Simon's Murder

William Goldning’s Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel where literary techniques are utilized to convey the main ideas and themes of the novel. Two important central themes of the novel includes loss of civilization and innocense which tie into the concept of innate human evil. Loss of civilization is simply the transition from civilization to savagery; order to chaos. The concept of loss of innocense is a key concept to innate human evil because childhood innocense is disrupted as the group hunted animals and even their own. Through the use of literary techniques these ideas are seen in the passage where Simon confronts the “Lord of the Flies.”

It is difficult for Roger to break away from the crowd, so in order to fit in with his society he decides that he must kill Piggy. However since his decisions are based purely on his surroundings rather than his personal values, Roger is not guilty for Piggy’s death. But Roger’s genes or how he is raised do not determine his cruel decisions, his environment does. If Roger was still tied to the views of a civil community, he would never commit murder. The consequences are too great in an organized society for killing someone. Yet in Jack’s tribe there are no consequences, as execution is encouraged. Therefore there is pressure and tension within the group that is forcing Roger to act similarly to everyone else. If he does not act as a savage, he is seen as different which makes him unwanted and unaccepted. Roger is not purposely trying to kill Piggy, but is instead being pushed over the edge into doing something where he has no other

During Simon’s murder, the weather transforms into a hideous storm which represents the eruption of the boys’ morality as they descend into cruel behavior. “The clouds opened up and let down the rain like a waterfall”(153), “between the flashes of lightning was the air dark and terrible”(151), creating a dark and gloomy atmosphere, casting a shadow over their failed attempt in recreating

Last but not least, in Lord of the Flies, murderous actions took place in the story that reveals humans are in fact inherently evil. Simon and Piggy’s death are both pivotal points in the novel. Simon, who is the passive and timid type, awoke to a parachutist in front of him. After seeing this, he then realize that the beast, which the boys have mistaken for, is a harmless object and is not the deadly beast. Soon after, Simon gets killed when he tries to tell the other boys that the “beast” is just only a parachutist. In an attempt to inform the boys, Simon finds them having a feast. The boys are dancing and chanting, caught up some kind of frenzy. The group of boys did another reenactment of a pig hunt when suddenly the boys see a shadowy figure

There are multiple instances within the novel where dispositional factors lead to the act of evil. Roger is a bad apple, described as a cruel character who bullies littluns for his own personal amusement. It is believed that in the beginning of the book he was less savage as he still had a civilized part of him. However, as the story developed his evil character begins to show in full fruition when he kills Piggy. “Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned all his weight on the lever… Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square, red rock in the sea.” (Golding 201) In this quote, the death of Piggy is fully described. Not only does he die, but we also find out that Roger is responsible for Piggy’s cold-blooded assassination. This quote reveals that he is a bad apple because it exhibits his violent savage behavior and shows that these

Piggy was ignored throughout the story, Roger was evil and needed savagery. I feel Roger was very clever sociopath, Roger did not want fairness ,he was the leader of the pack he knew what he was doing, or what was going to happen to Piggy and also Henry at the beach, He did not need to release the boulder to hit Piggy, that is cold hearted to just do that. Roger was evil and bad before killing Piggy, at the beach who was a bully to Henry, this is where you know the rules and are testing them.But the beaten death of Simon, was bad,he was only try to spread theword about the beast It seem the boys turned on him, they though he was the beast. The conch was destroyed as well, which was a symbol and authority to the

Thesis Statement: The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding portrays the theme that regardless of each person’s different background and characteristics, every individual has the ability to commit brutal acts. While this book depicts Ralph and Piggy as the most civilized characters, and Jack and his hunters as young English choir boys, their actions reveal that they all have the capability to act violently.

