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Simon Lord Of The Flies Beast Analysis

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In the book The Lord of the Flies , Simon states that “maybe … there is a beast …. What I mean is … maybe it’s only us” ( p. 89 ). What Simon said is that the boys thought that there was a beast on the island, but in reality, the beast was the boys’ inner self. Throughout the book, the boys have been convinced that there is a beast waiting in the shadows. Although this “beast” is what motivates the boys to jump into action, the boys do not realize that the real beast lies within each one of them. Inside all of the boys, there is a beast that has been dormant throughout their lives, but now that they are without adult supervision for an extended period of time, each beast has broken out of their internal shell. After the boys first land on the
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