LOTF quote analysis
“What I mean is . . . maybe it’s only us”
This quote is said by Simon when all of the boys are discussing the beast. The big kids are trying to convince the littluns that there is no such thing as a beast. Simon says this but has trouble explaining what he means. Ralph gets angry with him because Ralph is trying to ease the littluns minds and Simon is telling them there is a beast, but it's inside all of them. What Simon means by this is that the real "beast" is the inherent human evil inside all of them. This evil is personified in the Lord of the Flies.
This quote is a turning point in the book. Human nature and the evil inside everyone is the central theme of the book, and the reader learns this whenever Simon tries to tell the group that the "beast" is human nature. Golding's view on human nature, from what we can tell, is very similar to that of Simon's.
This quote is said by Simon when all of the boys are discussing the beast. The big kids are trying to convince the littluns that there is no such thing as a beast. Simon says this but has trouble explaining what he means. Ralph gets angry with him because Ralph is trying to ease the littluns minds and Simon is telling them there is a beast, but it's inside all of them. What Simon means by this is that the real "beast" is the inherent human evil inside all of them. This evil is personified in the Lord of the Flies.
This quote is a turning point in the book. Human nature and the evil inside everyone is the central theme of the book, and the reader learns this whenever Simon tries to tell the group that the "beast" is human nature. Golding's view on human nature, from what we can tell, is very similar to that of Simon's.
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