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musicmaniac
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In Chapter 5 of "Lord of the Flies", what is the dangerous idea that Simon has?

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Posted by musicmaniac on Wednesday September 17, 2008 at 6:59 PM and tagged with chapter 5, characters, lord of the flies, plot, simon.

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  1. robertwilliam

    Simon's dangerous idea is that the boys themselves might be the true beast. He realises, but is too inarticulate to express, "mankind's essential illness": the fear and lack of spiritual power which creates an imaginary beast, and eventually, the need for violence, for a savage tribe, and for splitting up the civilisation into violent factions.

    Simon has realised what Golding himself calls, in the last paragraphs of the novel, "the darkness of man's heart".

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    Posted by robertwilliam on Wednesday September 17, 2008 at 7:04 PM