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In the novel, the clearing where Simon goes to be alone can be portrayed as the Garden of Eden because it is sacred and untouched. However, the Lord of the Flies is a symbol of Beelzebub which, loosely translated, makes "lord of flies". Therefore, if the Lord of the Flies is Lucipher/ Satan/ the Devil, Simon becomes Jesus (not totally) because of his confrontation with evil and chaos. Other characters could parallel Jesus. Piggy, for example, sought to bring reason in a time of chaos. However, the reference to Simon confrontation with the Lord f the Flies is the most Biblical.
Nathan is right when he refers to Simon as a representative of Christ. Simon was the innocence on the island, he was the only one who was not involved with the savagery. He dies trying to tell everybody the truth, and to a certain extent, he tries to save everybody from the evil of the lord of the flies. Of all the characters in lord of the flies, Simon is the fittest figure of Christ.
Nathan and Amy are both right. In the Lord of the Flies, I also agree that the Christ figure,is Simon, and that the pig's head is the devil. When simon dies, there was a big storm, very similar to the moment when Jesus died, and there was this big earthquake, thunders, and the vail in the temple ripped in half, like giving off a sign, that a very important event had just happened.
I agree with all of them. Simon is in the form of the Christ because Simon was the only one who wanted peace in the island. He wanted everyone to get along. He also sacrificed himself to make everyone feel safe. After Simon talked to the head, he felt very sick and everything in his body hurt. Still, he went to search for the beastie that was scaring all the boys and making them become violent. When he got to know that the beast was a dead body, he was very happy to tell all the boys. Unfortunately the boys were in their savage state and killed young Simon.
I agree with what all of them had said. In the begining Simon is just seen as a character that is not given much importance, but later on he is revealed as important for dealing with the Lord of the Flies. The Lord of the Flies is the embodiement of evil and chaos in the island, which can basically be generalized into a figure sort of like the ¨devil¨, Simon, confronts the evil, as Nathan said, which gives a sense of holliness and makes him seem most likely to be a christ figure.
Everyone has detailed on how Simon is the character of the Lord of the Flies that could represent the figure of Christ. I want to go back to what Nathan said about Piggy also possibly being able to represent Christ too. Even if Simon is with no doubt the main representative of Christ, "Now it touched the first of the stains that seepped from the broken body and the creaturs made a moving patch of light as they gathered at the edge" (154). This imagery makes it seem like Simon was some defeated saint. The difference between Piggy and Simon is that Simon was way more pacific than Piggy in the way that when he spoke he was timid and he was a shy fighter, though he never gave up on trying to help everyone else out. Piggy, on the other hand was a bit more agresive in his fight to be heard. In the end though, I agree with what everyone else has said, Simon it the Christ figure in "The Lord of the Flies".
Like most of the people have said, the Lord of the Flies is a representation of the devil in that island. I agree that the Christ figure in this book is Simon. Like Christ, Simon was the person who seeked for the truth.
When Simon speaks to the Lord of the Flies, it was like Christ talking to the devil and that is Simon trying to understand what the Lord of the Flies was saying when it said to go back with the other boys. It was like the devil telling him to go into savegry and to fall into temptation.
I agree with what everyone has said about Simon being the most suitable representation of Christ. He is the only who did not give into the loss of the innocence and even tried to protect the group from the lord of the flies and his evil.
I agree with everyone, especially Nathan. Simon stands in between the two opposite poles that are Jack and Ralph. But there are also many things that make Simon not completely a christ figure. His death does not bring any kind of salvation to the island and is killed when he was going to tell the truth. Jesus was killed for spreading his moral philosophy.
I agree with everyone because Simon is representing Jesus because he helps Jack and Ralph and he is a quiet leader. When he talks to the pig that simbolizes when Jesus cures the people and everybody is staring at him.
As most of the people mentioned above, the most Biblical scene in the novel is the scene in which Simon talks to "The Lord of the Flies".
Simon symbolized innocence and goodness. He was a quite leader, and he was always willing to help others.
However, I also believe Piggy could have been a Christ figure in this story.
As nathan said, he "brought reason in a time of chaos" and he looked ahead at things.
Yes, I mostly agree with all of the above. It's true that Simon is portrayet as a Christ figure in The Lord of the Flies. We can say this is true, because he is really compreensive to everything that is happening in the island. Apart from the things mentioned above, Simon is able to understand what things are happening, why are they happening, what is their cause, and the truth about each of does events - like the barbaric actions of the boys.
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