Simon Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis

Jack and his chosen group of hunters all follow Jack and fail to follow Ralph’s command to keep civilization under control. Simon and his natural behaviors contrast with Jack as he sees the positive interests and goodness in civilization. Simon’s actions reveal his shy, yet kind, and non confrontational attitude which makes the importance of his character hard to notice. Simon is the mediator on the island, as he will never decline a request from the little children for food, an order from Ralph to help build shelters, and tries to keep the peace between the hunters and the civilized boys. Simon can be seen as the most compassionate character on the island as displayed in this quote: “Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy, wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it. The twins giggled and Simon lowered his face in shame” (Golding 74). Jack, on the other hand, is most malicious towards Piggy as he eventually becomes consumed by evil and and will attempt to destroy all points of civilization and innocence left on the island. Innocence is bestowed upon nearly all the boys trying to keep civilization alive on the island and is despised by Jack and his highly influenced choir boys turned hunters.

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

Take for instance, Roger, a character from the novel, Lord of the Flies who is a sadistic person, finding pleasure in hurting others. Do you really believe that even if he was in a group where he finds himself to be part of a dangerous situation and he is needed to save one of the other boys, say Piggy for example, that he would do it? Of course not. He has proven to us that he enjoys inflicting harm on others, especially someone like Piggy. Golding himself states in Lord of the Flies, “A full effort would send the rock thundering down to neck of land. Roger admired.” (Golding 159). What Golding is saying is that Roger wants to harm Piggy so with that in mind, he finds that the rock is the best thing to achieve what he wants. It follows then that the kind of personality that the person has will either get them to help someone out or get them to harm them as well. Someone like Ralph and Piggy, who have more sympathy towards those that get hurt would be more willing to help out than someone like Roger and Jack. Roger and Jack are more of the kind to not help others out unless it benefits them or gives them pleasure in inflicting pain upon someone else in Roger’s case, but this is where we can see every person is different. It is not just that responsibility has been unconsciously passed on to someone else. Nevertheless, it would have been beneficial in Darley’s and Latane’s case to include both external and internal contributions as to why people decided not to aid another

The idealist is often trying to help others, as well as the world, enhancing it in any way they can, as stated by the personality test. Simon displays this need to help others through many of his actions within the book, “as Simon thought this…the beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. He started down the mountain and his legs give beneath him (Lowry 147).” In this passage, Simon is hurt yet he wants to help resume order amongst the boys, by eliminating the fear that controls them, which show he has a vision for a better world. "Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands (Lowry 56).” Similarly, Simon also is the only one that

Piggy, Ralph, Jack, and Roger were all crucial characters throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding. All these characters made questionable decisions that when combined, contributed to Piggy’s necessary demise. Although some character’s decisions had a greater impact than others, they were all responsible in some way. Piggy’s stubborn behavior, Ralph’s lack of leadership, Jack’s power hungry and irresponsible behavior, and Roger’s unstable mental state all contributed towards Piggy’s passing. All this contributed to Piggy’s death and were necessary to the survival of everyone on the island.

Despite the fact that he is physically weak, and “flopped on his face in the sand” (Golding 20), fainting when we first meet him, he still manages to be heroic. Perhaps the most obvious proof of this is his willingness to help the weak, the outcasts. For example, he gave up his food to Piggy when Jack refused to give him food, and helped littluns in the forest, “found for them the fruit they could not reach...passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands” (Golding 56). Additionally, he tries to vanquish the irrational fear of the beast, but “became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.” (Golding 89). When he finally scales the mountain, to discover that the “beast” is truly just a dead man that fell from a plane, he loses his life trying to tell the other boys, as they tore him apart in their savage dance. So, despite the fact that Simon fails to actually save the boys from the true beast within them all, he tries his best, and dies not having wavered in his dedication, as did Ralph and

