Significance of Quote: The significance of the quote is that it defines when Simon has a realization about people's potential dark sides. He is beginning to believe that the evil beast resides in each and every boy on the island. How that every human being has the potential to be evil. This realization occurs after he sees Jack kill the pig and put it's head on the stake. Simon is horrified by what he witnesses. He then goes up to the mountain and out of a most likely a heat induced hallucination; he has this conversation with the pig head named Lord of the Flies.