An imaginary“Beast”, haunting and terrifying. What does this “Beast” from Lord of the Flies? Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. The novel takes place on an unnamed island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. On that island, a group of school had crashed after having their plane shot down during World War Two when evacuating their school.
What is the definition of the“beast”? After World WarⅡ, a group of boys become stranded on an island. With their pilot (the only adult) dead, they immediately construct an authority order along with a system of rules. Throughout the story, Lord Of The Flies, the boys believe there is a beast, the question here is “what is the beast?” One of the meanings of the beast is fear itself.
By saying the beast is alive atop the mountain and that it’s a hunter Jack uses fear to convince the boys that if someone like Ralph stays cheif they won’t be protected becuase he’s not a hunter. This is also shown after the ISIS terrorists attacks in France: “The coordinated attacks in Paris have fanned fears that terrorists could infiltrate the U.S. by slipping in among the refugees—as might have occurred in the case of one of the Paris attackers.” (Berman) This connects to “The Lord of the Flies,” becuase ISIS uses terorists attacks to impliment fear into peoples mindes in order to become stronger and more of a threat. Thanks to ISIS now “More than half of the nation 's governors—mostly Republicans—are now urging the federal government to keep Syrian refugees out of their states.”
When considering the beastie in the Lord of the Flies, Piggy and Simon's comments reveal that the boys' fear of the beastie could just be their own fears. Or, in other words, the beast on the island is them. Piggy first builds on this idea, saying that "I know there is no fear... Unless we get frightened of people" (Golding 84). Simon addresses this topic in a similar fashion to Piggy.
Lord of the flies and how this book shows how it takes courage to overcome fear. It's demonstrated in many ways. Through different actions with different meanings behind them. The boys were all stuck on an unfamiliar island and did what they had to do to survive. There were many times when the boys ran away from fear, but also many times when they used courage to overcome it.
Have you ever felt too scared to speak your mind because every time you do someone makes fun of you or calls you cruel names? Can you imagine getting stuck on an island with no adult to help me survive? Would you be able to survive? The book the Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding. In the beginning of the story a group of school boys from England are in a plane that crashes onto an island, but they all fell in different areas of the island.
Could it possibly just be the fears that the individual boys have? Or is it the darkness in each of their hearts? Therefore, in Lord of The Flies, is the beast just fear? Do the boys just imagine their worst fears because they are scared? Think about it, little boys stranded on an island with no one there to comfort them, for their nightmares are coming to life.
Which is stronger, hope or fear? Fear keeps you alive it tells you when to run. If you go for a walk and there is a man chasing you, would you run or keep walking and just hope that he leaves you alone? With hope you will always find times when you are overcome by fear. It is the hope of change that allows you to conquer the fear.
In the novels “The Lord of the Flies” and “The Chrysalids”characters are pushed to their limits, and they are driven to do things that they wouldn’t normally do, what drives them to do these things, is their fears. In both novels they fear a godly figure, and the unknown. The characters deal with their fear in similar ways. Finally, the Waknukians fear eventually lead them to their downfall, and the same thing goes for the boys in the “Lord of the Flies”.
Fear is an emotion that will destroy judgment. In the Ted talk she explains that the men of the Essex let fear control their decision which ended in their demise. The little boys on the island hide their fear in trusting their leader and determination for getting off the island. Fear is natural things that most people experience or over experience in the form of anxiety. This also is a good point made in the Ted talk “What Fear Can Teach Us” stating that our fear is just stories told by our imaginations.
Piggy explains this when he says, “I know there isn 't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn 't no fear, either" (118 - 119). They are unsure of what they should be fearing so they fear this beast because it embodies their fears. The beast comes a symbol of malice because they fear that something is threatening them. In reality there was never a best like they described. The closest thing to a beast was the parachutist, a “figure that hung with dangling limbs” after it crashed (136).
When comparing stories the reader may point out revelations about human nature. The two awesome stories, Lord of the Flies and The Most Dangerous Gameshow a motif of being trapped, and they show that being nice can be taken for granted. Lord of the Flies and The Most Dangerous Gameprove that people can behave like animals when it comes to survival. There are several different simalarities for the two trapped stories Lord of the Flies and Most Dangerous Game; however, the most significant would be the setting of the stories. For example when Golding was explaining what the island looked like.
Lord of the Flies is a passage into the very existence of humanity. The very last part of the book is full of rage and violence. The violence could be blamed on the lack of vital nutrients the boys where facing but more likely the motives of Jack and his party is related to the emotional impact of their stay on the island. The impact of the island and lack of adults lent to the overall outcome of their stay. Starting out the group of boys were scattered around the island and in tiny huddles of boys.
In their minds this is compared to the few small effects of leaving their money in the bank. Those who took their fear to the extreme and pulled all of their money out fared better than those who didn’t. Overreacting to fear remained part of human nature because of this. The stock market crash was a dominant source for the Great Depression, indicating that individual actions like pulling money from a bank can lead to the major world events, all driven by fear. The idea of the beast in Lord of the Flies creates a fear in the boys that is the motivation behind their actions.
This comes in the form of idealizing the beast’s appearance and tactics, considering it to be a reality, and finally acting upon superstition. In Lord of the Flies, the boys are so scared of the beast that it directly influences their actions, causing them to take alarming measures to the point where even older readers are appalled by the concept. The book perfectly demonstrates that fear can seriously drive someone to questionable and even foolish
