The character of Simon in William Golding's Lord of the Flies has often been viewed as the Christ figure of the novel. If you were to look at the actions of both Simon and Jesus, you would find a number of times that the situations are similar to each other.
             In the book, one of the first things that Simon does in chapter three is when he helps the littluns get fruit; "Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach" (Golding 56). Jesus often helped the hungry for example when he turned five loaves of bread and two fish into enough food for thousands. After that Simon wondered off into the woods and when he was there, he felt calm. "He came at last to a place where more sunshine fell" (Golding 56). The light that Simon saw can be looked at as God speaking to him, which explains why he was so calm in the woods.
             In chapter five, the boys begin to discuss the existence of a beast on the island. When Simon was asked what he though about it, he replied; " what I mean is ...maybe it's only us"(Golding 89). The boys didn't understand the idea that the evil was not something to be feared in the jungle, but to be feared within them.
             The deaths of Simon and Jesus also had many things in common. Both were killed by members of their community, and were persecuted for the sins and evil of others. The events that followed the deaths of Simon and Jesus are also very similar. According to the Bible, when Jesus was being persecuted "there was darkness over the whole land" (Mark 15:33). When Simon died "the clouds opened and let down the rain like a waterfall" (Golding 153)
             In Conclusion, throughout the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Simon as the only boy on the island holding a good soul. Many of the actions and events that Simon goes through also contain a very strong similarity to the actions of Christ and what he went through.
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