Lord of the Flies
Chapter Eight: Gift for the Darkness
In this chapter Jack announces that there is indeed a beast, and that Ralph is a coward, and therefore unfit to lead the group. However, when the rest of the boys refuse to vote him out, Jack decides to leave the group and invites anyone who would like to join him. Jack's group kills a pig and impales the head of the animal on a tall stake in the ground as an offering to "the beast."
Later, Simon goes back to his favorite clearing in the forest where he likes to be alone and sees the pig's head which is now swarming with flies. Simon imagines "The Lord of the Flies" speaks to him in a threatening tone and frightens him. Simon faints.
Here is a link to the audio. Chapter eight starts at 4:07:00.
Reread the "The Lord of the Flies" speech to Simon, and in the comments section below tell me what you think it means.
Test your knowledge of chapter eight by taking this online quiz.
Later, Simon goes back to his favorite clearing in the forest where he likes to be alone and sees the pig's head which is now swarming with flies. Simon imagines "The Lord of the Flies" speaks to him in a threatening tone and frightens him. Simon faints.
Here is a link to the audio. Chapter eight starts at 4:07:00.
Reread the "The Lord of the Flies" speech to Simon, and in the comments section below tell me what you think it means.
Test your knowledge of chapter eight by taking this online quiz.
7 comments:
Simon is in an internal feud. He is faced with the conundrum of believing to exist of the beast or not. He tells himself "Pig's head on a stick." He is trying to stop the inner voice und to come into the reality. On the other hand, this scene seems like the Simon's imaginative transformation into the beast: "His eyes were half closed as though he were imitating the obscene thing on the stick."..."Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness."
Samon lost himself completely. He doesn't understand where reality is and where not. It seems to him that the pig's head speaks to him and threatens him. From this, Simon loses consciousness, he has blood from his nose.
At that moment, Simon is under very bad conditions. He has hallucination about the beast ( The Lort of the Flies ) is talking to him.
The beast is in the mind of us. Human is terror than the beast.
Simon is having a revelation through a day dream about how he cannot stop the savage instincts that all boys are developing. The lord of Flies mocks Simon as a “silly little boy” who thinks he can capture the beast that “you could not hunt or kill” that means wishes that all kids have to enjoy and do fun things and no longer follow rules “We are going to have fun in this island, do you understand? So don’t try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else…” Simon knows all children are becoming beasts, however he tries to warn others and for that reason he is killed.
Manuel:
The speech means that the boys are in the hands of the fear and it is preyed on their minds. They have no scape, because the beast is inside and outside of them.
In my opinion I think Simon felt badly internally seeing so much savagery and this made him think what would happen in the future with the boy and the conversation between him and “The Lord of the flies “ was a premonition of something bad would happen.
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