i dont understand this question the teacher gave to us:
Describe some ways the vision of a human "at once heroic and sick" (CH.6) is represented in the novel and withing the larger context of history as well. Does Golding prescribe a remedy for the "sickness"?
I believe the reference is to Simon. He is heroic because he dares go out into the jungle when no one else does. He openly says he doesn't believe in the Beast. He is sick because he is epileptic, which the boys do not understand, but they see that he is different. Simon is the one boy who says they need to climb the mountain, i.e. face their fears. He is the one boy who does climb the mountain and discover the dead pilot, which is "harmless and horrible." As he tries to tell the boys the truth, their own Beast overtakes them and they destroy the "beast" (Simon) and with it the truth. This is mankind's "remedy" for perceived "sickness."
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