How Does Golding Use Imagery In Lord Of The Flies

Fear is like a dream, it is all in the head, or at least the biggest and worst fears. Golding uses a lot of imagery to describe how the boys see and think of the monster and other things they worry about. He then uses more imagery to describe how the actual item, event, or person looks and is like. This shows the difference between what they see in their imagination and the real thing. In the novel Lord Of The Flies the author, William Golding, uses imagery to convey his theme that the biggest fears are self developed and in one’s head.
At a meeting between all the boys, Jack brings up the topic of a possible beast; they all argue about whether or not there is a beast or not. First, Piggy asks “What would they eat?” and they reply “pig” (Pg.83). Then, Jack talks about how his hunters “talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal” (Pg.83). “I saw something moving among the trees, something big and hored’’(pg.85). None of the boys actually have any proof behind what

At the meeting, Sam and Eric describe the beast; they say it has eyes, teeth, and claws and that it chased them and almost touched them (pg.100). “It was a fury. There was something moving behind his head-wings. The beast moved too-” Sam told everyone (pg.100). Earlier in the chapter Golding describes the figure that Sam and Eric thought was the beast as a body that parachuted down from the war above and is caught in their parachute (pg.95). Golding describes that the parachute pulls when the wind blows and the chest and the head of the body rise and fall with the wind (pg.96). Sam and Eric talk about all the things they thought they saw on the beast but Golding does describe the actual body which includes none of the teeth, claws, wings or any of that. The boys are working this whole beast thing up in their imagination and they really are truly scared that there could be a beast and they are convinced there