The Lord of the Flies is meant to symbolize evil, in the boys and all humanity, and the devil. The author does a very good job of showing how the Lord of the Flies represents this. The Lord of the Flies is what causes the evil in the boys, or so it seems from what is said during the Lord of the Flies one actual appearance in the book (pages 143 and 144). During this appearance the Lord of the Flies is given shape and voice by Simon's mind. This hallucination is caused by Simon's epilepsy, because he is about to slip into a seizure while the conversation between the Lord of the Flies and Simon is going on. The Lord of the Flies said that if he told the other boys the truth "we shall do you" (pg. 144). To me the Lord of the flies saying we means that he and the other boys will be the ones to kill Simon, but the Lord

So once the Lord of the Flies, or the evil, had begun to gain control of all the boys left living it pretty much controlled the island. Because it controls the island's only inhabitant's it must control the island, because the inhabitant's of the island are the only one's that can make changes on the island. Changes that include changing the population of the island. So if the island is a microcosm of the world that means that if given the chance evil will overtake all but those who are protected by order, society, and democracy, like the boy's were until they turned away from the conch and finally destroyed it.

of the Flies is not an actual being, so he must represent something in the boys. The only thing that he could represent in the boys that would give him an actual part in the killing of Simon is the evil that has begun to overtake the boys.

The Lord of the Flies is also what many of the other objects of symbolism really are. The Lord of the Flies comes right out and states that he is the Beast. This makes a lot of sense because all the beast was was the evil in the boys and their fear of the evil in each other, and possibly themselves too. It's quite ironic how many of the things that the Lord of the Flies represents tie in with each other. The Lord of the Flies is the beast, which is really just the evil in the boys. It was the evil in the boys that left the pigs head on the stick as a sacrifice to appease the beast, which is just the evil in themselves. So the boys, in

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