

By saying that he will hunt down the beast, he is reassuring the boys that if they follow him, then the beast will be killed and they will have nothing to fear. It could be argued that Jack is helping the boys by saying that he will kill hunt down and kill the beast. While Jack is able to kill the beast, as shown to us by his ability to hunt pigs, his intentions are to take control of the boys by making them feel safe under his rule. Jack knows that the boys are vulnerable due to their fear, so he takes advantage of this by saying that he can solve their problems if he is their leader. As shown in the beginning of the chapter, Jack does not believe in the beast and only cares about absolute power over the boys on the island. William Golding uses the time of night to show the motif of darkness because the night is generally thought to be a dark time while the only light on the island was the bombs in the sky from the military battle. He also shows that the littluns have nightmares during the night about the beast. He is also using Jack to show motif because he is a representation of fear and darkness, which shows how he is slowly taking control over the boys. Though Jack does not have complete power as of yet, he is making a foundation for his rise to

Ralph: We need an assembly. Not for fun. Not for laughing and falling off the log.

Charles Dickens, a well-known writer, once said "Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature." While the thought of not having complete control of my actions and thoughts means I'm doing what's in my nature is uncomfortable, I see the truth and reasoning behind the statement. The quote can be clearly reflected in the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In the book, a group of boys get stranded on an island with no grownups. As the boys struggle to survive and stay connected with society, the primitive nature of the boys begin to appear. In the end, the group has completely disconnected from society and seem to have reverted to a more tribal like behavior. The boys fall to savagery is described in several ways.

William Golding’s Lord of The Flies follows a group of young boys who are stranded on an island after their plane crashes, and leaves them with no adults to look after them. When the children are brought together, after Ralph blows conch shell that he and Piggy found together, another group of boys shows up last. They seem to be described in a rather ominous fashion. “Then the creature stepped from the mirage on to the clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing.” (p19) Although this is just a bunch of young boys walking up the beach, the way Golding compares them to a creature and darkness makes it seem like there is something evil walking toward Ralphs and the group. Later in the book, all of the boys develop a rational fear that there is some sort of “beast” in the forest. In reality, as

“There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast … Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! … You knew, didn’t you? I’m a part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are?”

The conch is one of the most important symbols in the novel because it represents civility on the island and without civility, the whole island would fall into chaos. Golding uses the conch to show what would happen to humans if law and order were removed from humanity. Rules and order are the only things that are keeping the boys from falling into savagery. Jack is one of the first

People are playing different roles in today’s modern society. If one puts them in a different environment, the strong desires to survive will make people apply for the roles that are best for them. In the book The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys played different roles in the “society” they had created to able to survive and to get rescued. In the book, Piggy, Ralph, and Jack had played their individual crucial roles on the island.

The hair in the boys’ eyes symbolize the evil on the island. Lastly, he fire symbolizes the boys’ hope in getting rescued. The next paragraphs will explain how these symbols are related to the way the author saw his democratic society. Civilization is a very important theme in LOTF, represented by a polished cream-colored

George R.R. Martin, an American author, said “[t]here is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.” Martin notes that humans possess a savage nature that may or may not completely alter their personality. Some individuals have the strength to withstand their savage temptations and obey their morals. Although others may be consumed by their innate human nature, causing them to descend rapidly into savagery in order to achieve their goals. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, fire, the conch and the island represents how the innate darkness of humans can cause people to go from civilization to savagery. First off, they use the fire as a rescue method but it ends up

“Effective leaders need to be flexible, and must adapt themselves according to the situation.” The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of british boys that get stranded on a island and they have to figure how a way to govern themselves. Jack’s effective leadership throughout the novel led to great triumph.

Ralph is a 12 year old boy with fair, blond hair. He is “built like a boxer” because of the width and heaviness of his shoulders. “He was old enough, 12 years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil. ”(pg.10)

Obstacles are part of our daily life. People experienced obstacles all the time. Using “Lord of

The boys project their irrational fears as a derivative of their immaturity, in an attempt to identify a realized external enemy. Literary critic Lawrence S. Friedman explains, “Too immature to account for the enemy within, the boys project their irrational fears onto the outside world. The first of these projections takes the shape of a snakelike “beastie,” the product of a small boy’s nightmare.” (233) The boys’ irrational fear of the unknown, one of a small boy’s nightmare, only serves to exemplify their immaturity in handling situations like this. It is a stepping stone to events to come, prophesied by Simon. In addition, the character of Simon alludes to the fact that there evil ‘beast’ can really be traced to their internalized innate evilness. Simon argues, “maybe there is a beast… What I mean is… maybe it’s only us.” (Golding 89) While all of the boys attempt to explain the phenomena of the ‘beast,’ Simon is the one who realizes that the boys themselves are the evil ‘beast’ they perceive. There is no external force, the ‘beast’ only serves to be a placeholder for the boys’ true primal nature. However, it is Simon’s death, at the hand of the boys themselves, that only serves to prove that evil truly exists in all of these boys. Friedman suggests, “The ritual murder of Simon is as ironic as it is inevitable. Ironically, he is killed as the beast before he can explain that the beast does not exist. His horrid death refutes is aborted revelation: the beast exists, all right, not where we thought to find it, but within ourselves.” (236) His death is truly the tipping point, a point of no return for the boys. After his killing, Simon’s philosophy of inner evil is realized. It is clear that his own philosophy is what ultimately leads to Simon’s death, as unfortunate as it may be. It is reflected of the group’s fear of the unknown, and their