Title In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses figurative language at the end of chapter nine to illustrate that Simon is liberated from the ruthless pain brought by the boys. Even since Simon was on the island, he was always an outcast by acting peculiar to them. Golding characterized Simon as innocent, and even in some cases Simon can be seen as a Jesus Christ figure. This can be seen after Simon was brutally murdered by the boys when they depicted him as the beast. He had a peaceful transition after his death and the boy’s party ceased. Simon’s body was near the water and the lights are “a streak of phosphorescence that advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed… the line… bulged about the sand grains and little pebbles; it held them …show more content…
The creatures end up encompassing Simon’s head in a circle, which can be representative of the halo commonly seen around the figure Jesus Christ. In art, a halo normally symbolizes a sacred or divine person, and as Simon was murdered for trying to help the boys, he can be seen as a holy and helpful person. While Simon’s body is lying near the water, the creatures move him slightly, which nudges his body fully into the water, causing him to float. After he was carried in by mysterious sea creatures, the “darkened curve of the world the sun and the moon were pulling, and the film of water on the earth planet was held, bulging slightly on one side while the solid core turned. The great wave... surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations” (154). This indicates that the island, the darkness of his life, is now leaving him. This can be connected to Christianity, when Jesus was hung from the cross, which made him rise into heaven. Simon is finally away from the people who persecuted him because he tried to speak out. When “the great wave” was surrounded by “inquisitive bright creatures”, this continues to show that Simon was the brightness of