Fear In Lord Of The Flies

“His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, the knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long, satisfying drink.” Ralph and the boys crash-landed from a plane and woke up on an island and realized that they stuck with no way of getting out. Their only hope was to signal someone. As time marched on, almost all of the boys had become so savage-like that the few who remained with morals were in a fight for survival. Although all agree the story is one of survival, there is disagreement as to what the author, William Golding, was commenting was the cause of their irrational behavior. Some claim

In The Lord Of The Flies, the boys fear that they have evil desires they cannot control, have any consequences due to being on an island with no adults, and they fear that there is a beast on the island that is wanting to kill the boys. When the boys were afraid of admitting that there was a beast (evil) inside them and they needed to confront it and not just say that there is no beast inside they need to acknowledge that there was indeed this beast or evil desires inside and not outside. When the boys saw Simon, they were already in fear of the creature; they saw a figure in the dark that the boys thought was the beast and did not feel twice that maybe it was Simon so without thinking, they charged Simon and killed him. Sam and Eric were fighting alongside Ralph, but they got captured, and the two boys were afraid of what Roger would do to them if they did not join with him. They entered the savages in fear of Roger. Concern was not the only thing that had turned into evil or unleashes the beast inside of them but also the

There are three reasons why that flesh is one of the primary factors for the boys turning into savages in Lord Of The Flies. The other boys raided Ralph and Piggy's camp, and they took Piggy’s glasses so they couldn’t start a fire. Piggy died when the “savages” were in a big argument and Piggy was giving useful facts on how they needed to survive and not turn into savages one of the older boys dropped a bolder on his head and killed him. The final point was when the boys had turned into beasts and wanted to hunt and kill pigs all day mostly for the fun of it. It was not just the flesh and fear that had the boys turn into beasts but also