The Three Most Important Scenes In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

If you have ever read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, you would understand the difficulty behind selecting the three most important scenes. The plot consists of a group of schoolboys that become stranded on an island in the midst of a third world war. Golding uses a large variety of symbolism throughout the book to subtly mirror the boys’ gradual loss of sanity and humanity as they stay on the island. These are the key problems in the book, so it would make sense that among these scenes would be the most important to keep. For the three scenes most worthy of remaining in the book, I will do just that. The three most important scenes to keep in the book are the initial meeting, the death of Simon, and the death of Piggy. The first

Simon was one of the choirboys who was prone to fainting when something made him frightened or stressed. When he needed to escape the loud and annoying boys, he would sneak away to a clearing in the woods where he could observe nature and calm down. Unfortunately, during one of the hunts the boys went on, they killed a pig and left its head as an offering to the beast, in that clearing. When Simon returns after this, he is confronted by the Lord of the Flies and faints in terror. When he awakes, he realizes that the beast is simply a dead man with a parachute. He rushes to the beach to tell the other boys, and a frenzy ensues. The others, thinking that Simon is the beast, attack it savagely, using their nails and teeth to fight. Simon is eventually beaten to death and drifts away into the ocean. This scene is major because it is where the boys’ fear of the beast first has more power over them than the order that the conch represents. It symbolizes the turning point as they resort less to order and more to their instincts. The two main symbols in the book flip and the boys begin their descent into