Simon's attempts to broadcast his wisdom with the rest of the group have him brutally murdered in a vicious frenzy. The snake in The Garden of Eden leads to Adam and Eve's disobedience which sequentially has them banished from the Garden, correspondingly, Simon's meeting with the lord of the flies ignites a chain reaction which steadily drives the island into ruins.
In our world today, we look at young children and believe that they are all pure human beings; clean slates that have not yet been tarnished with the evils that exist in the "real world". This misconception and blurred perception we have of children is one of the reasons why "The Lord of the Flies" is so controversial. The group of seemingly virtuous young men take a drastic descent to corruption throughout the course of the novel, this loss of innocence is a major theme that Golding used to express his personal views on mankind's innate impurity. Similarly, the loss of innocence displayed in "The Garden of Eden" gives insight on the origin of sin and the permanent stain that Adam and Eve's disobedience left on man's soul, a stain of evil that one can only ever mitigate but never remove. Comparably, both stories begin with the characters roaming in the nude, unashamed and willing. This is metaphorical to their current state of sinlessness and purity. In both tales, the main characters commence their moral decline because of temptation and their desire to attain knowledge or power. The boys on the island begin as ethical, well-behaved little boys. They stay in line because they are intrigued by the possibility of salvation and safety that Ralph had promised. Rebellion is far from their minds due to the fact that there originally was no other more appealing option for them and the rewards they could receive from being obedient were abundant. Identically, Adam and Eve were introduced in the story as two humans who were given a marvelous and fruitful garden which they could reside in as long as they could abide by God's rules.