Lord of the Flies Character Analysis Essay (Simon)

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Is everybody born purely good inside? Or are we all filled with certain amounts of good and evil? In Lord of the Flies by William Golding a plane full of school boys lands on a deserted island, killing all the adults. With no adult supervision or civilization the boys descend back into the madness and savagery that is human nature. In Lord of the Flies by william Golding his character Simon uses spiritual power by finding out what the beast really is, showing how he failed to warn the others, how his use of the power affected the book as a whole, and how spiritual power is in the real world. Simon uses spiritual power by finding out what the beast see what the beast really is. After Simon “[becomes] inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.” (Golding 89) to the other boys, he knows that they will not believe him if he just simply tells them about the Beast, so he knows that the only way they will believe him is if he finds proof. He also accepts that the boys might not believe him, which directly shows him using spiritual power by standing alone with his beliefs. Another way Simon uses spiritual power is when he shows innate goodness any way he can. One of the characteristics of spiritual power is that the power is derived from inner beauty and purity of thought and behavior. Simon shows this by truly caring about the boys, because that is just the kind, caring, sort of a person Simon is. He even takes care of the little ones that nobody really seems to care about. He “found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands” (Golding 138) Even knowing that the other boys think that he’s wacky he still tries to s... ... middle of paper ... ...lies, and yet still sick for bullying in the first place. Bullies while they might be horrible, turn out to be harmless when confronted, just like Simon when he confronted the Beast. In the end, even though he failed to inform the other boys of it, Simon through his use of spiritual power was able to recognize the truth. He stood strong against evil even though it consumed the island after his death. People can look to him as an example of how to act in real life. And to be honest, Simon is an important character to Lord of the Flies by William Golding, not just for all this, but because he is what every person should wish to be. In the book the others bully him because they do not quite understand him, but Simon in all reality is a role model for the world. Don’t you think that the world would be a much better place, if we all tried to act a little bit like Simon?

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