The idea of using a character as exemplication of the
theme of "Loss of Innocence," seems appropriate to the assignment which appears to have
a limitation placed upon it. In addition to using Ralph as mentioned so cogently, you
may wish to consider Simon, not so much as a real person, but as the intuitive power
which man has and refuses to listen to in his struggle for
power.
Remember that Golding's novel, Lord of the
Flies, is an allegory in which the main characters represent types in a
microcosm of a society that is removed from the perimeters of civilization. When the
beast with the mulberry mark disappears, for instance, no one bothers to look for him.
And, when Simon tries to speak of the evil within them--"Have you considered that it
might be us?"--they end up destroying him. Instead, the boys wish to give the evil that
their intuitive powers recognize some concreteness by saying the beast is in the sea, it
is on the mountain, etc.
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