Simon as a Christ Figure in Lo
William Golding once believed in the idea that the educated, civilized people could do no wrong, but that is before the events of WWII forever changed his view of society (Spitz). In regards to that time, Golding once stated that, "...anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been bind or wrong in the head..." (Spitz). With his new critical view of human nature, William Golding began work on the novel Lord of the Flies, with the intent "to trace the defects of society back to human nature" (Baker). Incorporating his experience teaching in England, William Golding creates a society on a deserted island with young schoolboys to show the true, violent nature of people, no matter how educated or civilized they are. The world Golding creates is representative of society as a whole as it demonstrates what happens when mankind fails to think logically and chooses to support ideas and the figures that present them, no matter how morally and legally wrong they are. To complete the allegory, Golding includes a young boy named Simon to represent Jesus Christ as Simon is an omniscient figure in a world where truth, knowledge, and reason have little importance.
olding introduces Simon to the reader, he immediately distinguishes him from the rest of the boys by having him faint, which is a common ailment for Simon (Golding 20). you'd better run off and play with the others, They think you're batty. Indeed, Simon does recover from his latest fainting spell with new knowledge about the true physical manifestation of the beast. By having Simon suffer from epilepsy and continually faint, Golding uses the illness to help portray him as a saint (Reilly). Before his death, Christ undergoes sever physical torture of his own, where the prophet Isaiah says,". the picture of a human at once heroic and sick" (Golding 103). Not long after this vision, Simon walks into a tree and receives a head wound (104). The presence of the tiny bugs creates an aura around Simon's head and conjures the image of the halo that saints and gods wear, in addition to the crown that Jesus wears when he is crucified (Rosenfield). Once the others leave and Simon is alone with the pig's head, he begins to hallucinate and believes that he is communicating with the pig. Like Christ's death, Simon undergoes an excruciatingly painful death in order to depict the pain that sin can cause (bibletools.
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