Quotation 3rd Quarter

“This head is for the beast. It's a gift.” Chapter 8.

Ralph is now treating the beast as a god. He offers the pigs head for a gift almost as if to ask for more savagery and cruelty. The head also becomes a god to Simon who hears it speak to him and says he will never be free. This is really the turning point for the book. After this Simon is killed by Jack and then Piggy Shorty after. To me this head represents evil so I picture a devil as the beast looming over the island moulding the kid’s minds.