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Lord of the Flies

 

He is described as "painted and garlanded. .like and idol." That is just like Stalin who promised a better society but in the end it became much like the old system.
             After Jack becomes chief he makes others within his own group scapegoats to keep in power.
             "He's going to beat Wilfred".
             Jack also attacks the weak such as Piggy to gain more control.
             "Who cares what you believe-Fatty!".
             That is more like bullying but can also be compare Hitler, e.g. his attack on Jews.
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             The next character is Simon. Simon is a very quiet person who never stands up or talks very much.
             He understands the good and evil in man but rarely tries and expresses it to others. When he does, in one of the assemblies, he is merely disturbed all the time. The others are too immature to understand what Simon is trying to tell them.
             "Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.".
             Simon is representing the different religious figures through time. People have always thought them strange ('batty') and not always taking them serious. However a lot of these figures have understood the good and evil everybody is capable of and have stood up to it and accepted it. Simon does this too, where the evil in man is the beast and the pig head.
             "However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture ofa human once heroic and sick.".
             Simon confronts it and thereby understands it.
             "'What are you doing out here all alone? Aren't you afraid of me?' Simon shook.".
             After Simon has confronted the beast he goes to the mountain, just like Moses, and learns the full truth about the beast; that it is only a dead pilot which all the other boys has made into something fearsome and evil. The irony of the book, and what also has happened a lot through history, is that Simon is killed when he returns to tell everybody about what he has learned. Like Jesus he is killed by those that do not understand him.
             Simon is also the prophet in the book.


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