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Lord of the Flies: Simon, the Christ Figure
References to various religions in novels are made to help the
author illustrate to the reader the situation in which he has placed his
characters. In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses biblical
allusion to enhance the reader's perspective on the story. In events and
metaphors, t ....
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.... with claws that
scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was no
fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of the beast, there
rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and
sick. (103)
Simon has a direct premonition of one of the physical manifestations of the
Beast. He later finds that "the Beast" is a dead paratrooper. Christ was
also known to be a profit and to predict works of the Devil. Simon
predicting the instances of the beast conjures thoughtful feelings in him,
and leads Simon to contemplate his si ....
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