Analyze the Lord of the Flies (the pig's head on a stick) as a symbol in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.

Theis
the name of the severed pig's head
thatplaces on a sharpened stick as a sacrifice to the beast.
In chapter
8,visits his secluded spot in the forest where he discovers the ominous severed
pig's
head in the middle of the clearing. Golding describes the Lord of the
Flies as a menacing pig's
head covered in black iridescent flies that seems
to have an unsettling grin.

When Simon stares at the Lord
of the Flies, he experiences auditory hallucinations as
the severed pig's
head begins to speak to him. The Lord of the Flies confirms Simon's belief

that the beast is not a tangible creature which can be killed and warns him about
interrupting
the boys' "fun" on the island. The Lord of the Flies also
informs Simon that there is
nothing he can do to stop the savagery taking
place. After listening to the Lord of the Flies,
Simon loses
consciousness.

Symbolically, the Lord of the Flies represents
the
presence of evil on the island and inside each boy. The severed pig's
head on the stake also
allegorically represents Satan. Beelzebub is another
name for the devil, which translates to the
Lord of the Flies. Given that
Simon is a symbolic Christ figure in the story, his interaction
with the Lord
of the Flies alludes to Satan tempting Jesus in the wilderness.

This scene is significant because the Lord of the Flies confirms Simon's
knowledge of
mankind's essential illness and foreshadows his death. Simon is
the only boy who truly
understands the identity of the beast, which is
humanity's inherently evil
nature.