... the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely a gleaming white skull-as white as the conch shell, he notes. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake it was impaled on to use as a weapon against Jack. That night, ... the midst of a chaotic revelry-even Ralph and Piggy have joined Jack's feast-and when they see Simon's shadowy figure emerge from the jungle, they fall upon him and kill him with their bare hands and teeth. The following morning, Ralph and Piggy discuss what they have done. Jack's hunters attack them .....

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... an example of Golding's corrupt soul. SamnEric, represent the common folk. Although in the beginning they are part of the society, when things begin to fall apart they do not hesitate to join up with Jack's hunters. They also represent man's survival instinct, "Memory of their new and ... , Marlow is confronted with a human head "black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids-. The destruction of the illusions that various people had for Kurtz symbolize the absence of those characteristics from the human soul. The descriptions also reinforce the already gloomy circumstances surrounding the jo...

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