... had taken away its life like a long satisfying drink. He gives himself over to his deeper, intrinsic bloodlust and savagery self. This, "Man the Hunter,"" is Golding's belief, a primeval and animal image, of the naturally uncivilised and savage state of humanity, if left to set their own standards and follow inherent desires. Simon, with his prophet-like disposition personifies an innately ... indelible mark of evil on each person's heart which requires a constant resistance of intellect that was Piggy, of the mysticism and spiritualism that was Simon and by the hopes and dreams that ar...

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