The Beast Within It is never taken into consideration when someone is stranded and alone with no rules, how much it will change a person’s mental state, and what possible beast can be unleashed from within them. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of schoolboys crash land into a deserted island with no resources aside from their humanity and each other. No adults had survived the plane crash; this meaning they have the freedom to do anything they please with no rules or consequences. With no rules comes a big price to pay, and the price is one’s sanity. The boys being on the island show that when there is no guidance under the minds of children, this will corrupt their mental state leading them to corrupt morals. When Simon comes back to tell the rest of the boys about how the thing they thought was a beast is actually a dead parachutist, this leads to the boys viciously killing Simon in which they think he is the beast. The boys spot Simon, which they think is the beast, and come after him trying to kill him and “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, and tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”(Goulding, Lord 153). This shows that they did not hesitate to stop being brutal with this being whether they did or did not know it was Simon, it was still a living thing, showing that they have such a strong …show more content…
The boys on the island are becoming more savage with there being no structure and rules for what their lives have come to. Within these thoughts, it brings people to