Simon Lord Of The Flies Analysis

Throughout the time the boys were stranded on the island, Simon, in particular, displays his longing for peace and understanding. He not only desires those things but also desires to be alone in nature or alone when trying to understand. Golding first introduces this quality of Simon when Simon excluded himself from the “littluns” and goes into a secluded place in the forest where he seems to have found peace by communing with nature. He held “his breath...cocked a critical ear at the sounds of the islands” and brings himself into a meditative state (Golding,57). His actions of listening carefully to the “sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls” expresses his love of peace which he finds in nature

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph sees himself as civilized, responsible, and a leader. Ralph sees himself as civilized because while on the island he tries to create order and rule. Ralph speaks to all of the boys, "If we have a signal going they'll come and take us off. And another thing. We ought to have more rules. Where the conch is, that's a meeting. The same here as down there" (Golding 420). Ralph tells the boys that there will be rules and that they need to follow them. Ralph's civilization kicks in at this moment by commanding rules and order. Ralph also views himself as responsible. Throughout his time on the island Ralph tries his best to make good decisions, not only for himself, but for all the boys. Even when has

“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed”(Rand). This was stated by Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand; the extract relates to the novel William Golding wrote called Lord of the Flies. Golding wrote about a group of schoolboys trapped on an island from a plane crash. The boys had to figure out how to survive without grownups. Trying to survive was difficult because they had to have common sense and order. They lose those traits throughout the book which resulted in selfishness and corrupt behaviors.

What went wrong in the Lord of the Flies? Some may say Jack and some may say Roger, but what are the real reasons for the downfall of the boys? They are, the loss of hope, the loss of order, and the passing of time.

Over the summer we all read the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding and had to put of with the one called Jack. In nearly every book there is a so called villain or bad guy to make the story more interesting and eventful, and Jack is just that character. There are many words to describe jack but my word is superior. over all. Throughout the story you start to understand Jacks’s horrid personality and actions which leaves me to believe the best word to describe jack is ¨wicked¨.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

Throughout history, philosophers have wondered what essentially drives people to do certain actions. It is not clear whether these actions occur because humans are intrinsically good or bad. Nevertheless, the novel Lord of the Flies and several historical examples provide some insight into why human beings may be fundamentally bad.

In Lord of the Flies, many characters act as foils to each other. Simon and Jack highlight the stark contrasts between each other. Simon is moral, where as Jack is immoral. The good in Simon highlights the evil in Jack. This relationship contributes to the theme that when power is unchecked by logic it can become a destructive force.

Everyone else has become a savage. Is Ralph on his way of becoming one too?

Simon is one of the most complex characters in Lord of the Flies. But who is he? What is his character? The traits that make Simon himself are his insightfulness, kindness, and shyness. He is proven to be insightful when he suggests the Beast is in the boys, he is kind when he gives fruit to the littluns, and he is shown to be shy when he declines to speak on numerous occasions. All of these actions show his character.

The character of Simon can be said to portray similar ideas to Blake’s ‘ The Lamb’ as he is also a symbol of innocence and purity, a character of innate morality that seems to be at one with nature whereas the boys, now not having the influence of civilisation forcing the morality of ethics upon them, completely desert them. Throughout the novel, there are references to Simon as being a Christ figure and this is seen through his little adventures by himself into the wilderness to find peace, which Jesus Christ himself did. The places he explores in the wilderness. "The whole space was walled with dark, aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light…the deep sea…made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the [boys’] blood’ is a description of the island when Simon goes

The event that occurred 25 years ago has had a great impact on the young man. Although he would like to keep his last name anonymous, he will still be called by his first name, Simon. He was among one of the survivors that were stranded on an island due to the war. With Simon’s caring nature to the littluns, he was able to survive the harsh environment. Today Simon is now an adult and has a job. What could his life be like now?

The attitude that can not be changed, and selfishness of Jack in this novel is the primary group of the instinct of savagery, violence, the desire for power of the boys, and that he is totally opposite of Ralph. From the start of this novel, Jack wants power on everything that is in the island. He got really mad when he lost the election (to be leader) to Ralph and he keeps on pushing the limit of his lower power in the group. Early on, Jack keeps the sense of good manners and behavior that was introduced in him, plus, before they got stuck in the island Jack was the leader of the choirboys. When Jack goes to his shelter he made he sees the pig. The first time he saw the pig, he is not able to kill it. So Jack soon starts to like hunting things and commits himself on hunting, and he paints his face like a barbarian and he has the desire to kill and hurt others. The more

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

“Isolation is a dream killer” (Barbara Sher). In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, kids stranded on an island must figure out how to survive. By hunting pigs and building shelters the kids tried to subsist on the island. Through the process of hunting, the kids became cruel, evolving to the point of being barbaric. Thus, through the barbaric actions of the boys and the outside world, Golding shows that savagery exists in all people.