Marshal Edward Mars wasn’t a murder.While Simon’s death was 1st degree, Piggy’s death was a 2nd degree murder,and Mar’s death wasn’t a murder. Simon’s death was First -degree murder because Roger became the pig,grunting and charging at Jack, who sidestepped. Ralph and Piggy had just to the beach where Jack’s tribe is at. There was a storm coming ahead and Jack calls his tribe to do their “chant”. At this point Roger was acting out as pig until no longer until he became the hunter,and Simon became the pig.In the beginning of the story the only person who knew the truth about the beast was Simon. Piggy’s death was most likely Second-degree murder by Roger because he had the intention to hurt Piggy . Roger feels the power when he throws the pebbles at the others boys (Doc F). “High Overhead,Roger,with a sense of delirious abandonment,leaned all his weight on the lever.” Delirious abandonment is worse than reckless abandonment,completely insane and wild loss of control. Ralph

Simon’s death was an accident. The boys started chanting in a circle about killing the beast while simon had found the truth about the beast. Simon was tired and came out of the woods crawling. The boys mistaked him for the beast and killed him. This can be considered murder, “That was murder.” ,Ralph said. It can also be voluntary or involuntary manslaughter. Their intent wasn't to kill him. The didn’t do it out of hate or plan it out. It was an accident and it could be considered manslaughter. Document D describes what all went on during Simon’s death. It talks about how they gathered in a circle and started to chant about killing the beast and doing a dance. Then they mistook simon for the beast. Later on piggy gets the blame

    Despite the progression of civilization and society's attempts to suppress man's darker side, moral depravity proves both indestructible and inescapable; contrary to culturally embraced views of humanistic tendencies towards goodness, each individual is susceptible to his base, innate instincts. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, seemingly innocent schoolboys evolve into bloodthirsty savages as the latent evil within them emerges. Their regression into savagery is ironically paralleled by an intensifying fear of evil, and it culminates in several brutal slays as well as a frenzied manhunt. The graphic consequence of the boys' unrestrained barbarity, emphasized by the

This story shows that the evil around us can sometimes deceive us into wrongdoing if we do not trust our moral instincts or trust those in higher positions than us. William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, used his work to show the public that fear can lead people to destruction and evil ways if we do not attempt to control the beast within us. The way that Golding showed his audience this, was by carefully and thoughtfully placing symbolism throughout the novel and in each and every character.

This act is not needed to kill the pig and Roger continues to unnecessarily it as he pushes his spear “forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream”(135). At this moment for Roger there is still a separation between animals a human's but while he has control over the boulder he looks down at Piggy and Ralph and only sees “shaggy heads” dehumanizing them (175). Roger throws a stone at Samneric aiming to miss again still held back by social taboo. With this action sam almost falls causing “some source of power [to begin] to pulse” within Roger (175). Roger soon after pulls the lever, unleashing the boulder that kills Piggy, with a sense of “delirious abandonment” (180).

Our world is full of vicious, hazardous and dangerous aspects of life, but if there is anything we should be afraid of most, it is ourselves. William Golding’s 1954 World War II novel, Lord of the Flies, revolves around a group of English schoolboys whose plane crashes on an island after being shot out of the sky. The wilderness and lack of pre-existing society prompts them to develop a civilization, but things turn sour and man's malign nature quickly takes hold. The Lord of the Flies is not a physical being or object, but a representation of the idea that all humans are inherently evil and deep-rooted with masochistic, selfish instincts. Before one can understand how the Lord of the Flies represents innate evil, it is important that the three constituents of man’s depravity are explored.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a gritty allegory of adolescence, innocence, and the unspoken side of human nature. Countless social issues are portrayed, however one of the most reoccurring is the nature of man. Throughout the novel there is an ever-present focus on the loss of innocence amongst the boys, shown by the deterioration of social skills and their retrogression into a barbaric form of society. Also portrayed is the juxtaposition of a cruel, evil main character and a more classically good counterpart, and their eternal rivalry for power and authority over their younger subjects. Does society or the lack thereof create evil in human nature, or simply magnify a pre-existing

In the words of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.” In other words, humans harbor an ever present looming evil nature within themselves. Evil is the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin, or the wicked or immoral part of someone. This concept of inner evil rising to the surface permeates William Golding’s dystopian novel Lord of the Flies, that evil exists in every human, proven through the characterization of the marooned boys. There is foreshadowing of the dangers of the boys’ inner immorality from one of the boys, Simon. As the novel progresses, evil starts asserts itself as the boys cast off their innocence and humanity, and turning against each other. Even the