Navar Shane May 5, 2015
English 1/Per. 1
Mrs. Marechal
Lord of the Titles The novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding begins with a plane filled with young British schoolboys that tragically crash lands on to a lone island in the middle of the ocean. No adults survive the crash, thus the children are stranded left to fend for themselves in a pre technological microcosm that they are now in. As the story continues the boys start to lose site of wrong from right and civility. Simon a character in
Lord of the Flies, represents a christ like figure who is later on killed by the other boys.
William Golding chooses to kill Simon in the story because he wants to show that in society, religion will eventually cease to exist.
Throughout the novel there are allegories of Simon representing christ or a religious figure. It all begins with Simons name which is a reference to Simon Peter from the Bible, who was one of the disciples. It all begins with Simons name which is a reference to Simon Peter from the Bible, who was one of the disciples. LIke Christ,
Simon is also described as a peaceful kind innocent person. Also like Christ, when simon tries to bring knowledge and understanding to his own people he is brutally murdered.
"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. When he had satisfied them he paused and looked around. The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit." Feeding the littluns fruit which they cannot reach themselves is like from the bible when Jesus feeding of the thousands. Jesus finds the best or fruits and makes sure that all the littluns have what they need.
In Lord of the Flies Simons goddess personality shows on multiple occasions. In chapter eight, Simon interacts with the lord of the flies, it telling him there is no escape and the beast may be only them, he also hallucinated that the pig head said they would have some fun later, which is foreshadowing his death. Many might lead to believe that
Wiliam Golding meant Simon to have a religious epiphany and to talk to the gods. See quote from chapter eight:
Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt or kill!
… You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close. I'm the reason