Religion In Lord Of The Flies

Simon is the one boy who never participates in destructive behaviors and always contributes to the well being of the boys. He continues to work even after everyone stops, gives Piggy food when no one else will, and speaks his mind about the beast. He is also the only one to realize that the true beast is inside the boys. Simon’s moral compass, much like the superego, allows him to see the evil of mankind. Simon is whole-heartedly good. The superego attempts to lead a person to the morally right pathway, much like Simon aims to show Ralph how he can do what’s best for the tribe. The primitive nature of the others overpowers Simon’s internal good nature. Even after his death, Simon’s moral nature lives on through the boys similar to how the superego can continue to shine after a person follows the desires of the id.

In the novel, Simon is described as a dark-haired boy with a dark complexion, similar to the regionally correct Jesus Christ. Simon represents Christ in the way that he is still in touch with his consciousness and can ward off the darkness present in all humans. He is the first to die when trying to show the boys the truth of the “beast.” This is the same beast he describes as found in all humans, not roaming the island as a creature. Ralph is the elected leader of the boys on the island.

Simon has a heightened perception, even more so than Piggy. Simon is unique because he can actually hear the voice of the beast. He realizes that the beast is not something one can kill because it 's inside the boys. Simon is seen as a Christ figure. He gives up his own life in an attempt to tell the rest of the boys about the beast. Jack wants to take control over the whole society. Jack is the leading support of anarchy on the island. Jack is the leader of the savage tribe which hunts the pigs. Opposed to Ralph and Piggy on almost all matters, Jack represents the identification of one 's personality— he supports the notion that one 's desires are most important and should be followed, regardless of reason or morals. Jack is the kind of person that is believed everyone would eventually become if left alone to set one 's own standards and live the way one naturally wanted. In this novel it is believed that the natural state of humans is disordered and that man is inherently evil. When reason is abandoned, only the strong survive. Jack personifies this idea perfectly.

Simon, a god-like and civilized character, is put to death by a tribe who has mistaken him for a beast. Jack, the leader of the tribe, has influenced the group of boys to be impulsive, savage-like, and to live in fear of the beast that lives in their imagination. Jack is responsible for Simon’s death due to his tainted morals and savage-like

A boy named Simon recognizes that there is something evil lurking beneath the other boys but it is too late. By the final chapter, three boys are dead, and the remaining ones are rescued. Simon’s character fulfills the Christ archetype because he rids the island of the beast, which is the root of the boys’ depravity and

Simon is symbolized as things such as depression and loneliness which is very important, in the book because there is one point where someone says to the boys on the beach, which means that he thought about it while the others did not think about it. He thought about the problem and the things that the boys did, he becomes the beast himself. The story states, ”maybe we are the beast” (Golding).

Since Simon wasn’t shown much in the movie we didn’t get to see his true identity and character, nor did we get to see the Christ side of him. To begin with, in the novel there was a scene where Simon goes into the forest and he sees the Lord of the Flies. This scene helped us see the Christ side

In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Simon represents the innate morality of humans, acting as a Christ-like figure, while Roger embodies the all present cruelty and inherent sadism of individuals. Throughout the novel, Simon remains unchanged in terms of morality, as others slowly turn to savagery and hunting, as can be seen when Jack’s group become, “demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green.” Instead Simon finds a quiet spot “in a little cabin screened off from the open space by a few leaves.” By “holding his breath, he [cocks] a critical ear at the sounds of the island,” using his secret cabin to meditate. Coupled with his deep connection to nature, Simon is revealed to be a Christ figure. When left alone with the

Simon, one of the major characters in the story, is set as the allusion of Jesus. Christ always had an affinity with children; in Ch. 4, he shows his way with the ‘littluns’ by picking fruit for them. This shows his goodness by nature. Also, like Christ, he saw the atavistic problem of the hunters and tried to bring them back to good. As in the bible, Simon, like Christ, dies

Simon, though he did not tell the other boys of his vision, was incapable of forgetting. He was the observant character, the quiet philosopher. He was often alone, sometimes by his own choice, and he liked to wander into the peaceful jungle. He sincerely cared about the other boys, sometimes helping the young ones to fetch fruit, yet "Simon turned away from them and went where the just perceptible path led him. Soon high jungle closed in" (56). He loved solitude and yet felt loneliness; he was alien to the other boys. The boys did not think anyone would be stupid enough to go into the jungle by night: "The assembly grinned at the thought of going out into the darkness. Then Simon stood up and Ralph looked at him in astonishment" (85). Many of the boys even thought he was "batty" because he left the group to spend time alone.  He did not fear the jungle, and he did not fear the Beast. "'Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast. . . . maybe it's only us'" (89).

When Ralph calls an assembly to discuss the problems with their living conditions, Ralph brings up the beast and the fear that it brings to the boys. Jack argues, “I’ve been all over this island… If there were a beast I’d have seen it… but there is no beast in the forest,” Jack believes that there is no beast, that the younger kids, the littluns, are just frightened because they are like that (Golding 101). At such a young age, ages five to thirteen, these boys do not understand the meaning of what Jack is saying, there is no beast, but that does not mean there is not something to fear on the island. An older boy named Simon is described as, “mankind’s essential illness,” from a biblical point of view, Simon was a Jesus like character, he started to realize something while Jack was giving his no-beast speech (Golding 109).

The character of Simon in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies has often been viewed as the Christ figure of the novel. If you were to examine the actions of both Simon and Jesus, you would find a number of incidents that parallel each other.

In the beginning of the book the boys don’t believe in the beast but as the story goes on their belief in the beast grows stronger. The longer the boys are on the island the more out of control they get. Golding then says "Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea." He uses Simon's murder as a representation of how the island has changed the boys (Golding 154). Over time Simon had become the only one to realize what was truly going on.

Children are savages by nature, when no adults are around. One kid on the island truly doesn’t have any savage in him. Simon is a Christ-like figure, that continuously stays true to himself and his morals. Simon will not let anyone or anything get in the way of this.

Simon’s spirituality has given him the ability to feel one with nature and find deeper meanings. Although the terrible events on the island have influenced the boys, Simon was able to rise above evil and remain his innate self. However, savagery and civilization together had destroyed Simon’s spiritual truth.