What is the “Lord of the Flies”? Following a fight between planes over the island, a paratrooper (伞兵) has fallen to earth and gotten caught up in the branches of a tree. He is found dead and thought by Jack and his hunters to be a monster. They then try to please this “monster”. Later a character called Simon finds a pig’s head that has been used by Jack and offered to the “monster”. He calls it the Lord of the Flies. The words are a translation of “Beelzebub”, which is a word for a demon (恶魔) from the Old Testament of the Bible. In the Christian tradition, this demon became Satan, or the Devil, God’s great enemy. Simon himself has seen the “monster” and understands that it is only a dead body. He also understands that the evil is not “out there” but in the boys themselves.