Lord Of The Flies

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Man’s life on earth is a constant struggle between good and evil. Humans choice or becoming pressured into facing this choice of taking sides. With these situations in life happening William Golding created Lord of the Flies .From images and instances of peace through images and instances of evil and finally through the representation of interaction of both , Golding’s Lord of the Flies presents a believable struggle that has characterized being human.
Golding captures the essence of peace with images and instances of peace/ Throughout the novel , we are shown numerouse symbolical situtations . Golding uses anything from “butterflies” to “sunlight”, which represents holy perfection to holiness , happiness , welcoming . With this symbolism Golding perfects Simon. Simon who is a mirror reflection of Jesus, brought peace to the island . Since none of the characters , besides Ralph realize how important Simon is, Simon is recognized more by the readers. At the beginning of the novel , Simon , is seen as “as skinny , vivid , little boy with a glance coming from under a hut of straight hair that hung down , black and coarse .” (20). At this poin , Simon, is not recognized as a holly symbol. However, later on the novel Simon reveals his peaceful, wise and somewhat understanding side. A very good example of how peaceful and wise Simon is , is “you’ll get back all right. I think so anyways.” (122). With Simon saying these words to Ralph, he hints to the readers his wise and peaceful side as well as his “power” to forcome even the future, which makes him seem even more Christ-LIKE.
However as we are reading about all this peacefulness, we are slowly creeped into evilness. Golding also used instances and images to project evil into the novel. In these cases, for evil, Golding uses Beesabub, the lord of the flies, as well as Jack as a representation of evil. However with Jack it’s more towards savagery and...