Lord Of The Flies

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go crazy for killing. At this time, “the terror rose another desire, thick, urgent, blind”, Simon runs into Jack’s group and being killed by them. Simon, in the novel, is as a symbol of Christ, he warns Jack’s group about the truth of the beast’s existence. He is also a schoolboy who has a kind and mild temper. Golding tries to show us that man, in nature, will do anything even to kill Christ just when they feel insecure. Also it is just as what Hobbes suggests, human beings are a kind of weak creature, they are fear everything that will threaten their life and their advantages. The only way man to be secure is to attack the intimidator. Here we can use Hobbes’s theory to explain those schoolboys’ murdered action, those boys just want to destroy the source of fear. However, in this part, Golding also wants to show us that man are naturally evil; there is no place for God, human’s fall is not only because Adam and Eve did not pass the temptation of the serpent, but also because humans give up from listening God’s warning by th...