An emotion experienced by every human being is fear. Angst changes a person’s behavior, mind state, and actions. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the boys are guided by fear. They do not unite together to overcome fearful situations and let their own worst impulses dominate.
To begin with, Simon speculates that the beast is only the boys themselves. There is an lucid idea of evil being on the island, however, it is only their fear suffusing. Simon states, “There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast. . . . Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are?” (Salinger 143). In other words, Simon believes that the invidious beast is inside them. Simon has to tell everyone what he knows. Simon was on his own and was facing the fear of the beast all by himself. The others did not help him, he goes alone. The Lord of the Flies identified
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He was frightened when he was cornered in the thicket with all the other boys around him. He was scared that they were going to try and hunt him. Ralph did not know what was going to happen to him. Ralph takes action, “In panic Ralph thrust his own spear through the crack and struck with all his might” (Golding 184). Ralph was thinking that he could fend them off and they would back off. However, this drove the other boys to believe Ralph was vicious. Normally Ralph would not have fought back, he would have used words to reason it out. However, since he was scared he fought back. Also, he attacked another boy when he was escaping from the bushes. After he hurt the second boy he fled as fast as he could. The fear of being attacked took his brain over, he started attacking his own. Thus, fear guides humans because Ralph had an adrenaline rush when he was frightened, leading him to hurt his own