Beast In Lord Of The Flies

To begin with, the personalities of the boys Ralph, Jack, and Piggy on the island are each represented by the beast as the boys try to kill the beast. A representation

The Beast takes many forms in the boys' imaginations; once, they saw a strange shape moving at the top of a mountain, and they were afraid that it was the Beast. No one dared to go near it save Simon, who went alone to the mountaintop during one of his sojourns; he discovered that the Beast was only a dead parachuter whose gear shifted in the wind. Ironically, the dead man was a soldier, a symbol of the savagery that was the true Beast. However, Simon's compassion

Jack uses the beast to gain power and promises of protection for the boys; from the beast. Jack uses the boys’ fear of the beast to manipulate them to his own advantage. He knows it doesn’t exist; however he uses its hypothetical existence to ensure the compliance of the other boys and follow his commands. Fear is the source of Jack’s power. The other boys don’t flock to Jack for his personality or leadership; instead, they gather around him for the solace he promised them.

The twins start to say that the beast has both teeth and eyes and claws but they could not have possibly seen the beast that up close and personal without getting hurt or killed. The twins say, “It was furry. There was something moving behind its head- wings. The beast moved too-. That was awful. It kind of sat up. The fire was bright. We’d just make it up- more sticks on- There were eyes- Teeth- Claws” (Golding 100).This quote shows that if people believe the twins saw and found the beast, other kids may go and try to find it which can be very dangerous. This relates to the beast because if they saw the beast, why do they still believe Simon and Piggy when they say they should be scared of themselves or in all the boys on the island. While, Ralph and Jack both see it as a boar which is a totally different point of view than the twins. The text states, “That was not the beast. That was the boar. I hit him. Why didn’t you grab him?I tried” Golding 113) This quote shows that Ralph and Jack both see the beast as a pig which means it is not just one individual person seeing this, its two so more people may believe them more. This relates to the beast because it shows how all the boys on the island all have different point of views towards the beast and what it

Jack had tried to lead the inhabitants of the island by terror and savagery instead of by order and civilization when he had declared himself chief of his hunter-driven tribe. Both his lust for blood and lust for power had aided him in becoming the savage tyrant and an antagonist of the book. Jack’s widespread fear would not have been substantial enough to build his stature in the hierarchy if the “beast” was not included in the story. The beast has been portrayed to the readers as a dead parachuter from the world war happening beside them. The characters, however, had no clue about the outside world or the parachuter who fell on the island. Therefore, the beast became a part of their fear on the island. The beast was the main antagonist in the middle of the story. It caused the most discord in the already terror-ridden state of the boys. The internal fears of the characters, the feeling of terror towards the other characters, and the nightmarish imagination of the youth, had all shown the dominating abilities of fear taking over the vulnerable sense of

In the final analysis of the Lord of the Flies it is really the children who demonstrate who the beast is. They first to on the presence of overwhelming fear, which eventually becomes that of war and lastly the savage nation of mankind. Because these boys were left alone with no one to “ dispel the terrors of the unknown” it eventually lead to the true understanding of the

     Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel that represents a microcosm of society in a tale about children stranded on an island. Of the group of young boys there are two who want to lead for the duration of their stay, Jack and Ralph.  Through the opposing characters of Jack and Ralph, Golding reveals the gradual process from democracy to dictatorship from Ralph's democratic election to his lack of law enforcement to Jack's strict rule and his violent law enforcement.

because the boy’s imagination takes over while they are on the island.what does the beast symbolized

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is tale of a group of young boys who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Intertwined in this classic novel are many themes, most that relate to the inherent evil that exists in all human beings and the malicious nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the boys' gradual transformation from being civilized, well-mannered people to savage, ritualistic beasts.

Within a single day, the lives of a group of young boys, aged six to twelve, changed forever. After a plane wreck, the British children were trapped on a deserted island without adult supervision for months during World War II. The author of this story specifically chose to use young boys instead of girls because he felt boys better represented the savagery of mankind. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the beast first represents the boys’ imagination and fear, then a physical entity, and finally, the evil within everyone.

Further blinded by the illusion that their supposedly superior English heritage precludes savagery, the boys ignore the perverse qualities of their actions. Nevertheless, they become terrified as they increasingly feel the blight of their own evil upon the island. Attempting to attribute the decay of sanity and civilization to external sources, they fail to look inwards. When Simon correctly proposes that the beast is "maybe. . . only [themselves]" (89), the others scornfully dismiss him as "batty" (52) and his suggestion as invalid; they refuse to acknowledge Simon because they are neither capable nor willing to believe the frightening truth that the evil arises from within themselves. As a result, the boys manifest their fear in a dead parachutist whose appearance they grotesquely distort. Ironically, this source of fear comes from the majestic adult world to which they have so long

The beast acts as a symbol for the group’s horror when Sam and Eric think they see the beast and, “Then as though they had one terrified mind between them they scrambled away over the rocks and fled.” (107) The beast, truly being a made up creature brought to life through the fear of the group, make the group extra sensitive when anything is out of the ordinary. The thought of the beast not only conjures up fear, it brings in a sense of uncertainty. Through the alternating beliefs of the beast being real, the boys are left thinking, “I mean when Jack says you can be frightened because people are frightened anyway that’s all right.

Or you could say that the evil within each of the boys gave them fear of the beast, which lead to the chaos on the island. This evil manipulating the boys into fearing the beast is shown through Jack. On page 150 Jack states, “And my hunters will protect you from the beast.” Jack manipulates the kids into thinking the beast is a real thing and causes them to fear it. By doing this he shows the true evil inside him, causing him to manipulate the fear of the beast.

Throughout the entire novel, the boys try to determine and figure out who they believe is the beast that has worried them so much. The more time the boys are there, they progressively believe more and more in the beast. In the beginning of the novel, they do not even think of the beast at all but towards the end they start to get very scared and even kill someone because the boy tries to tell them all that there is no beast. The ‘little uns’ start to think of the beast in a weird way like, they think that the beast could arise from the sea and fall asleep on the platform from the effort of this revelation.

The boys’ psychological fears terrorize them, threatening their survival and causes them to become violent to each other. When the plane crashes, it is implied that for the first time in their lives, the boys are alone and afraid. They do not understand the internal fear and they project it into a physical fear, the beast. Early on as Piggy translates for a littlun,“‘ Now he says it was a beastie.’ ‘Beastie?’ ‘ A snake-thing. Ever so big.He saw it” (34). This idea becomes rooted into the other boys and they develop a fear of this ‘beast’ that takes on multiple figures as the novel progresses, consequently causing a threat to their own survival as they murder Simon thinking he was the so called ‘beast’. Golding writes, “ At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There was no words, and no movements but