Lord Of The Flies - The Beast
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... convince themselves that the evil on the island did not come from within them. It must be noted that this is a subconscious search; none of the boys, with the exception of Simon, had realised that the evil came from within them. Moreover, it was dark when the dead pilot was discovered, therefore he was not seen as a man anyway. However, even if it had been light, he still would have been seen as the beast. When the search party, formed to confirm the existence of a beast, discovered the dead pilot, it was also dark, and this unfortunately made him seem to be a giant ape, thereby confirming the boys' worst fears.
The Lord of the Flies represents Beelzebub, a manifestation of Satan. It is this manifestation, in the form of a pig's head on a stake, which appeared to speak to Simon in the forest, while he was enduring one of his epileptic fits. Golding uses this to confirm to the reader Simon's a ...