When left to themselves without laws or consequences for their actions, humans reveal an ugly and chaotic side of themselves. This horrid side of humans is ultimately lead by Sigmund Freud’s concept of the human ID, which describes the evil and twisted side of the human mind. This concept of inevitable anarchy due to a lack of laws is exhibited in William Golding’s novel, Lord of The Flies. Through notable characters such as Jack, Roger, Ralph, and Piggy, Golding elucidates how even once civilized, people can immediately change based on their environment. The lack of a strong government and strict laws leads these boys into an ultimate anarchic war which threatens their survival and their chances of getting rescued from the island. Multiple characters such as Piggy, get killed due to this lack and inability of the boys to follow 18th century philosopher, Cesare Beccaria’s, belief of a strong judicial system to hold people accountable for their actions. The boys responsible for Piggy’s death (Roger and other hunters) are simply let go without any punishments or consequences. Eventually, this barbarous and savage war almost leads to the island being devastated by a fire created by Jack’s tribe to capture Ralph for simply trying to bring back law to the island. Fortunately, the boys are saved by a naval officer who was able to spot the large bonfire. Although the boys try their best to implement Cesare Beccaria’s idea of a strong judicial system to have effective consequences

The actions Simon takes to help others fulfils the message that Jesus wants His people to perform. Simon is merciful and is the goodness of the novel. Even though he was faced with temptation by being intimidated by the lord of the flies, he didn’t fall for it. Furthermore, Simon’s quiet, introspective personality is what sets him apart from the rest of the boys and makes him feel the need to help others. Ultimately, Simon is the Christ-like character in Lord of the Flies because he is merciful, was tempted by the Devil, and died because of

In the novel, Golding describes, “…Amid the roar of bees in afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless outstretched hands.” (56) In contrast to the other boys, who are mistreating the littluns, Simon picks the fruit they were reaching for for them, using his advantage of height selflessly. In this way, Simon has a caring nature. Additionally, Simon shows a hardworking attitude, and a willingness to help everyone.

Basically, he represents human goodness. Unlike all the other boys on the island, Simon acts morally not out of guilt or shame but because he believes in the inherent value of morality. He behaves kindly toward the younger children, and he is the first to realize the problem posed by the beast and the Lord of the Flies. He said, “...maybe there is a beast... maybe it’s only us, “ (pg.

In The Lord Of The Flies, the readers refer Simon is a sacrificial character. Simon reminds us all of Jesus or Christ-like. His personality is Christ-like, he cares for others, and if someone is hurt he will comfort them. Simon is always helping out by reaching the fruit from a high tree for the littluns. He is a skinny, active little boy, with very straight blond hair, almost white. His eyes are so bright blue that Ralph had been convinced that he would be odd or insane. When Simon died, Golding describes his death, saying, “Softly surrounded by a fringe of shape beneath bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simons dead body moved out toward the open sea.”(154)

While all the other children in the novel succom to corruption by the presence of evil Simon perseveres through it all. Simon proves himself to be a godly character by feeding the young children, trying to warn the others of the real danger, treating others the way he would want to be treated, caring for others before caring for himself, and many more qualites Jesus Christ would have. Simons similarity to Jesus also shows how he is different from the other characters in the novel. Simons death, his actions, and his mindset show how he is not affected by the evil that corrupts all of the other children. The other children on the island start beating Simon to death almost the instant Simon comes from out of the forest.

Another way Simon is a leader is helping people out from the goodness of his heart with maturity and innocence. For example “Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the littluns the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, and passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands” (57). This demonstrates that the smaller boys are dependent on Simon to help them get food. When Simon realizes that the littluns are dependent on him, Simon realizes that he needs to act more like an a adult. Another example of Simon having innocence is when Simon refused to enter the world of savegery and he chooses to do right from wrong.

He helps the littluns pick fruit when he is passing by to go to his place in the forest. “… pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage”(Golding 56). This act of kindness helps the kids get food when they cannot reach any of the fruit in the forest. When Ralph needs help to build the shelters, everyone leaves him except for Simon. When Jack knocks Piggy’s glasses of his face, Simon goes to pick them up. Normally, adults teach children to act appropriately towards each other. Simon willingly helps everyone on the island even though he thinks that they probably do not need him. Helping people is usually a skill one picks up during their adolescent years.

Since the older kids didn’t really care for the younger ones, also known as ‘littluns’, Simon helped them to get fruit. Without Simon, the littluns wouldn’t be able to survive long enough to be rescued. Since many of the littluns weren't tall enough to pick fruit, Simon would pick the ripe fruit that they couldn’t reach, for them. “ Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched