his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition", which shows Simon was falling to the darkness that was creeping over the boys. Simon’s insanity and confusion made it easier for the devil to speak to him and urge him to the dark side.
The author's clear intention was to state that evil is not an external force but an attribute that exists within us all, it is the 'darkness in man's heart.'
Simon is able to see things and have insights that the other boys are not capable of. In this case, he sees fear, violence, death. He realizes that there is some evil inside of everyone, as shown through the pig head. The pig represents part of the evil inside of Simon. Simon thought people were born with the evil inside their own minds. The evil that we cannot control it, but it will show through action.
In this chapter, the most significant of the quote is Simon has a realization about people's dark sides. He believed that evil beast hidden in every human. This idea arose when he saw Jack and a group of hunters to kill pig. They don't felt pity but want to kill it while it is realized that never survived, but they killed it with relish, and fun to see it die like torture. Simon was shocked at what he saw, and don't think children aged just 12 years be cruelty barbarians like this.
After he split from the group of Ralph, he went to the mountain alone and heat caused his hallucinations; he had a conversation with a pig's head named Lord of flies.
The sound is deep under the heart to tell him to hurry back to his friends and forget what he saw everything. The story happened all demonstrate the idea of each child, but most often expressed negative rather than positive.
This story, the reader sees that Jack's group as an agent of evil within the human mind can do everything to make yourself as big. Roger is a boy with dark side thoughts in his head all the time and who was behind the whole event. Jack is a representative of people with selfish ideas like the beat and think only of their own. Ralph's group as an agent of good deeds, Piggy is like the brain' s group he represents children who are intelligent and can solve the problem well.
While Ralph is a representative unintelligible, but sometimes may be thoughtful fun-loving but cherish what is correct. Simon, he is representative a true intelligent. He can know and understand the worst of men and he is very good and pure, and has the most positive outlook.
All men have both good and bad aspects in most cases will be displayed in the negative through actions and words. When people greed or envy each other it could leads to Kill each other die.