Simon

Question 1

Simon context

Answer 1

• human super ego
• name of Jesus’ diciple

Question 2

super ego

Answer 2

acting for the greater good

Question 3

Simon’s characteristics (2p)

Answer 3

-Christ-like qualities
- Only one who recognises the beauty of the island

Question 4

“Skinny vivid boy” & “throwing a faint”

Answer 4

• He is sensitive

Question 5

“Like candles. Candle bushes. Candle buds”

Answer 5

• He is describing the plants in the forest
• Candles= light, spiritual symbol, used in darkness
• Repetition of religious/light imagery
• He recognises the beauty of nature as God’s creation
• This is unlike the other boys who fear the forest and what they believe lurks within

Question 6

“Like candles. Candle bushes. Candle buds”
CONTEXT

Answer 6

CONTEXT= William Golding was deeply influenced by his faith and Christian-like values
- Superego (Freudian psychoanalysis)

Question 7

“His eyes so bright”

Answer 7

-Pure

Question 8

“You’ll get back alright. I think so anyway”

Answer 8

• Ominious
• foreshadows his own death
• Comforting Ralph

Question 9

“We used his specs”…“Ae helped that way”

Answer 9

• When the fire is made
• Simon is depicted as kind and generous towards Piggy

Question 10

“Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach”…“The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit” (4p)

Answer 10

• Simon is helping the littluns
• Parent-like figure
• Inscrutably= the don’t understand him
• Simon is different to the other boys on the island

Question 11

“Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach”…“The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit” (CONTEXT) (2p)

Answer 11

• Reminiscent of Jesus feeding the 5000 in the bible
• He is a Christ-like character

Question 12

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us” (3p)

Answer 12

Maybe= tentative language, he is unsure, reminder of Simon’s lack of confidence, unsure how to word his thoughts
Beast= symbol of evil
- Simon is the first one to understand the truth

Question 13

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us” (CONTEXT)

Answer 13

CONTEXT= Golding believed that evil is an inherent part of human nature and is within us all
- The beast represents the primal instincts and destructive impulses that civilization strives to suppress

Question 14

“His inward sight the picture of human at once heroic and sick” (5p)

Answer 14

• Juxtaposing ideas
• Duality of humans
• Simon has the ability to reflect inwardly on the souls of people
  Heroic=greatness, brave, determined
  Sick= illness, terrible evil

Question 15

“His inward sight the picture of human at once heroic and sick” (CONTEXT)

Answer 15

• Josef Mengele who was a doctor (a job meant to help people), was a Nazi and conducted inhumane medical experiments on prisoners in the concentration camps
• Anyone is capable of evil