In the boy’s heads, the beast is a source of the evil and darkness on the island on the island. Although, in reality,the beast is just a representation of the bad side of every person, which is causing the safety of the life on the island to quickly deteriorate. Simon begins to understand this concept even before his run in with the Lord of the Flies, and whilst a fight over how real the beast was, he trys to help the other boys come to terms with this idea. Anxiously, Simon explains to them, "Maybe, maybe there is a beast... What I mean is maybe it's only us" (p. 89). As a result to Simon's declaration, the other boys, who had finally come to a conclusion creating a moment of peace, immediately reignited their argument, more fiercely this time than the last.
Then, in Document F, Simon again comes to question what the beast really is. It states that Simon hesitantly says that “maybe the beast is us”. Meaning him and the other boys living on the island. When reading down further in Document F, there is a chant. “Kill the beast!
“Maybe, he said hesitantly, Maybe there is a beast. - I don’t know, but… - What I mean is… maybe it’s only us”, as stated by Simon (p. 89). This quote shows that the kids themselves are starting to become the beast that they dread exists. He was the only one who could prove that the beast was merely a myth, “a dead man on a hill”, says Simon (p. 152), trying to tell the others the truth.
He begins to see all the damage they have done to the island and begins to realize that overtime they will end up scarce resources. Simon is the only one who doesn’t become a complete savage. He doesn’t have any determination to destroy and kill animals, he just wants to survive and do it in a respectful manner. From the beginning of the book Simon seemed different from the rest, he has a distinct view on life and what needs to be done. Simon is the only boy to truly grasp that "the beast" is just all the negative, horrible aspects of
(Doc. F). At one point, Simon himself even claims “‘maybe there is a beast… What I mean is… maybe it’s only us,’” (Doc. F). The hostile behavior of the children themselves is demonstrative of the “beast,” showing how it symbolizes yet another concept.
This quote suggests that the beast is inside in each of the boys. Also, when Simon was about to tell the boys the epiphany he experienced, the boys thought he was the beast and killed him. This tragic occurrence manifests how the beast is
In the beginning of the novel, the beast is thought to be a figment of the littluns imagination. But as the reality of being stuck on an island becomes more clear to them the more acceptable the reality of the beast becomes. Simon is the one to truly doubt the existence of a beast, "What I mean is . . . Maybe it's only us . . ." (89), Simon proposes that the beast is only a creature made up in the minds of the boys.
In the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding the ultimate one responsible for the destruction of the island is Jack. In the novel Golding has wrote about how a group of british boys crashed on a plane and landed on a island where there are no adults,just little british boys stranded on a island .In the beginning one of the boys Ralph was the responsible leader where he knew what to do an how to manage. But of course there was this one cureles jealous boy that wanted to be a leader,the one in charge. Because of how ruthless and savage Jack was he took the fear that the boys had within them and used it against them to make them join his tribe which started the destruction of the island.
The boys believe the Beast is a large animal or a ghost. When a dead parachuter falls on the island, they assume that the parachuter is the beast. In contrast, Simon realizes the beast is only in their minds. He tells the boys, “what I mean is… maybe it’s only us”(89). As a result of believing in the Beast, the boys became more savage.
Some of the smaller children, when they first land on the island, begin to dream about a “beast” that haunts them in the night. When this is brought up at an assembly, Ralph rejects it, as do the other boys. Simon pipes up and suggests it may be “only us”. After this idea is challenged by the boys, Simon tries to explain, yet he “became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness” (Page 89). The beast is metaphoric of the crude feral nature within every human, though naturally more prominent in those who act on it willingly.
Simon is frequently shown alone and in reflection about the identity of the beast that the boys are afraid of on the island, and this is similar to how Jesus would reflect on humanity and salvation. After discovering the truth that the beast was actually a harmless dead man, Simon hurries to tell the boys, but they imagine him to be the beast: “Simon was crying out something about a dead man on the hill... the beast was on its knees in the center...crying out against the abominable noise.... the crowd surged after it... there were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (153).
Simon was the first to realize there was no actual beast on the island, and that it was only a dead man with a parachute. He believed there was no such thing as a beast on the island, and he helped the littluns believe it too by saying: "What I mean is... Maybe it 's only us." (89). Simon was trying to suggest the idea that the beast was only an illusion to the boys’, as it had been created only within their imaginations.
In Lord of the Flies, the only one who truly learns and discovers the truth about fear is Simon. On the island the group of boys discover that there may be a beastie. With this thought in their head, some of the boys like Jack have this insane thought of hunting it down. This thought later drives the group of boys to become obsessed about the beast. Simon knew the truth; “maybe there is a beast…what I mean is maybe it’s only us”(Golding 89).
(Golding, 77). Although the boys laugh at Simon’s idea, his belief conforms Golding’s idea that inner evil exists. The boys develop into the beast when they kill Simon. Simon was desperate to explain the unidentified creature on the mountain but the boys weren’t in the mood for listening to him. With his brutal murder by the other boys, chaos takes over civilized order on the island.
The year 10,191 is not all that different from life in recent times. There are religious forces making an impact upon the culture as well as strong opposing political forces both wanting to become the dominant power. The two powers are from two different planets and they both have the same goal, gain control of the spice melange. If one has control over the spice, then one also has control over the economy. Even though these two powers are huge, they still have one person above them called the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV.
