Humans seek experience constantly, since experience is power, but what happens when a person has low experience, that power turns to fear. In the novel, “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding, Jack, Simon and Ralph’s tribe, face fears based from inexperience, in the form of the Beast. William Golding’s reference to the Beast captures the fear all beings have of the unknown, which lessons as they become more experienced. Jack, an autocratic leader, commands his tribe with a powerful image to ensure no thoughts of mutiny within his tribe, even though he is perceived as a strong character he is still susceptible to his own personal fears, such as the Beast. Earlier within the text Jack believes that the Beast is an animal that can be just hunted and killed. Jack states within the text, “We’re strong - we hunt! If there’s a …show more content…
We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat-” (Golding 99)! After the tribes success with hunting the pig, Jack feels confident, but not capable enough to ‘kill’ the Beast on his own. Jack states to the group that we will hunt Beast as group, which is a similar statement to when they hunted the pig. Jack fears the Beast because he has not experienced the presence of the Beast prior to the statement. Jack along with the some hunters from within his tribe, leave a gift for the Beast as a peace offering. Jack states, “This head is for the beast. It’s a gift” (Golding 151). Jack along with other hunters from his tribe believe that if they were to gift the Beast with the head of a pig it would potentially make peace with their tribe. The Beast infests fear into Jack along with others because all the children within the island have never witnessed such a challenge. Following the gift of the pig's head Jack states his beliefs on the Beast's powers. Jack states within the text, “I expect the beast disguised itself” (Golding 178). Jack along with