Simon traveled to the mountaintop as a symbolic journey to
learn the truth about the beast. In Lord of the flies, Simon
was a religious figure that wanted to spread truth and enlightenment
to the other children. In the Bible it was Jesus, alone, who
understood the knowledge of God's will. Simon was alone in his
understanding of what the beast really was. Simon was unique because
he could actually hear the voice of the beast of the island. Simon
realized the beast was not something that could be killed. Simon
realized that the beast lived inside the other boys. Simon was the
first to understand that the beast the children were so afraid of
was really just a dead parachutist. Simon wants to explain the death
of the parachutist to the other children so they can stop worrying
about it and being so afraid.
In The Lord of the Flies it was Simon, alone, who
possessed the truth about the beast. The other children
misunderstand Simon just like Christ was misunderstood in the Bible.
The other boys believed Simon was crazy, but he was the only one to
discover the truth about the beast. Simon was the Savior of the
other boys but they did not know it. Simon was murdered, like Jesus
Christ, while trying to deliver the spiritual truths about the
beast. After the boys killed him, Simon was washed out to sea with
glowing fish around his head, signifying a halo. The truth of
Simon's message may not have occurred to the children until after
they murdered him and by then he would be martyred like a prophet
and a saint that he represented.
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