Lord of the Flies

In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, there are three characters portrayed in three totally different ways then they are in the movie: Jack, Ralph and Simon.

Simon is a Jesus like character, who is said to be kneeling down to the littluns giving them food, much like Jesus did. He is killed, after carrying down the ‘beast’ over his shoulder much like Jesus did carrying his cross. In the movie version of Lord of the Flies, Simon is not portrayed in quite the same way as Golding had intended. He doesn’t show up as much, so you don’t see all of his kindness. What you do see is him helping the captain, who ends up being the ‘beast’. The director of the movie has done this partly because of the setting of the movie. The book took place during the Second World War, with a bunch of British boys. Because the movie took place in the late 1980s and was with American boys, there was no way to have a dead pilot as a beast… ...