Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding makes several references that link the story and characters to the Bible. The main character, Simon is Christ like, his life and actions can be paralleled to Christ’s life. Golding often uses symbols and rituals similar to those in the Bible. Golding himself appears to be Christian, his knowledge of the Bible and religion are clearly incorporated in this novel.
Simon is known as selfless and loves all people, just as Christ was. (Kruger) In his essay the critic Leighton Hodson, The Metaphor of Darkness, notes, “The particular quality of Simon is to be a lover of mankind, a visionary, who reaches commonsense attitudes not by reason but by intuition' as Golding himself states” (Hodson 87). This shows Hodson describing Simon’s Christ like characteristics. He went on to say, Simon feeds “littluns” fruit, this is much like Christ feeding and tending to other people’s needs (Hodson 94). It is easy to make the connection that Simon is a Christ like figure, Golding purposely made him this way. (Kruger) …show more content…
At one point in the novel Golding appears to describe heaven, “Up there, for once, were clouds, great bulging towers that spouted away over the island, grey and cream and copper-colored. The clouds were sitting on the land; they squeezed, produced moment by moment this tormenting heat […]. There were no shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition.” (Golding 230). The critic Fitzgerald noted, the Beastie, the snake like thing in the boys mind, draws similarities to the serpent of the Garden of Eden. Diane Henningfeld made the observation, the story of Ralph and Jack mimics the story of the brothers Cain and Abel from the Bible. (Henningfeld). Each of these analogies from Lord of the Flies to the Bible provides strong evidence of the religious themes in this
Simon is known as selfless and loves all people, just as Christ was. (Kruger) In his essay the critic Leighton Hodson, The Metaphor of Darkness, notes, “The particular quality of Simon is to be a lover of mankind, a visionary, who reaches commonsense attitudes not by reason but by intuition' as Golding himself states” (Hodson 87). This shows Hodson describing Simon’s Christ like characteristics. He went on to say, Simon feeds “littluns” fruit, this is much like Christ feeding and tending to other people’s needs (Hodson 94). It is easy to make the connection that Simon is a Christ like figure, Golding purposely made him this way. (Kruger) …show more content…
At one point in the novel Golding appears to describe heaven, “Up there, for once, were clouds, great bulging towers that spouted away over the island, grey and cream and copper-colored. The clouds were sitting on the land; they squeezed, produced moment by moment this tormenting heat […]. There were no shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition.” (Golding 230). The critic Fitzgerald noted, the Beastie, the snake like thing in the boys mind, draws similarities to the serpent of the Garden of Eden. Diane Henningfeld made the observation, the story of Ralph and Jack mimics the story of the brothers Cain and Abel from the Bible. (Henningfeld). Each of these analogies from Lord of the Flies to the Bible provides strong evidence of the religious themes in this