In William Golding's allegory, the lord of the flies is
evil incarnate. :
The halfpshut eyes were dim with the infinite
cynicism of adult life. They assured Simon that everything was a bad
business.
The intuitive Simon
tells the lord of the flies that he knows. He tries to convince himself that what he
sees is a pig's head on a stick only, but he realizes that the pig's head is not the
real beast. The beast is the evil that is inherent in each of the
boys.
"Fancy
thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!" ...For a moment or two the
forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter.
"You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Cose, close, close! I'm the reason why it's
no go? why thingsare what they
are?
Symbolically Simon is
"inside the mouth"; he falls into the unconsciousness as he feels that he has been
swallowed by the terrible evil unleashed on the island. And, with the full emergence of
the sadistic Roger, evil is manifested. Later, Simon is beaten to death as the hunters
surround him and bludgeon him. All along Simon has felt the knowledge of Beelezebub in
the hearts of the boys; however, when he tries to communicate this to Ralph and the
others, he becomes incoherent and is later killed.
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