Lord Of The Flies Fear Quotes

Fear is an unpleasant human emotion that is triggered when a perceived threat, likely to cause pain or distress, presents itself. It is a basic survival mechanism that signals when danger is present. It is an essential part of keeping safe from harm and threats. In Golding’s Lord of the Flies, fear is a persistent theme that occurs in each chapter of the infamous novel. The fear in the group of boys was displayed when they constantly cowered away from each other or a violent beast that they believed existed with them on the uncharted island. Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding addresses the ramifications of fear in his novel in the boys, individually and amongst the entire group as well. The boys continuously lost all sense of control when

“‘There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast’” (Golding 143). Despite being one of the few boys who did not believe in the beast, the stress and fear still got to Simon as he began to see decapitated sow’s head as the Lord of the Flies. According to the University of Minnesota, his brain must have perceived all of the fear in the group of boys as negative and remembered it when he was tired, causing him to imagine the Lord of the Flies character. This quote is an example of Simon’s brain reacting to the signals from the amygdala, instead of rational processing. “They became motionless, gripped in each other’s arms, four unwinking eyes aimed and two mouths open” (Golding 98). Their unwavering fear of the beast magnified their experience from merely seeing the movement of the dead paratrooper to seeing a threat and consequently caused them to experience the sight before them more terrifying. Moreover, their fear has caused them to become incapacitated, according to the University of Minnesota, as they did not run away immediately after seeing the paratrooper that they perceived as the beast. The effects of fear had affected the boys individually by showing how fear can easily distort reality. While the group of boys’ fear of the beast was perceived, it impacted their mental and physical

“There was a shout from beyond the thicket and then Ralph was running with the swiftness of fear through the undergrowth” (Golding 195). Like previously said before, fear is a basic survival mechanism that signals when danger is present. In this case, fear had saved Ralph’s life as it was the reason he was able to use his fight or flight response. When the danger of the situation Ralph was in escalated, the adrenaline of fearing for his life caused him to escape the threats that were after him. “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (Golding 153). In this quote, it speaks about how the group of Jack’s hunters managed to kill Simon, who was sadly seen as the beast that they all feared. Fear allows the body to release hormones that sharpen functions that might help the survival rate increase. The group of hunters’ fear of the beast allowed them to have the adrenaline and strength to face and defeat a threat that they deemed was most dangerous in their minds. When established that life indeed is in danger, fear becomes useful in different