Simon Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis
Is Simon an important character or not? Write about his contribution to the novel and the methods Golding uses to show what Simon is like.
Golding uses many descriptions throughout the novel to tell us more about his characters. Simon, by the point of his death is shown to be an almost angelic figure. This essay will examine whether Simon can be said to be significant or not, and why Golding has created his character.
Simon starts the novel as a tiny weakling, who faints in the sun at the start of the novel. Jack says: ‘he’s always throwing a faint’. His rude language is typical of Jack, and Simon does appear to be deeply affected by things around him. However, later we see a different, stronger side of Simon. When everyone else runs off to bathe or play he stays behind to help Ralph with the shelters, and then afterwards picks fruit for the littleuns to eat, as it says in the quotation: “Simon …show more content…
Even before things have started to go too wrong, we can tell. He and his buddy Maurice destroy the littluns' sandcastles for no reason at all, "kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones. Maurice followed, laughing, and added to the destruction" (4.7-8). This goes way beyond not helping the kids pick fruit to straight up psycho behavior.
Roger doesn't become a murderous psychopath all at once. At first, he's held back by the "taboo of the old life" (4.14). While he throws rocks in little Henry's general direction, he doesn't actually throw themat the kid: "round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law" (4.14). For now. By the end, Roger has given in. He's the one who, with "delirious abandonment," drops the rock that kills Piggy.
Not convinced that Roger is bad news? Sam and Eric hint at unspeakable—literally—horrors, when they say: of Sam and Eric's
Golding uses many descriptions throughout the novel to tell us more about his characters. Simon, by the point of his death is shown to be an almost angelic figure. This essay will examine whether Simon can be said to be significant or not, and why Golding has created his character.
Simon starts the novel as a tiny weakling, who faints in the sun at the start of the novel. Jack says: ‘he’s always throwing a faint’. His rude language is typical of Jack, and Simon does appear to be deeply affected by things around him. However, later we see a different, stronger side of Simon. When everyone else runs off to bathe or play he stays behind to help Ralph with the shelters, and then afterwards picks fruit for the littleuns to eat, as it says in the quotation: “Simon …show more content…
Even before things have started to go too wrong, we can tell. He and his buddy Maurice destroy the littluns' sandcastles for no reason at all, "kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones. Maurice followed, laughing, and added to the destruction" (4.7-8). This goes way beyond not helping the kids pick fruit to straight up psycho behavior.
Roger doesn't become a murderous psychopath all at once. At first, he's held back by the "taboo of the old life" (4.14). While he throws rocks in little Henry's general direction, he doesn't actually throw themat the kid: "round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law" (4.14). For now. By the end, Roger has given in. He's the one who, with "delirious abandonment," drops the rock that kills Piggy.
Not convinced that Roger is bad news? Sam and Eric hint at unspeakable—literally—horrors, when they say: of Sam and Eric's