... its mock Resurrection as it bow[ed] forward, sighing, bares reflection to the crucifixion of Jesus on the hill of Calvary, whilst the sulphurous explosion' has suggestions of the explosion of Heaven to expose a hell, which discharges devils as faceless littluns. William Golding uses implied irony in the way that the saintly Simon brings news to free his companion's bestial fear, but ... dance, they are amongst and indeed take on a role in the sacrifice of Simon. As the atmosphere and confusion fades, the sight of Simon's broken body' beneath the drip and trickle' of the clouds that opene...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... appears to resolve a situation) appears, at the last possible moment, in the form of the naval officer who brings the boys back to the world of law, order, and society. Golding's use of irony in the last chapter blurs the boundary between civilization and savagery and implies ... every human heart and promising to have some "fun" with him. (This "fun" foreshadows Simon's death in the following chapter.) In this way, the Lord of the Flies becomes both a physical manifestation of the beast, a symbol of the power of evil, and a kind of Satan figure ... elected the group's leader. Throughout...

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• Grade Level: High School