The True Inner Nature Of Simon

Simon’s disappearances add to his oracle persona because visionaries are often portrayed as mysterious and elusive. His absences also accentuate his role as a Christ figure because Jesus Christ frequently strayed from the masses to pray by himself. Bestowing food on the other boys, distancing himself from the group, and prophesying the future establish Simon as an archetypical oracle and Christ figure.

Many of the prophecies revealed by Jesus were also disregarded and not accepted by everyone. This depicts that both Simon and Jesus were misunderstood by the people around them.

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 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

Jesus is a holy man. He doesn’t hesitate to help others, even if it makes him unpopular. Simon displays this quality by helping and standing up for Piggy, a boy few respect. Jesus is a carpenter. By helping Ralph build shelters, Simon is also serving as a carpenter. Jesus, in addition, develops a friendship with children like Simon who helps the children collect fruit from trees which they cannot reach. “...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) Both Simon and Jesus possess a gift for prophecy. Both realize that they would be killed for the lives of others. Jesus is tempted by the devil for forty days to disobey God. Likewise, Simon is tempted by the Lord of the Flies. “The Lord of the Flies tells Simon, ‘You’d better run on and play with the others. They think you’re batty.’”(143) Jesus and Simon encounter numerous of the same experiences and display the same virtues.

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 tries to state the truth: there is a beast, but that "it's only us" (page #). When he makes this revelation, he is ridiculed. This is an uncanny parallel to the misunderstanding that Christ had to deal with throughout his life. Later in the story, the savage hunters are chasing a pig. Once they kill the pig, they put its head on a stick and Simon experiences an epiphany in which the Beast tells Simon: "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!  You knew, didn't you? I'm part of all of you " (143).  As Simon rushes to the campfire to tell the boys of his discovery, he is hit in the side with a spear, his prophecy rejected and the word he wished to spread ignored.

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

Simon finds God in everything. He states this when he is in the corner and Mrs. Leavley asks him what he is doing, he says thinking about God. Mrs. Leavley says how do you find God in the floorboards. Simon Burch responds you can find God in everything even the floorboards. When he says this I believe he is on a higher level on Fowlers Depth Chart. I think this because he is saying it doesn’t matter what you look at, it matters how you look at it and how you can find God in the object. He also believed that God had a plan for him and that he was made the way he was for a

While Simon is sitting in his hidden spot, he comes face to face with evil itself and realizes that he was right all along. Simon decided to visit his isolated place once again. When he got there, he noticed that the air was hotter than usual and he was very thirsty, but something compelled Simon to stay: “That other time the air had seemed to vibrate with heat; but now it threatened… Presently he was thirsty, and then very thirsty. He continued to sit” (Golding 146). This relates to how Jesus sat in the Garden of Gethsemane with his disciples. He knew his fate, but instead of running, he stayed even though he knew he was going to be taken and sentenced to death. While Simon waits, a few of the other boys hunt and kill a pig and plant it’s

This shows that Simon has thought about it and is thinking about it more as he moves forward and ends up putting on the pig to show everyone how he feels but ends up getting killed. Simon shut people out because he was torn between doing the right thing and not doing the right thing. He understands that if he just goes away that he won’t have to be torn. Which shows that he would rather step back and think and look then to just jump to conclusions. Simon is mature for doing what he did. This is very important because it shows that people that you say you can trust you can’t and they stab you in the back. Simon is a very important person in the book and always will

In Chapter 16 of The Gospel of Matthew, the dynamics of Simon and Jesus’ relationship quickly change. Peter says, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Mt.16.16) and Jesus replies, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah!” (Mt.16.17) but then Peter rebukes him soon after and Jesus says, “Get behind me, Satan!” (Mt.16.23)

In modern Christianity, the denial of Jesus Christ by Simon Peter, who later became Saint Peter, can be described as one of the most powerful events of the New Testament. The act is the culmination of Jesus’ prediction to Peter during the Last Supper. In Matthew 26:34 of the Holy Bible, Jesus states to Peter, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” To Simon Peter, this seems comical, for Peter feels that he is a devoted disciple, but to the reader it is an eerie moment. His forward knowledge of Peter’s deceit and Jesus’ calm acceptance of the future are contemplative material for the reader. The act of denial only increases the fright, as Simon Peter’s actions fulfill the prophecy and substantiate