Lord of the Flies Group

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vatoslocos13
vatoslocos13
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High School - 11th Grade

How was the “prophecy” of the Lord of the Flies fulfilled?

This question is from the book "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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Posted by vatoslocos13 on Sunday December 21, 2008 at 11:13 AM and tagged with lord of the flies, william golding.

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  1. ms-mcgregor Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    When Simon is hallucinating and supposedly talking to the pig's head, the head says that he (the evil) is inside of man and that is why they will never be able to eradicate it. Simon is the first to realize this when he says to the boys, "Maybe the beast is us." However, he loses sight of this perception and runs down the hill to tell the boys that the "beast" is only a dead parachutist. He, of course, is killed because he is mistaken for the "beast" during a ritualistic dance. Even after Simon is dead, the evil continues to be part of the boys and eventually, Piggy is killed and the boys almost succeed in killing Ralph. The reason the evil continues is that it is innately part of the boys. There is no strong government or leadership to control it and so it is left to take its natural course, as the pig's head or "Lord of the Flies" predicted.

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    Posted by ms-mcgregor on Sunday December 21, 2008 at 11:34 AM