The “Lord of the Flies” is a severed sow’s head on a spear, after Jack and his hunters kill it in Chapter 8. In the same Chapter, Simon confronts the Lord of the Flies in a hallucination, where he is told that every person has the “beast” within themselves. The Lord of the Flies is a stark contrast to Simon’s character. While the Lord of the flies is dark, evil, and near Satanic, Simon is Christ-like, with an especially kind disposition. The Lord of the Flies is the symbol of power and evil, that provokes people like Jack to turn toward savagery and violence. The pig’s head is symbolic because that is what Jack craves to hunt, since it makes him feel powerful. “Flies” in “Lord of the Flies” refers to the frantic and disturbing swarms of flies that surround dead corpses. “Lord of the Flies” also directly translates to the biblical name Beelzebub, who was the Lord of Death, also thought of as Satan.