Lord Of The Flies

In the lord of the flies, Golding wanted to show his readers that there is no such thing as

innoce
nce, even in the young. Clearly in the text, the first evidence of conflict between Ralph and Jack

manifested itself in the argument they had who was going to keep the fire burning. Respecting order

and pursuing survival desires rather than pleasure was rejected by Jack. Humans follow their instin
cts

when they have no technology or the pleasures of today to help them establish their survival pa
ttern.

The lord of the flies (the pig's head on a stick) was the symbol of everyone's subconscious
fear of the

unknown.

In the text innocence, as we know it, was violated through the first major co
nflict over survival.

Ralph wanted to keep the fire going to hope for rescue while Jack pursued his
carnal desires to go out

hunting whether for survival or pleasure not known. If innocence does exi
st, then one of them would

have sacrificed his personal emotional desires for the other, but becaus
e instincts supersede innocence,

innocence disappears.

Simon represented the subconscious truth th
at lied hidden disguised in the depth of every human

emotion. The theme conveys that an evil essenc
e lurks in every man that can be brought out given

certain circumstances. Simon, whose character wa
s depicted as being different from the other boys,

was able to recognise, confront and ultimately g
et destroyed by the evil in man's heart. Simon was able

to recognise that the evil on the island w
as in the hearts of the boys. When Sam n Eric conjured up an

evil image of the beast on the hill,
Simon identified the evil and he imagined a different form, the true

image. "However Simon thought
of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human

at once heroic and sick." (
Golding, 103) Simon can see through the evil description of the beast and see

what it really was, a
dead soldier. Simon discovered...