Long Live Simon.

"At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws."
( Golding 153 )

Chapter 9 of The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding holds Simon's death, part of the climax. After realizing the beast is actually the cadaver of a parachutists, Simon eagerly runs to the others to warn them but the others mistakenly confuse Simon with the "beast." Scared out of their minds, the boys attack and kill Simon. The quote was said by the narrator when the boys first see Simon coming towards them in the dark. I chose this quote because Simon's death successfully awoken the audience's attention to how serious and dark human savagery is. The quote is contains dramatic irony, as we the audience know who they are attacking is Simon and not a beast, and a metaphor of teeth and claws, which refer to the immorality the boys posses. 

Analysis: The way Golding chose Simon's death to be is yet another similarity between him and Jesus Christ. They both were killed by people with unhuman behavior because they knew things because of a supernatural power about civilization. The metaphor stating the boys tore teeth and claws basically implies the killers were actually animals, causing this act to be an example of situational irony since the "humans" were trying to kill the "beast" but it resulted to be the other way around.