Morals In Lord Of The Flies Essay

“Our greatest effectiveness is not found in being like the world; it is found in being distinct from the world, in being like Jesus” (Nancy Leigh DeMoss). The concept of being Christ-like is one lost on modern society; we as people stumble in following these grand morals in favor of our own personal wants and goals. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Golding demonstrates these modern priorities of morals through the main boys’ goals while stranded on the island. While on the island, the boys adopt jobs and a hierarchy of power. Due to these separations, the boys begin to form a sort of continuum between civilized nature and savagery. The two ends of this continuum are Ralph, who represents civilization’s priority of democracy and

In the Bible, Jesus has innate knowledge and abilities unlike others, especially those to do with God while in Lord of the Flies Simon knows who the beast is and who it will spare, or leave alive. When asked about the beast, Simon responds, "'I don't know,' said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. 'But...''What I mean is...maybe it's only us'" (Golding 89). Simon knows the beast isn’t real. While Ralph and Piggy have second thoughts at times, Simon proceeds to doubt the beast’s physical existence throughout the book, opting for its metaphysical existence. No one tells Simon this; he just knows. His innate knowledge also gives him the foresight to know who will make it out alive and who won’t. When Ralph started to feel hopeless, Simon told him, "'No, I'm not [batty]. I just think you'll get back all right'" (Golding 111). And as we see at the end of Lord of the Flies, Ralph is found and is presumed to be returned home, which means he did get back all right. However, Simon specifically says “‘...you’ll get back all right’”, meaning Simon knew he wasn’t going to get back, innately knowing his own death. Though Simon had another force eluding him to his