The good always implies those aspects which are morally positive and is sometimes viewed as whatever entails reverence towards life, continuity, happiness, or human flourishing. Good appears in all Golding's novels, but in each embodying a different character, object, feeling, etc. Golding himself associates the instinct of civilization with good.In The Spire it mostly embodies Jocelin's angel, the angel that comes to save him, to warn him or to torment him. It also appears in Pincher Martin named “the centre” or in Darkness Visible, “the elders”.
In Chevalier’s Dictionary of Symbols the angels are seen as “entities purely spiritual or spirits that possess an airy body” (Jean Chevalier, vol. 2, 1969:170). They are also considered to embody “signs that bring the Sacred” ( ibidem: 170). Aristotle sees the angels as being the souls of the stars, each of them taking care of the movement of every star. But in most of the religions, the angels are the messengers of God and they are “always the carriers of good news for the soul” (ibidem: 172). In the Bible, angels are a medium of God's power; they exist to execute God's will. Angels reveal themselves to
individuals as well as to the whole nation, to announce events, either bad or good, affecting humans. Angels foretold to Abraham the
birth of Isaac, the destruction of Sodom, to Manoah the birth of Samson.
Guardian angels were mentioned, but not, as was later the case, as guardian spirits of individuals and nations. God sent an angel to protect the Hebrew people after their exodus from Egypt, to lead them to the Promised Land, and to destroy the hostile tribes in their way.
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