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 Simon | name means "listener"; rejected Christ-like figure |
| Ralph | name means "council"; holds meetings to foster togetherness and leadership |
| Jack | name means "one who supplants"; attempts to take over by force |
| Piggy | meant to represent the pigs on the island who are slaughtered by Jack's crew |
| Roger | name means "spear"; uses brute force whenever he pleases |
| Samneric | incapable of acting independently of one another, they act as one; names blend as together as novel progresses and they lose identity through fear of the beast |
| Scar | represents evil brought to the island; the "fall of man" |
| Island | represents paradise- Garden of Eden; has everything the boys could need- fruit, fish, fresh water |
| Conch | repesents Parliamentary Order- stable, democratic society |
| Piggy's Glasses | represent intelligent rational thought; a sign of supposedly civilized world |
| Huts | represent civilization and the civilized life of the group |
| Fire | represent rescue and hope |
| Jungle | represent the dark side of man; the darkness of the human spirit |
| Painted Faces | cover up for doing evil; act as masks; hides identity |
| Parachutist | represents the evil that has triumphed in the adult world; sign from the grownups; scapegoat of society |
| Lord of the Flies | represents evil; superstition; fear; the sin of gluttony associated with Beezlebub; he rules over excessive eating and drinking (what Jack offers to the tribe); the glutton lives to eat- a state that soon escalates to forgetting gratitude |
| the Beast | begins as fear of littluns; then parachutists; then head of dead pig becomes emblem of evil society on island; simon recognizes it as "only us"; killed before revelation made known; irrational fear leads to savagery |