Some things mean and stand for something more than what they literally are, they are called symbols. The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is about a group of British boys getting stranded on an island, they begin making their own civilization at first but slowly conflicts arise and everything falls apart resulting in two dead bodies and one missing. In the end the boys are rescued but by then they have lost innocence. In this novel, many things, objects and ideas, are given more meaning than they have in a literal sense. In real life an example of a symbol may be a handshake, a handshake may symbolize respect, peace, and it is a type of greeting. With that said, there is a couple significant symbols in the book. Without these symbols the novel may have had a much different outcome, that’s why they are very important to the novel as a whole.
One of the first important symbols to appear in the story was the conch. The conch was discovered by Piggy and Jack when they had first started about on the island.
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Simon speculated this and never believed in the beast. He believed the reason the kids feared the beast was because it was in everyone one of them. The beast was the evil and savagery within each of the boys, not a physical monster that had sharp teeth and claws as Samneric said. “Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt for a flicker of incredulity-a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountaintop, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick” (93). This quote shows the point where Simon realizes that the beast is actually not real and that, as stated before, the beast is the evil within humans. Simon recognizes that the beast is really just the boys