Essay about Lord of the Flies Simon as Christ

     The deaths of Simon and Jesus also had many things in common. Both were killed by members of their community, and were persecuted for the sins and evil of others. The events that directly followed the deaths of Simon and Jesus are very much similar also. According to the Bible, when Jesus was being persecuted “there was darkness over the whole land” (Mark 15:33) and once he died the earth shook. When Simon died “the clouds opened and let down the rain like a waterfall” (Golding 153).

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.

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 verses the Lord Of The Flies Couple kids end up on an island, what could possible go wrong? Well as mature as these boys might seem its not all fun and games when these boys do not have contact to the outside world for over a month or two. Each day the boys encounter a new conflict and the conflicts get scarier and more treacherous then the last day. “l’ll go if you like. I don’t mind, honestly’”

The character of Simon, from the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, is often viewed as an allegory of Jesus Christ, which is highly important, as Simon plays a significant role through the novel. Simon and Christ do not only share natural, unconditional kindness, there are many parallels to be drawn with Simon’s and Jesus’ lives. Many would argue that the following arguments discussed are more than just a coincidence, and that Golding intended and/or based Simon on Christ.

Simon shows his individuality and cravings for tranquility and cognizance also through his participation with others. One instance when he truly displays this is when he was picking fruit from the “littluns”. The “littluns” and “lugged them towards the trees” and “Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach” (Golding,56). He feeds them alone and “when he had satisfied them”he “turned away from them and went where the just perceptible path led him” (Golding,56). This shows how through his clarity with nature and himself, he helps others and continues to portray that he prefers to think, act, and help others by himself. He also shows his individualism when he reacted to the death of the pig. With the chaos going around him, Simon isolates himself and “lowered his head, carefully keeping his eyes shut, then sheltered them with his hands” next to the pile of guts Jack and Roger left after penetrating the pig’s head with a stick (Golding,138). He ignores everything around him and tries his best to hide away from the monstrous actions the other boys are committing. This also supports the idea that he favors time alone in his own thoughts in peace rather than facing his fear. In

In the The Lord of the Flies they're are many different characters that embodys various types of archetypes, one of those is Simon as the "Christ" figure. In the book Simon is portrayed like Christ because he is a very kind, compassionate, and peaceful person. He is also shown as a provider of food for example he provided fruit where in this case Christ provided bread. Around the end of the book simon is seen as a prophet just like Christ, he starts to apprehend who this beastie on the island truly is. When Simon tries to tell the boys on the island what he thought he was killed but in reality he was just an innocent boy, just like Christ was you can say "crucified".

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, every character has its own collection of distinct traits. Ralph is a leader, he is caring and smart. Jack is angry, power-hungry, and easily becomes a savage. Simon is a caring, religious, and abstract character. Simon is a more complicated character, he possesses some pronounced traits; he is kind, for example.

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

Simon is shown by Golding as a martyr who died for the truth. He gave

Simon had a specific mission in the novel: the opportunity to talk to the beast and receive answers, very similar to revelations. His role was to help the boys notice what the Beast really was, and not

Simon falls to the ground dead and is described as beautiful and pure. The description of his death, the manner in which he died, and the cause for which he died are remarkably similar to the circumstances of Christ's life and ultimate demise. The major difference is

Simon is not the leading protagonist of the novel but he represents Jesus, who would

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

Ralph and Simon are also both very complex characters, both representing society in different ways. Ralph’s character shows that people can have a moral, humane and innocent side, but that this way of thinking will be eradicated or suppressed by the evils of society. Simon’s character is super complex in the way that he seems as though he never lived in a corrupted society or was just always shielded really well, yet he still acts as though he knows the patterns of society, like an outside observer. Ralph’s personality is represented by Simon’s way of thinking at the very last scene in the book. He did something Simon would usually do when he “wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy” (202).